Stoffentwicklung, Projektentwicklung und Produktion (script development, project development and production)

The money

Amount

Up to €30,000Script development: a loan that should not exceed EUR 30,000 for a company or EUR 25,000 for a writer or director, covering only writer, dramaturg and producer fees. Project development up to EUR 100,000. Production as a loan within 50 percent of costs; talent features usually EUR 300,000; shorts and the pilot program as grants.

What it is

RepayableA loan, an advance on receipts or a conditionally repayable grant: it is paid back only out of what the film earns.

To apply

Free

Who can apply

Applicant

A writer alone or a production company

Where you write

In Germany

Rules

Production companies, and for script development also writers and directors. The project must promise a cultural and economic effect in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt or Thuringia; production money should be spent there and the premiere held there.

Stages

Writing, development and production

Formats

Feature, Series, Documentary, Animation, Short

Language of the application

German

When to apply

The fund works in fixed rounds. The next dates are not yet published; we add them when they are. The 2026 to 2027 table on the funding page lists submissions with consultation and committee dates (among them January 13, 2027), but its columns could not be read reliably; check the page.