AFS Grant
Austin Film Society
Texas filmmakers have their own state fund: cash for features and shorts in production or post, with camera and finishing packages on top.
up to$20kGrantbetween rounds
Stage 4 of 5
Post-production and completion funding
Money to finish a film that has been shot: the edit, sound, music, colour and deliverables. Documentary makers and first features lean on these most. The application usually wants a rough cut.
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Nothing matches. Try another stage, or leave the country on "any country": international funds are listed under every country they are open to.
BPM Open Call
Black Public Media
Public television's fund for Black nonfiction stories runs one call a year: five projects get USD 20,000 and a place at PitchBLACK, where one leaves with up to USD 150,000 of production…
range$150kInvestmentbetween rounds
Media Fund and Shorts Fund
Pacific Islanders in Communications
Pacific Islander stories for public television, in two sizes: an hour or half-hour documentary with up to USD 65,000, or a short of any genre with up to USD 25,000, including…
up to$65kInvestmentpaused
Open Call
ITVS, Independent Television Service
The largest sums in American documentary funding come from public television's co-production arm, which has backed 659 films through this call.
up to$400kInvestmentpaused
Public Media Content Fund
Latino Public Broadcasting
Documentaries and limited series about Latino life for national public television, funded from first research through the final mix.
range$100kInvestmentbetween rounds
Building Bridges Documentary Fund
Center for Asian American Media, with the Doris Duke Foundation
Documentaries about American Muslim experience can draw real sums here, from USD 10,000 of research money to USD 100,000 for production or post.
range$100kGrantbetween rounds
Documentary Film Support
Perspective Fund
A private documentary funder that reads inquiries all year and writes checks of USD 25,000 to 150,000 without taking rights or credits below USD 150,000.
range$150kGrantany time
JustFilms
Ford Foundation
The foundation behind much of American social-issue documentary takes direct proposals from filmmakers through a periodic open call, scored on fit with Ford's justice themes…
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Roy W. Dean Grant
From the Heart Productions
Small cash, large bundle: the winner takes USD 3,500 and a package of donated post, music and consulting worth several times that, for a film meant to do some good.
range$3.5kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
SFFILM Documentary Film Fund
Post-production money for feature documentaries that are shot but not cut, from the San Francisco festival's foundation arm.
range$20kGrantbetween rounds
SFFILM Rainin Grant
SFFILM, with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation
One of the few American grants that pays a screenwriter directly to write, and it can also fund packaging or the edit of the same film later.
up to$25kGrantbetween rounds
Filmmaker Assistance Program (FAP)
National Film Board of Canada
Not cash for writing but help finishing a film: the NFB reimburses post-production bills or opens its own Montreal suites to independent English-language filmmakers.
up toCA$15kStipend or servicesbetween rounds
Production Program
Telefilm Canada
The main production financing for Canadian fiction features, sorted into windows by language and budget level.
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Theatrical Documentary Program
Telefilm Canada
Feature documentaries headed for cinemas have their own Telefilm program, separate from the fiction Production Program, with one intake each spring.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Alberta Made Screen Industries Program (Project Script Development Grant and Alberta Made Production Grant)
Alberta Media Fund, Government of Alberta
Alberta's provincial fund pays for scripts in three phases and then for smaller productions, both as grants with fixed intake windows twice a year.
up toCA$125kGrantcloses in 76 days
Film and Video Individual Project Funding
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Script or screenplay writing is named on the page as a phase this grant can pay for, which makes it one of the few provincial grants a screenwriter can take to the page stage alone.
up toCA$18kGrantcloses in 120 days
Programme d'aide a la production (Production Program)
SODEC, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (Québec)
Fiction features, shorts and one-off documentaries made in Québec apply here after development, in rounds spread through the year.
VariesGrant or repayablecloses in 17 days
Reel Focus BC Fund, Production Program
Creative BC
The province's own production grant, created in 2020 and now one round a year: up to CAD 200,000 for a BC-owned feature or documentary, with priority for emerging creators and systemically…
rangeCA$200kGrantbetween rounds
Concursos de fomento INCAA (INCAA funding contests)
INCAA, Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales (National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts)
Argentina has moved its public support into dollar-denominated contests with a few large prizes each.
up to$250kGrantcloses in 22 days
Producción audiovisual de largometrajes, Fondo Audiovisual (feature production line)
Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual (Chile's Ministry of Cultures)
The production side of Chile's audiovisual fund finances features in fiction, documentary and animation, from full financing of a modest fiction feature to a share of a majority…
up toCLP400MGrantbetween rounds
Convocatoria FDC, Estímulos por Concurso (Film Development Fund competitive grants)
Proimágenes Colombia, for the Fondo para el Desarrollo Cinematográfico and the CNACC
Funded by a levy on tickets and distribution, Colombia's FDC is the one national fund in the region with a plain screenwriting modality a writer can enter alone, beside development…
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Concurso Público FONPROCINE (Fund for Film Promotion public contest)
DGCINE, Dirección General de Cine (Dominican Republic's film directorate)
A small national fund with a clear yearly rhythm: one public contest each summer, DOP 17.5 million shared among about sixteen projects.
up toDOP7MGrantbetween rounds
FOCINE, Vertiente de Apoyo a la Producción (Mexican film support program, production strand)
IMCINE, Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (Mexican Film Institute)
Mexico's public film program pays for shooting and finishing rather than writing: nine production and post-production modalities open together each January, and a producer picks one.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Estímulos Económicos para la Actividad Cinematográfica y Audiovisual (economic stimulus contests for film)
Ministerio de Cultura del Perú, DAFO, Dirección del Audiovisual, la Fonografía y los Nuevos Medios
Peru runs a yearly set of contests rather than a standing fund: fiction, documentary, animation, shorts, films in post-production, minority co-productions and distribution, each with its…
up toPEN900kGrantbetween rounds
Fondo de Fomento Cinematográfico y Audiovisual and Programa Uruguay Audiovisual (film fund and national audiovisual program)
ACAU, Agencia del Cine y el Audiovisual del Uruguay (Uruguay's film and audiovisual agency)
Uruguay's agency groups its national money into a calendar of calls: script and project development, production of features, series and shorts, minority co-productions, plus the Programa…
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Completion Funding
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Money to finish an Irish feature or feature documentary that was shot without Screen Ireland and has reached a rough cut.
up to€100kRepayablebetween rounds
Filmske koprodukcije s manjinskim hrvatskim udjelom (minority co-productions)
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
Four deadlines through 2027 for foreign features, shorts, documentaries and animation seeking a Croatian partner.
VariesGrantcloses in 74 days
Proizvodnja filmova (film production)
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
Croatia's main production call, in two rounds a year with decisions in June and December.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Aide aux cinémas du monde (world cinema support)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, with the Institut français
The French door for filmmakers from anywhere else: a grant of up to EUR 300,000 for a feature co-produced with a French company, and a smaller sum to finish a film already shot.
up to€300kGrantcloses in 8 days
Produktion, Produktionsvorbereitung, Setzkasten und Paketförderung (production, pre-production and packages)
HessenFilm und Medien (Hessen film and media fund)
Everything after the script in Hessen: pre-production grants, a Setzkasten that bundles treatment, development and preparation, slate funding for small companies, and a production loan…
up to€1MGrant or repayablecloses in 23 days
Produktion, Projektentwicklung und Fertigstellung (production, project development and completion)
MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
Two committees split Hamburg's production money by budget, Director's Cut below EUR 2.5 million and High End above, with project development and completion lines alongside.
VariesRepayablecloses in 2 days
Spielfilm: Produktion und Pre-Production (feature film production and pre-production)
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia film and media foundation)
The production line of Germany's biggest regional fund, covering pre-production, the shoot, post, distribution and world sales.
VariesRepayablecloses in 18 days
WCF Europe
World Cinema Fund, Berlin International Film Festival, with Creative Europe MEDIA
WCF money for European producers, including those in Eastern Europe and the Balkans with little co-production funding at home, who partner with a filmmaker from the fund's regions.
up to€60kGrantbetween rounds
World Cinema Fund (WCF Classic)
World Cinema Fund, Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlinale's fund for features from regions without a working film industry: up to EUR 60,000 that must be spent in the film's home region, with a German producer as the formal recipient.
up to€60kGrantbetween rounds
Konkursi për subvencionimin e projekteve filmike (film project subsidy call: screenplay writing, project development, production)
Qendra Kinematografike e Kosovës, QKK (Kosovo Cinematography Center)
Kosovo's yearly call has 14 categories, and two pay for writing: screenplay support for a feature (fiction or animated) and, new in 2026, for a television series, beside a project…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
HBF+Europe: Post-production Support
Hubert Bals Fund, International Film Festival Rotterdam, with Creative Europe MEDIA
Finishing money for co-productions that reached the edit, from the Rotterdam fund's European strand. Thirteen films since 2023, one of them the Tiger Award winner of 2026.
up to€60kGrantbetween rounds
IDFA Bertha Fund Classic (IBF Classic)
IDFA Bertha Fund, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
A documentary development grant the director applies for alone, with research, writing and a teaser all allowed costs, from the fund of the world's largest documentary festival.
up to€25kGrantcloses in 101 days
IDFA Bertha Fund Europe: Minority Co-production Support (IBF Europe)
IDFA Bertha Fund, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, with Creative Europe MEDIA
The European side of the IDFA Bertha Fund: a minority producer in Europe brings a documentary from the global South to the finish.
up to€40kGrantcloses in 75 days
Filmfoerderung (documentary film funding)
Ernst Goehner Stiftung
A Swiss family foundation that will pay for the development of a documentary, not just its shoot or finish, as long as the subject is Swiss and the first release is in Switzerland.
VariesGrantany time
השקעה בהפקת סרטי עלילה באורך מלא (investment in feature film production)
Israel Film Fund (קרן הקולנוע הישראלי)
Israel's largest film fund puts up to ILS 3.5 million into a feature as a recoupable investment, with a lower ILS 1.5 million track for first and second films.
range₪3.5MInvestmentbetween rounds
NFCT development, production and post-production grants (documentary)
New Fund for Cinema and TV (הקרן החדשה לקולנוע וטלוויזיה)
The documentary fund of Israel's non-profit sector, backing feature-length documentaries at development, production or post-production, with several reading rounds a year.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
מסלולי ההשקעה של קרן גשר (Gesher Multicultural Film Fund investment tracks)
A ministry-supported fund that invests across fiction, documentary, shorts and drama series, with a development track for scripts, a production track and a completion track.
VariesInvestmentcloses in 3 days
פרוייקט הקולנוע הישראלי (the Israel Cinema Project)
Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
A foundation-run fund supported by the culture ministry, with separate submissions for script and project development, production and completion of features, plus documentary and student…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
The Jordan Film Fund (JFF)
The Royal Film Commission, Jordan
Jordan's national fund, run on Royal Film Commission money since 2011, pays for developing, shooting, finishing and releasing Jordanian features and documentaries, Arab features as…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
AFAC Cinema grants
AFAC, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
The main independent fund for Arab fiction features, and one a director can apply to alone with a development ask of up to USD 10,000; up to 30 percent of any grant may pay the director's…
up to$50kGrantbetween rounds
AFAC Documentary Film grants
AFAC, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
AFAC's documentary strand runs on the spring call, two months ahead of the fiction one, with the same ceilings: USD 10,000 to develop a feature documentary, up to 50,000 to shoot it.
up to$50kGrantbetween rounds
Production Awards (cinema)
Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy)
A first-film grant for young Arab directors, paid for the production or finishing of a short, medium or feature film, fiction or documentary.
up to€13kGrantbetween rounds
Soutien à la production nationale: avance sur recettes et contribution à l'écriture (national production support: advance on receipts and writing contribution)
CCM, Centre Cinématographique Marocain (Moroccan Cinema Center)
Morocco finances its cinema through an advance on receipts paid to production companies before or after the shoot, three sessions a year, plus a contribution to writing and rewriting…
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Doha Film Institute Grants Programme
A rare worldwide grant for a first or second feature at the development stage, with real money behind it: up to USD 20,000 to write and package a narrative feature, more later for…
up to$100kGrantbetween rounds
Red Sea Fund
Red Sea Film Foundation
A young fund with deep pockets covering the Arab world, Africa and Asia, with a development window each May for features and series.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Dana Kandungan Kreatif, DKK (Creative Content Fund)
FINAS, Perbadanan Kemajuan Filem Nasional Malaysia (National Film Development Corporation Malaysia)
Malaysia's national film body channels its grants through the Creative Content Fund, which in its current form pays licensed companies for micro drama and Borneo TV production…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Documentary Production Program
Screen Australia
Three lanes for documentary production: Producer First for films still closing finance, Platform First for commissioned programs, and Direct-to-Audience for work released on YouTube…
up toA$500kInvestmentcloses in 95 days
First Nations Feature Production Fund
Screen Australia, First Nations Department
Production and post-production investment for low-budget features written and directed by First Nations filmmakers.
VariesInvestmentany time
Production Fund (Production Finance Fund and Regional Filming Fund)
Screen NSW
The state's production money is a grant, not equity: Screen NSW cash-flows it and the producer keeps ownership.
up toA$1.1MGrantcloses in 22 days
Feature Film Finishing Grant
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
Finishing money for low-budget New Zealand features made outside the commission's production funding: grading, sound, effects polish and festival costs, once a festival has said yes.
up toNZ$60kGrantany time
Feature Film Production Investment
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
The commission's main production money for features with significant New Zealand content, as equity up to NZD 2.5 million or a grant up to NZD 500,000, decided by the board five times a…
up toNZ$2.5MGrant or repayablecloses in 8 days
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