Regional fund Austria, St. Pölten
Run by Land Niederösterreich, Abteilung Kunst und Kultur (Lower Austria regional government, arts and culture department)
Lower Austria pays four filmmakers EUR 6,000 each for a year of idea and story work: research, treatment, storyboard, shooting concept or screenplay, in any genre. Applications are a form, a project description and a work plan, sent by email in May.
Grant, €6,000Open to writers in AustriaA writer alone
Next dates not yet published
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Its site names no past recipients or funded projects. It is listed because applying is free.
The fund opens once a year. The next cycle's dates are not yet published; we add them when they are. The 2026 window ran May 1 to 31, 2026; a 2027 call was not yet published.
BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
For the stage before a project can even apply for development: a few months of paid time to turn a rough idea into a treatment or concept.
BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
The federal arts ministry's screenplay stipend for the independent, low-budget end of Austrian cinema: features whose production the same department might later fund.
ÖFI, Österreichisches Filminstitut (Austrian Film Institute)
The selective production round of the Austrian Film Institute, where the finished screenplay, cast and budget go in together.
BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
Production grants for the small, uncommercial film that the ÖFI would not fund: shorts, experimental and avant-garde work, documentaries and features under EUR 750,000.
Artist Trust
Two Washington artists a year receive USD 25,000 for pushing at the edges of their field, with no project report attached.
Illinois Arts Council
Illinois pays working artists USD 10,000 by lottery rather than by jury: show an active practice with two work samples and the state lottery draws the winners region by region.
Artist Trust
Washington State's merit award for working artists: USD 10,000 with no strings, judged on the body of work rather than a project.
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.