Regional fund Austria, Linz
Run by Land Oberösterreich, Direktion Kultur und Gesellschaft (Upper Austria regional government, culture department)
Upper Austria funds development, production or release of artistic films by people who live in the state, with a treatment and synopsis enough to apply. Four commission dates a year for bigger sums, two for small ones, and a residence of the writer alone qualifies the project.
Grant, amount not statedOpen to writers in AustriaA writer alone or a production company
Next deadline Nov 30, 2026 (closes in 29 days)
That closing date has passed. We check the funder's page every day and add the next dates once they are published.
Its site names no past recipients or funded projects. It is listed because applying is free.
The next closing date is Nov 30, 2026. The dates below are the current cycle's, as the funder states them. Smaller requests close on March 30 and September 15 each year; results follow an approval process after the commission sits.
| Round | Closes |
|---|---|
| Requests above EUR 15,000 | Nov 30, 2026 |
| Requests above EUR 15,000 | Feb 28, 2027 |
| Requests above EUR 15,000 | Apr 30, 2027 |
| Requests above EUR 15,000 | Sep 5, 2027 |
Dates are as the funder states them. Check the time of day and the time zone on the official page.
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
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…