Regional fund Norway, Bergen
Western and southern Norway's media fund, mixing earmarked state grants with a private investment arm that reports a 7.8 percent return. Writers meet it through a producer's slate: the framework grants give companies NOK 200,000 per project to develop cinema films, drama series and documentary series, two or three at a time.
Grant or repayable, amount not statedOpen to writers in NorwayA production company
Applications taken any time
That closing date has passed. We check the funder's page every day and add the next dates once they are published.
Applications are taken at any time; decisions follow in the fund's own rhythm. Applications are handled continuously and all go to the board; submit at least six weeks before a board meeting.
A production adviser to talk to before applying, and the RegPortal application system.
Kulturdirektoratet (Arts Council Norway) on behalf of Fond for lyd og bilde
A rights holders' fund, financed as compensation for private copying, that pays for short films, documentaries, music videos, art film and text work tied to film projects.
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
The documentary twin of NFI's fiction script grant: a single payment of NOK 100,000 or 150,000 to a writer or director for the idea and script stage of a documentary.
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
Fixed sums paid straight to the writer to take a feature or series from idea to treatment and on to a revised first draft, with no producer required.
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
NFI's low budget talent program for first long films and series, in fiction, documentary and hybrid form.
Artist Trust
Small, fast and plentiful: 65 Washington artists a year receive USD 2,500 toward a specific project, from research travel to a first draft.
ITVS, Independent Television Service
ITVS's development door, replacing its earlier diversity development fund: a small first payment to shape a nonfiction feature or web series for PBS streaming, with a few months of…
Latino Public Broadcasting
Documentaries and limited series about Latino life for national public television, funded from first research through the final mix.
Film Independent, with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Science on screen pays here: three cash grants a year for fiction projects about scientists or technology, awarded inside Film Independent's Episodic Lab, Producing Lab and Fast Track…