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 3 of 5
Film and series production funding
The money that gets a film or series shot. It goes to a production company, as a grant, a repayable advance or an investment, and the application is a full package: script, budget, finance plan, director and producer. Listed here because the writer is usually part of that package, and because the same fund often runs the writing scheme above it.
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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.
Minnesota Film Production Grant
Jerome Foundation
The Minnesota twin of Jerome's New York City grant: up to USD 30,000 of production money for early career directors who take creative risks, applied for in two steps each fall.
up to$30kGrantcloses in 23 days
New York City Film Production Grant
Jerome Foundation
A production grant for New York City directors near the start of their careers, in any moving-image form from animation to documentary.
up to$30kGrantcloses in 23 days
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
Creative Shorts Fellowship
Vision Maker Media
A short film with a mentor attached: Vision Maker Media pays up to USD 25,000 to an emerging Native filmmaker to shoot and finish a documentary, drama, animated or experimental short, and…
up to$25kGrantbetween 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
Creative Capital Award
Creative Capital Foundation
Film sits beside visual art, dance and literature in this national open call, which gives individual artists up to USD 50,000 to make a new work and keeps advising them afterward.
up to$50kGrantbetween 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
IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund
International Documentary Association, with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
A production fund for documentaries built on reporting, created in 2017 as an answer to misinformation.
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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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New Filmmaker Program equipment grant
Panavision
No cash changes hands, but a camera package from the house that shot most of Hollywood can be the biggest line in a first film's budget.
StipendStipend or servicesany time
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
CMF Indigenous Development, Predevelopment and Production Programs (administered by the ISO)
Indigenous Screen Office with the Canada Media Fund
The Canada Media Fund's Indigenous money is handed to the Indigenous Screen Office to run, with higher contribution rates than the general programs: up to 84 percent of a predevelopment…
up toCA$750kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Explore and Create: Artistic Creation
Canada Council for the Arts
Since 2026 the Council's Artistic Creation grant stands in for two retired components, Concept to Realization and Research and Creation, and it is the arts council route for a screenwriter…
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Indigenous Funding streams
Telefilm Canada
Three ring-fenced streams inside Telefilm's feature programs: development, production and a Talent to Watch component for a first micro-budget feature.
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POV Program
Canada Media Fund
Single, authored documentaries have a selective CMF round of their own, in English and in French, each spring.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween 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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Production Program for All (ISO Story Fund)
Indigenous Screen Office
Shorts, pilots, web series, features and broadcast series can all come to this autumn round, and an individual may apply without a company.
up toCA$750kGrantcloses in 24 days
Production Program for Features and Series (ISO Story Fund)
Indigenous Screen Office
The larger of the ISO's two production rounds, for Indigenous companies with budgets above a million dollars.
up toCA$750kGrantbetween rounds
Program for Black and Racialized Communities (Production)
Canada Media Fund
A selective CMF round reserved for Black-owned companies and companies owned by people of colour, covering series production in both official languages.
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Talent to Watch Program
Telefilm Canada
First features on budgets under half a million dollars get most or all of their financing here, with no repayment.
up toCA$250kGrantbetween rounds
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 Television Development Grant and Feature Film and TV Production Grant
Creative Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan funds first drafts, final drafts and company slates as grants that only become repayable if the film is shot elsewhere.
up toCA$40kGrantbetween rounds
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
Independent Artists program (Creation grants)
SK Arts (Saskatchewan Arts Board)
Writing a script is an eligible creation project in Saskatchewan when the filmmaker who will direct it is the applicant; the guidelines use exactly that case as an example.
up toCA$18kGrantcloses in 134 days
IP Fund, Linear Content stream
Ontario Creates
Ontario replaced its Film Fund with this stream in 2026: non-repayable money for development and production of features and digital series made in the province.
rangeCA$400kGrantbetween rounds
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.
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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
Alter-Ciné Foundation documentary film grants
A small Montreal foundation, named for the documentary maker Yvan Patry, that has given about 90 grants since 2001 to filmmakers from the global South making documentaries about rights and…
rangeCA$10kGrantcloses in 287 days
Cogeco TV Production Program
Independent Production Fund (IPF), funded by Cogeco Communications
Equity for scripted television series that already have a Canadian broadcaster, from the fund Cogeco finances through the IPF.
rangeCA$250kInvestmentbetween rounds
Film Production Assistance Program
Quebecor Fund (Fonds Québecor)
A top-up to the distributor's advance for French-language Canadian features, paid through the distributor and repaid from the film's returns, with extra money for an online marketing plan.
up toCA$200kRepayablecloses in 79 days
Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund
Hot Docs with the Slaight Family Foundation
A niche documentary fund founded in 2020 for films about music and musicians, Canadian or seen through Canadian eyes, paying a handful of projects each year.
rangeCA$60kGrantbetween rounds
Production Program
Bell Fund
Series production money from one of Canada's certified independent production funds, triggered by a broadcaster or streamer commitment.
up toCA$250kGrantcloses in 31 days
Rocket Fund (Shaw Rocket Fund)
Canada's dedicated children's media fund, backer of more than a thousand programs, has paused its funding programs while it waits for new contributions.
VariesGrant or repayablepaused
Rogers Documentary Fund
Rogers Group of Funds
Since 1996 this fund has topped up the financing of Canadian documentaries once a platform has licensed them, with no recoupment and a cap of CAD 100,000.
up toCA$100kGrantbetween rounds
Rogers Series Fund
Rogers Group of Funds
Independently produced Canadian series with a private broadcaster and a streamer both on board can draw up to half a million dollars here, as a grant below CAD 350,000 and as equity above…
up toCA$500kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Short Form Series Development Program
Independent Production Fund (IPF)
Scripted short-form series, meaning web and digital-first fiction, are the whole point here. The development advance pays for scripts, a bible, an audience plan and a proof-of-concept shoot.
up toCA$30kRepayablebetween rounds
TELUS Fund development, production and post-launch financing
Here the subject matters as much as the script: a feature, series or web series only qualifies when well-being, health or living conditions drive the story, and a Canadian health…
up toCA$25kRepayablebetween rounds
TELUS STORYHIVE
TELUS (TELUS Local Content)
A cable company's community fund for people in British Columbia and Alberta who have never worked in broadcasting: grants of CAD 10,000 to 20,000 for a short documentary series, a digital…
rangeCA$20kGrantcloses in 39 days
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
Fundo Setorial do Audiovisual, FSA (Audiovisual Sector Fund)
ANCINE, Agência Nacional do Cinema, with BRDE as the fund's financial agent
Brazil's main public money for film and series is an investment fund run through a development bank, and it reaches writers only through an independent production company.
VariesInvestmentbetween rounds
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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Authored Works
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
The largest of the Arts Council's film awards, for a feature-length film driven by its author's vision rather than a market.
up to€230kGrantbetween rounds
Film Project Award
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
The Arts Council's project grant for film as an art form, open to an individual filmmaker as much as to a company, with a ceiling of ninety thousand euro.
up to€90kGrantbetween rounds
Production Loans (fiction, documentary, TV drama, animation)
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Screen Ireland's production money across four schemes, each a loan to an Irish company for a project led by Irish talent and mostly in English or Irish.
up to€950kRepayablebetween rounds
Reel Art
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
A documentary grant with an unusual brief: imaginative, experimental films about the arts, made for cinemas and judged as artworks. Individual filmmakers may apply directly.
up to€120kGrantbetween rounds
Short film schemes (Focus Shorts and Frameworks)
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann, Frameworks with RTÉ
Fully funded shorts for Irish teams: live action through Focus Shorts, animation through Frameworks with RTÉ as co-funder and broadcaster.
up to€73kGrantbetween rounds
BFI Doc Society Fund: features development and production
Doc Society for the BFI (British Film Institute), National Lottery
The UK's National Lottery money for feature documentaries, run by Doc Society.
range£150kGrantcloses in 50 days
BFI Filmmaking Fund: Discovery and Impact feature funding
BFI (British Film Institute), National Lottery
Production money for British features in two strands split by budget and by the director's experience.
up to£1.3MGrant or repayablecloses in 45 days
Made of Truth (BFI Doc Society short film fund)
Doc Society for BFI NETWORK (British Film Institute), National Lottery
A yearly grant for short documentaries by UK filmmakers at the start of their careers, in live action or animation.
up to£25kGrantbetween rounds
UK Global Screen Fund: International Co-production
BFI (British Film Institute) for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Government money, administered by the BFI, for UK companies joining international co-productions as the smaller partner.
up to£300kGrantcloses in 23 days
BFI NETWORK England short film funding
BFI NETWORK (British Film Institute), National Lottery
Grants for fictional shorts by filmmakers starting out in England, with the producer signing the application and the writer part of the team.
range£25kGrantbetween rounds
Feature Film Production
Ffilm Cymru Wales, National Lottery via Arts Council of Wales and Welsh Government via Creative Wales
Production investment for Welsh-led features heading for cinemas, normally capped at half the budget.
up to£600kInvestmentcloses in 3 days
Film Development and Production Fund
Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland), National Lottery and Scottish Government
Scotland's main film fund, in two routes.
range£500kGrant or repayableany time
Green Lit (Northern Ireland Screen and BBC Northern Ireland drama initiative)
Northern Ireland Screen with BBC Northern Ireland
A broadcaster-backed pipeline for emerging Northern Irish drama talent: six outlines win development money, three become standalone scripted films for BBC One Northern Ireland and iPlayer…
up to£10kGrantbetween rounds
Irish Language Broadcast Fund (Ciste Craoltóireachta Gaeilge)
Northern Ireland Screen
Northern Ireland's fund for television made in Irish, across every genre, with the broadcaster usually matching development money and the fund investing up to four hundred thousand pounds…
up to£400kInvestmentbetween rounds
Northern Ireland Screen Fund (production)
Gap finance for feature films, television drama, animation, factual and interactive projects shooting in Northern Ireland, offered once most of the budget is already committed.
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Short film schemes (Short Film Call, Creative Animation, New Shorts Focus)
Northern Ireland Screen, with Arts Council of Northern Ireland and BFI NETWORK lottery funds
Three short film schemes under one roof for Northern Ireland talent: a production call for live action, factual and VR shorts, an animation scheme run through local studios, and a…
up to£40kGrantbetween rounds
Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund
Northern Ireland Screen
Content money for programs and short digital work in or about Ulster-Scots culture and language, run by Northern Ireland Screen with BBC Northern Ireland as its main partner.
up to£40kGrant or repayableany time
Herstellung (production funding)
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.
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Herstellung innovativer Filme (production of innovative films)
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.
up to€120kGrantcloses in 91 days
Filmförderung des Landes Niederösterreich (Lower Austria film funding: artistic film and cinema production)
Land Niederösterreich, Abteilung Kunst und Kultur (Lower Austria regional government, arts and culture department)
A state fund in two parts: grants for commercially difficult artistic films by Lower Austrians, taken year-round, and top-up grants for cinema features and documentaries that shoot in the…
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Herstellungsförderung (production funding)
Cinestyria Filmcommission and Fonds, Land Steiermark (Styria regional government, run by Steirische Tourismusmarketing)
Styria's fund pays producers to shoot stories set in the region, from Steirerkrimis television films to features such as Vier minus drei, as long as the money comes back as regional…
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Oberösterreichische Filmförderung (Upper Austria cultural film funding)
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.
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Aide au développement et aide à la production, longs métrages et courts métrages (development and production aid)
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
The producer stages of the Walloon-Brussels film commission: development money of EUR 15,000 to EUR 60,000, then production grants that reach half a million euros for a feature from the…
range€500kGrantbetween rounds
Aides aux documentaires de création (creative documentary aid: writing, development, production)
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
A full ladder for documentary in French-speaking Belgium, from EUR 10,000 to write a film through development to production grants that top out at EUR 120,000 for a series.
up to€120kGrantbetween rounds
Commission Séries: aide à l'écriture, au développement et à la production (series commission)
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Series money in French-speaking Belgium flows only once a broadcaster has signed, and then it is generous: EUR 25,000 to start the writers' room, EUR 150,000 to develop and EUR 600,000 to…
up to€600kGrantbetween rounds
Ontwikkelings- en productiesteun, VAF/Filmfonds (development and production support)
VAF, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (Flanders Audiovisual Fund)
Once a Flemish script has a producer, this is where it grows: development money of which at least EUR 35,000 of the top tier must go to further writing, then production grants that reach…
range€1MGrantcloses in 16 days
VAF/Mediafonds: scenario-, ontwikkelings- en productiesteun voor series (series support)
VAF, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (Flanders Audiovisual Fund)
The Flemish fund's television arm, where a series can start with up to EUR 25,000 of script money before any channel signs on, and climb to EUR 1.3 million for a high-end production.
up to€1.3MGrantcloses in 11 days
screen.brussels fund (Brussels co-production fund)
screen.brussels, the Brussels-Capital Region's audiovisual fund
Brussels backs films and series that spend money in the city, up to EUR 500,000 repaid from receipts.
up to€500kRepayablecloses in 82 days
Wallimage Coproductions and Wallimpact (production and development financing)
Wallimage, the economic film and games fund of Wallonia
An economic fund, so the question is Walloon spend rather than cultural fit, but its Wallimpact line pays producers EUR 50,000 to EUR 100,000 for scriptwriting and development, repaid only…
range€100kRepayablebetween rounds
Konkurs za sufinansiranje filmskih projekata (co-financing of film projects: screenplay development, production, minority co-productions)
Fondacija za kinematografiju Sarajevo (Cinematography Foundation, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Bosnia's federal film foundation runs one call a year that bundles everything, from a small screenplay development line a writer can claim as a natural person (BAM 3,000 to 6,000) to…
rangeBAM600kGrantbetween rounds
Финансиране на български филми (funding of Bulgarian films: screenplay writing and project development, pre-production, production)
Национален филмов център, НФЦ (Bulgarian National Film Center)
Bulgaria runs two general sessions a year for feature projects, plus one for co-productions with the national broadcaster BNT.
VariesGrantbetween 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.
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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
Výroba celovečerního hraného filmu (feature fiction film production)
Státní fond audiovize (Czech Audiovisual Fund)
The Czech fund's main production pot, CZK 80 million in this round, open until November 2, 2026.
VariesGrantcloses tomorrow
Dokumentar og kort fiktion, Konsulentordningen (documentary and short fiction consultant scheme)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
The artistic track for Danish documentaries and short fiction, including an idea stage for documentaries that only the director needs to sign.
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New Danish Screen
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
Debut long films made cheaply, with the talent's voice as the point. A producer and director apply together; a screenwriter joins that team rather than applying alone.
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Public Service Puljen (public service pool)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
Denmark's money for drama series, documentary series and audio made for commercial broadcasters and streamers rather than DR. Development support can pay for scripts, research, casting and…
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Spillefilm, Konsulentordningen (feature film consultant scheme)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
Denmark's main route for features judged on their artistic merit.
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Spillefilm, Markedsordningen (feature film market scheme)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
For Danish features expected to draw a larger cinema audience than the national average.
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Den Vestdanske Filmpulje (West Danish Film Fund)
Western Denmark's regional fund for features, series, documentaries and animated shorts at development and production stage.
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FilmFyn
The film fund for Funen and its islands, paying development and production money to features, documentaries and drama series that shoot or hire on the island.
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Audiovisuaalse kunsti sihtkapital (Endowment for Audiovisual Arts)
Eesti Kultuurkapital (Cultural Endowment of Estonia)
Estonia's second film funder, financed by excise taxes and run as an endowment with four deadlines a year.
up to€200kGrantcloses in 19 days
Dokumentaalfilmi arendus ja tootmine (documentary development and production)
Eesti Filmi Instituut (Estonian Film Institute)
One pair of rounds a year covers both stages of an Estonian documentary: up to EUR 25,000 to develop and up to EUR 200,000 to produce.
up to€200kGrantbetween rounds
Täispika mängufilmi tootmine (feature film production)
Eesti Filmi Instituut (Estonian Film Institute)
The institute's largest grant, up to EUR 900,000 for an Estonian fiction feature, with two rounds a year and the next closing December 8, 2026.
up to€900kGrantcloses in 37 days
AVEK käsikirjoitustuki ja kohdeapuraha (script grant and target grant for individuals)
AVEK, Audiovisuaalisen kulttuurin edistämiskeskus (Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture), part of Kopiosto
Small, fast and personal: AVEK pays a writer EUR 3,500 to plan and write a documentary, short fiction, short animation or media art piece, with no company and no deadline.
range€7kGrantany time
AVEK tuki yrityksille (company support for development and production)
AVEK, Audiovisuaalisen kulttuurin edistämiskeskus (Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture), part of Kopiosto
For production companies making documentaries, shorts, short animation and media art, with the emphasis on early content development but room to fund later stages or a whole small…
up to€15kGrantany time
Tuotantotuki (production support)
Suomen elokuvasäätiö (Finnish Film Foundation)
The Finnish Film Foundation's main production grant, up to EUR 1.2 million for features, shorts, documentaries, animation and documentary or animation series.
up to€1.2MGrantcloses in 72 days
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
Aide avant réalisation à la production de films de court métrage (short film production aid before shooting)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
The CNC's main selective money for shorts, read by two committees so that a first film is not weighed against seasoned directors.
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Avance sur recettes avant réalisation (advance on receipts before production)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
The oldest selective aid in French cinema, created in 1960, and still the one that gets first features financed.
VariesRepayablebetween rounds
Fonds Images de la diversité (Images of Diversity fund)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, with the Agence nationale de la cohésion des territoires
A fund for stories about the France that mainstream screens miss, reformed in April 2026.
from€10kGrantcloses in 64 days
Fonds de soutien à la création et à la production pour le cinéma et l'audiovisuel (film and audiovisual support fund)
Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, run with ALCA (the regional book, film and audiovisual agency)
One of the biggest regional funds in France, covering writing, development and production for cinema and television across six genre committees.
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Fonds de soutien cinéma et audiovisuel, aide à la production (production support fund)
Région Île-de-France
The region around Paris puts more than EUR 16 million a year into features and a similar effort into series, as grants rather than advances.
up to€600kGrantcloses in 66 days
Aide à la Création (creation award)
Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma (corporate foundation of the insurer Gan)
A private foundation that has backed more than 260 first and second features since 1987, with a reading committee and a jury of professionals choosing four scripts a year.
up to€53kGrantcloses in 43 days
Aide au développement, Commissions Cinéma et Télévision (development aid)
Procirep and Angoa (French producers' collecting societies)
Money that French producers' own collecting societies put back into writing: around EUR 15 million a year across cinema and television.
up to€63kGrant or repayablecloses in 65 days
ფილმწარმოების დაფინანსების კონკურსი (feature film production funding competitions, 2026 to 2027)
საქართველოს ეროვნული კინოცენტრი (Georgian National Film Center)
Georgia funds features in short autumn windows of two weeks, one competition for debuts and one for established directors, each with GEL 3 million to split among four or five films.
up toGEL1MGrantbetween rounds
Jurybasierte Filmförderung für programmfüllende Filme (jury-based production funding for feature-length films)
FFA, Filmförderungsanstalt (German Federal Film Board)
Federal production grants for culturally ambitious fiction, documentary, children's and animated features, decided by a jury rather than by reference points.
up to€1MGrantcloses in 44 days
Talentfilm: Projektentwicklung und Produktion (talent film project development and production)
Kuratorium junger deutscher Film (foundation for young German film)
Where first and second films by German writers, directors and producers go for development and production money since the FFA handed talent films to the Kuratorium in January 2026.
up to€500kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Drehbuch- und Stoffentwicklung, Projektweiterentwicklung, Produktion (script development, project development, production)
nordmedia, Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen
Lower Saxony and Bremen's fund lets a writer apply for script development money alone, up to EUR 30,000, though the sum is a loan due if the film gets made.
up to€30kRepayablecloses in 74 days
Förderung Nachwuchs: Debütfilm und Kurzfilm (emerging talent: debut and short film)
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
A separate door for first and second features in Berlin-Brandenburg, with smaller sums and a grant option for low budgets.
up to€250kGrant or repayablecloses in 93 days
Produktion Kinofilm und Kinodokumentarfilm (feature and documentary production)
FFF Bayern, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (Bavarian film and television fund)
Bavaria's main production loan, up to three million euros, sitting behind the fund's script and development lines.
up to€3MRepayablecloses in 85 days
Produktion Kinofilme (feature film production)
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
The production loan behind many Berlin-shot features and documentaries. The script, a recoupment plan and proof of exploitation go in with the producer's application.
VariesRepayablecloses in 93 days
Produktion und Produktionsvorbereitung (production and pre-production)
MFG Baden-Württemberg, Filmförderung (Baden-Württemberg film fund)
Stuttgart's production loan for cinema and television films, with a pre-production line beside it. The fund's news names its films, from an animated NEINhorn to the Emmy-nominated Lenas Hof.
VariesRepayablecloses in 2 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
Stoffentwicklung, Projektentwicklung und Produktion (script development, project development and production)
MDM, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (central German media fund for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia)
Central Germany funds a writer's screenplay, series concept or storyworld with a loan of up to EUR 25,000, rising to EUR 30,000 through a company, then project development and production…
up to€30kRepayablebetween rounds
Stoffentwicklung, Projektentwicklung und Produktionsförderung (script development, project development and production)
MV Filmförderung (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern film fund)
A small northeastern fund with an unusual perk: script development is an outright grant of up to EUR 20,000, and a writer can apply with just a producer's letter.
up to€250kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
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
Βασικό Πρόγραμμα: Ανάπτυξη και Παραγωγή (Main Program: Development and Production)
EKKOMED, Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center (formerly the Greek Film Centre)
Greece's core development and production money, applied for by a producer with the writer's contract in the file.
up to€500kGrantcloses in 60 days
Inkubátor Program, gyártási pályázat (Incubator Program production call)
Nemzeti Filmintézet, NFI (National Film Institute Hungary)
First features on small budgets: Hungary's Incubator route turns a pitch-forum win into production money, up to HUF 135 million for a feature.
up toHUF135MGrantcloses in 71 days
Framleiðslustyrkir (production grants)
Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands (Icelandic Film Centre)
Iceland's production grants for features, shorts, documentaries and scripted television, issued first as a conditional commitment and then as a grant once the rest of the money is in place.
VariesGrantany time
Contributi selettivi per la produzione (selective production contributions)
Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Ministero della Cultura
The ministry's selective production pot in six categories, with EUR 7.5 million each for first and second features and for young authors' films, plus documentaries, shorts and animation on…
up to€1.2MGrantbetween rounds
Apulia Film Fund
Fondazione Apulia Film Commission (Regione Puglia)
One of Italy's larger regional production funds, five million euros a year for films, series, documentaries, animation and shorts that shoot in Puglia.
range€500kGrantcloses tomorrow
Film Fund (Trentino Film Commission)
Trentino Film Commission, Trentino Sviluppo (Provincia autonoma di Trento)
A production fund for works shot in Trentino, with the committee meeting about every three months and approved projects listed on the portal back to 2011.
up to€400kGrantpaused
Fondo Grandi Produzioni (large productions fund)
Regione Autonoma della Sardegna and Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission
Money for bigger films that bring a shoot to Sardinia, in three categories by budget size, with a documentary strand. The round was reopened in autumn 2026 for the remaining funds.
up to€338kGrantcloses in 8 days
Fondo per l'audiovisivo della Regione Emilia-Romagna (development and production calls)
Regione Emilia-Romagna, through Emilia-Romagna Film Commission
Since 2016 the region has funded development and production under its own film law, and it keeps a public catalogue of every supported work, with the development projects listed by company…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
FVG Film Fund (Friuli Venezia Giulia regional production fund)
Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, through Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission
A production fund scored on how much of the film happens in the region, with three closing dates a year and a ranking issued within 30 days of each.
up to€350kGrantbetween rounds
IDM Film Fund Südtirol Alto Adige (production, development and short film funding)
IDM Südtirol Alto Adige, Film Fund and Commission
Open to producers from any country, which is rare for a regional fund, as long as the shoot touches South Tyrol.
VariesGrantcloses in 72 days
Lazio Cinema International
Regione Lazio, through Lazio Innova
Lazio's fund for international co-productions shot in the region around Rome, meant to pull foreign partners toward local companies and to show the less visited parts of the region on…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Piemonte Doc Film Fund
Film Commission Torino Piemonte
The oldest Italian fund for documentary, running since 2007, with a development line that covers research, writing and a promo, and a production line for shooting and post in Piedmont.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Short Film Fund (Film Commission Torino Piemonte)
Film Commission Torino Piemonte, with Fondazione CRT
Production money for fiction, animated and experimental shorts up to 30 minutes shot in Piedmont, with at least four of six key crew roles filled locally and a stated plan for getting the…
VariesGrantbetween 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…
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Filmu māksla, regulārais projektu konkurss (film art, regular project competition)
Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds, VKKF (State Culture Capital Foundation)
Latvia's arts foundation runs three open competitions a year, with film as one sector.
VariesGrantcloses in 82 days
Konkurss jaunu filmu ražošanas atbalstam (new film production competition)
Nacionālais kino centrs (National Film Centre of Latvia)
The National Film Centre's main production competition for Latvian features, long documentaries and animated features, with about EUR 1.26 million to share in 2026 and a March deadline.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Filmų gamybos darbai (film production)
Lietuvos kino centras (Lithuanian Film Centre)
The production half of Lithuania's twice yearly state call, with categories from mini budget and debut features to documentary series, animation, interactive film and, in autumn 2026, big…
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Aide financière sélective à la production, AFS (selective production aid)
Film Fund Luxembourg (Fonds national de soutien à la production audiovisuelle)
The large end of Luxembourg's fund, where a feature or series can draw EUR 2.5 to 3 million against spending in the Grand Duchy.
up to€3MRepayablecloses in 36 days
Concursul proiectelor cinematografice (film project competition: project development and production)
Centrul Național al Cinematografiei (National Cinematography Center of Moldova)
Moldova's annual competition judges the screenplay first, then a pitch, then two scored stages, and publishes every list along the way, down to the sum each project asked for and received.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Javni konkursi za sufinansiranje kinematografskih djela (co-financing of cinematographic works)
Filmski centar Crne Gore (Film Centre of Montenegro)
Montenegro's centre describes an annual call in three parts, script development, project development and production, but the 2026 call opened only production categories: features with…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Realisering Speelfilm en Lange Animatiefilm (feature film production funding)
Nederlands Filmfonds (Netherlands Film Fund)
The Dutch fund's selective production grant for about twenty features a year, including five children's films and one or two long animations.
up to€1.2MGrantbetween rounds
HBF+Europe: Minority Co-production Support
Hubert Bals Fund, International Film Festival Rotterdam, with Creative Europe MEDIA
Production money that follows a European producer into a co-production with the global South. Only 25 percent of the grant needs spending in Europe; the rest can go where the film is made.
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
NPO-fonds: fictie, documentaire en Team-up voor beginnende scenaristen (public broadcasters' fund)
NPO-fonds (fund of the Dutch public broadcasters)
The money behind most Dutch public-television drama and documentary, applied for by the broadcaster rather than the maker.
VariesGrantcloses in 9 days
Конкурс за финансирање на проекти од национален интерес во филмската дејност (call for financing film projects of national interest)
Агенција за филм на Република Северна Македонија (North Macedonia Film Agency)
North Macedonia's one big call covers features, documentaries, animation and shorts, with debut features funded up to 90 percent of budget and capped at MKD 25 million.
up toMKD62MGrantbetween rounds
Fond for lyd og bilde, Film (Fund for Sound and Image, film scheme)
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.
VariesGrantcloses in 93 days
Produksjon av spillefilm etter kunstnerisk vurdering (feature film production, artistic assessment)
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
The main production grant for Norwegian features chosen on artistic grounds, with recent awards of NOK 7.5 million to 20 million.
up toNOK35MGrantbetween rounds
Filminvest, tilskudd og investering (grants and investment)
The investment and grant fund for central Norway, covering drama and documentary series, features and cinema documentaries.
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Filmkraft Rogaland, utvikling og produksjon (development and production grants)
The regional film centre for Rogaland, around Stavanger, paying development and production grants for shorts, long formats since 2024, and series, plus writing fees inside its audiovisual…
VariesGrantany time
Mediefondet Zefyr, tilskudd og investering (grants and investment)
Western and southern Norway's media fund, mixing earmarked state grants with a private investment arm that reports a 7.8 percent return.
VariesGrant or repayableany time
Nordisk Film & TV Fond, production funding
The pan Nordic top up for features, drama series and documentaries that already have national money and a second Nordic market lined up.
VariesRepayableany time
Sørfond
Norsk filminstitutt with Stiftelsen Festivalkontoret, financed by Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norway's fund for films from the developing world, aimed at freedom of expression and independent producers where both are under pressure.
up toNOK1MGrantbetween rounds
Fundusz Filmowy w Krakowie (Krakow Film Fund co-production competition)
Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe, KBF (Krakow Festival Office), for the City of Krakow
Krakow's city fund co-produces rather than grants: the festival office takes a stake and a share of rights in return for up to half the production cost.
VariesInvestmentbetween rounds
Konkurs Mazowieckiego i Warszawskiego Funduszu Filmowego (Mazovia and Warsaw Film Fund co-production competition)
Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury (Mazovian Institute of Culture), for the Mazovian Voivodeship and the City of Warsaw
Warsaw and its region put PLN 3.2 million a year into films shot or set there, entering as a co-producer rather than a grant-giver.
VariesInvestmentbetween rounds
Apoio ao Cinema: Produção (feature, short and documentary production support)
ICA, Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
One entry for the ICA's production calls: two rounds a year for fiction features, two for documentaries, one each for fiction and animated shorts, plus animation features and completion.
up to€700kGrantbetween rounds
Program 1, produkcia audiovizuálnych diel (production of audiovisual works)
Audiovizuálny fond (Slovak Audiovisual Fund)
Production financing for Slovak features, documentaries, animation and shorts, with a ceiling of EUR 1.2 million for a feature-length work. Grants can come paired with a loan.
up to€1.2MGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Sofinanciranje realizacije filmskih in avdiovizualnih projektov (production of fiction, documentary and animated projects)
Slovenski filmski center (Slovenian Film Centre)
The realization calls are where Slovenian features, documentaries and animation get made, usually opening around the turn of the year.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Ayudas a la producción de cortometrajes sobre proyecto (short film production aid)
ICAA, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Spanish Ministry of Culture)
State money for a short before the shoot, applied for by a Spanish production company with the script in hand.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Ayudas generales para la producción de largometrajes sobre proyecto (general feature production aid)
ICAA, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Spanish Ministry of Culture)
Spain's main production money, paid in advance to the producer against a project rather than a finished film, with a points system that weighs the company's track record.
up to€1MGrantbetween rounds
Ayudas selectivas para la producción de largometrajes sobre proyecto (selective feature production aid)
ICAA, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Spanish Ministry of Culture)
For the films the general aid overlooks: first features, documentaries, experimental and culturally driven projects, judged on the script and the team rather than box office history.
up to€800kGrantbetween rounds
Ayudas a la producción de largometrajes y de cortometrajes (feature and short production aid)
Comunidad de Madrid, Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deporte
Madrid's two production lines share a logic: the region backs films made by companies rooted there, and for shorts an individual with Madrid tax residence can apply alone.
up to€300kGrantbetween rounds
Subvenciones a la producción de largometrajes, documentales y otras obras audiovisuales en Andalucía (production grants)
Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales (Junta de Andalucía)
The largest Andalusian film budget to date, in three lines: first films by new directors that showcase regional talent, features that build the local industry, and documentaries.
up to€450kGrantbetween rounds
Subvencións á creación audiovisual para o desenvolvemento e a promoción do talento audiovisual galego (Galician talent grants)
AGADIC, Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (Xunta de Galicia)
The entry door for a new Galician filmmaker: an individual can apply alone for a short before shooting, with no company, and a producer can apply for a first feature.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Subvencións á produción e coprodución de proxectos audiovisuais galegos (Galician audiovisual production grants)
AGADIC, Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (Xunta de Galicia)
The main production pot for Galician film and series, with categories for theatrical features, minority international co-productions and works with a broadcaster or platform commitment.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Subvencions per a la producció de llargmetratges cinematogràfics (feature film production grants)
ICEC, Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Production money for fiction features in three tiers, from a culturally driven first film with a budget under EUR 1.8 million to a market-oriented picture above EUR 2.7 million.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Stöd till produktion av filmprojekt, lång spelfilm (production support, feature film)
Svenska Filminstitutet (Swedish Film Institute)
Advance production money for Swedish features, paid before the film is finished and repaid once the producer's revenues pass 135 percent of private capital plus license sales and minimum…
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Film i Skåne, utveckling och samproduktion (development and co-production)
Region Skåne's film company, where a screenwriter with a small firm can apply for feature development on their own, up to SEK 50,000 as a first step.
up toSEK50kInvestmentany time
Film i Väst, samproduktion (co-production investment)
Sweden's largest regional co-producer, with more than 1,600 features, series, documentaries and shorts since 1992.
VariesInvestmentany time
Film Stockholm, samproduktion och utvecklingsinvestering (co-production and development investment)
Film Stockholm AB
The capital region's film fund, which co-produces or makes a development investment in films, TV drama and other audiovisual work with a Stockholm footprint.
VariesInvestmentany time
Filmpool Nord, samproduktion (co-production)
Northern Sweden's co-producer for short fiction, documentary, features and TV drama, investing for rights and a share of returns.
VariesInvestmentany time
Selektive Filmförderung: Drehbuch, Projektentwicklung, Herstellung (federal selective film funding)
Bundesamt für Kultur, BAK / Office fédéral de la culture (Swiss Federal Office of Culture)
Switzerland's federal money, with a CHF 30,000 screenplay grant at the writing end and production grants that reach CHF 1.2 million.
up toCHF1.2MGrantcloses in 120 days
Aide sélective à la réalisation (selective production aid)
Cinéforom, Fondation romande pour le cinéma (the fund of French-speaking Switzerland)
The production money of French-speaking Switzerland, four sessions a year with 2027 dates already fixed.
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Berner Filmförderung: Entwicklungsförderung Stufe 1 und 2, Produktionsförderung (Bern film funding)
Kanton Bern, Amt für Kultur (canton of Bern)
A cantonal fund with a writer-first first step: a Bern author gets CHF 5,000 or CHF 10,000 to write a treatment, paid out as soon as it is granted, then up to CHF 30,000 for the script.
rangeCHF750kGrantbetween rounds
Zürcher Filmstiftung: Werkbeitrag, Projektentwicklung, Herstellung (Zurich Film Foundation)
Zürcher Filmstiftung (Zurich Film Foundation)
The richest regional fund in Switzerland treats the writer as an applicant in their own right: a CHF 30,000 stipend tied to the person rather than a project, and development money an…
up toCHF1MGrant or repayablecloses in 71 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
Конкурсний відбір кінопроєктів (competitive selection of film projects, pitching)
Державне агентство України з питань кіно, Держкіно (Ukrainian State Film Agency)
In peacetime this was Ukraine's main production pitching, scored by expert commissions and then pitched in public.
VariesGrantpaused
İlk Uzun Metrajlı Kurgu Film Yapım Desteği (first feature fiction film production support)
T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Sinema Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Directorate General of Cinema)
Turkey's debut production line lets the director apply directly, which most production schemes do not.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Uzun Metrajlı Sinema Film Yapım Desteği (feature film production support)
T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Sinema Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Directorate General of Cinema)
The ministry's main feature line funded 12 productions with TRY 115 million in its October 2026 decision.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
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.
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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…
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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…
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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
Aide à la production, long métrage (feature production aid)
FOPICA, Fonds de Promotion de l'Industrie Cinématographique et Audiovisuelle (Senegal)
The headline line of Senegal's fund: up to XOF 150 million toward a fiction or animated feature, paid out in four installments over a 24-month convention.
up toFCFA150MGrantbetween rounds
NFVF Production Funding
NFVF, National Film and Video Foundation (South Africa)
The production arm of South Africa's film foundation funds features, shorts, documentaries, TV movies and web series through registered companies, with a finished script and a finance plan…
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Film Production Financing Scheme and Financing Scheme 2.0
Hong Kong Film Development Council, Film Development Fund (Create Hong Kong)
Hong Kong co-finances commercial features as a government investor: Scheme 2.0 puts in 40 percent of a budget up to HKD 10 million for films costing HKD 8 to 25 million, the older scheme…
up toHK$10MInvestmentany time
日本映画製作支援事業 (Japanese film production support)
Japan Arts Council (独立行政法人日本芸術文化振興会), with the Agency for Cultural Affairs' arts promotion subsidy
Japan's state production subsidy for feature-length films, paid at fixed amounts that rise with the budget to JPY 60 million, with a smaller tier for young and emerging filmmakers.
range¥60MGrantcloses in 25 days
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…
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CreatePHFilms Funding Program
FDCP, Film Development Council of the Philippines
The Philippines' film council funds project development and production through CreatePHFilms, and its development fund names Filipino writers among those who may apply, with a concept…
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Media Talent Progression Programme, Content Grants
IMDA, Infocomm Media Development Authority, and the Singapore Film Commission
Singapore folded its old development and production assistance into content grants that pay for production of features and shorts with Singapore talent attached: up to SGD 300,000 for a…
up toSGD600kGrantbetween 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.
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Narrative Content Production
Screen Australia
Production finance for features, television and direct-to-audience drama, in two feature lanes: Market First for packages with distribution attached and Creative First for bolder films…
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Direct to Audience Production Program (Canberra Screen and Games Fund)
Screen Canberra, for the ACT Government
Grants for Canberra creators who publish their own short-form narrative, comedy, factual or animation online, with two local key creatives and no commission attached.
up toA$40kGrantcloses in 138 days
Documentary Production Fund
Screenwest
Production money for Western Australian documentary singles, series, features and large-format films that already have a market partner, matched against that partner's cash.
up toA$400kGrantcloses in 43 days
Online Production Grants
Screen Queensland
A rare production grant a solo writer-creator can hold alone: episodic series for YouTube, TikTok or Instagram, or one-off XR, with no IP taken and marketing costs allowed.
rangeA$100kGrantbetween rounds
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
Screen Finance Fund
Screen Queensland
Production finance for features, series and documentaries that spend in Queensland, scaled to that spend.
up toA$850kGrant or repayableany time
Screen Production Fund
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC)
South Australia's main production money, sized at up to a tenth of what a project spends in the state and open all year.
VariesGrantany time
Screenability Filmmakers Fund
Screen NSW
A short-film production fund for New South Wales teams led or co-led by a filmmaker with a disability.
VariesGrantpaused
Scripted Production Fund
Screenwest
Grant finance of up to AUD 700,000 for features and series shot in Western Australia with a buyer already attached.
up toA$700kGrantcloses in 85 days
Short Film Fund
Screen Queensland
Grants of up to AUD 50,000 for 5 to 15 minute shorts aimed at cinema screens, with a polished screenplay required at application and no treatments accepted.
up toA$50kGrantbetween rounds
TV and Film Production Program (Canberra Screen and Games Fund)
Screen Canberra, for the ACT Government
Canberra's production grant for scripted and unscripted work with a confirmed path to audience, from a commercial half hour upward, paying up to AUD 300,000 without recoupment.
up toA$300kGrant or repayablecloses in 138 days
Victorian Production Fund, Screen
VicScreen
Production investment tied to how much a film or series spends in Victoria: between 3 and 10 percent of that spend, cash-flowed into the production while the producer keeps the equity.
up toA$500kInvestmentany time
Diverse Content funding rounds (Ngahau, Whāngai, Kura Pounamu, Mōhiohio, Reo Māori Content Co-Fund)
Te Māngai Pāho (Māori Broadcasting Funding Agency)
The Māori broadcasting agency funds te reo Māori content by language level rather than platform, through themed rounds: Ngahau for entertainment, Whāngai for learners, Mōhiohio for factual…
VariesGrantcloses in 32 days
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
He Kauahi, Catalyst Short Film Funding
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
The commission's short film grant, up to NZD 90,000 for narrative shorts with festival prospects, judged on talent development, critical potential and innovation.
up toNZ$90kGrantbetween rounds
He Pounamu Te Reo Māori Feature Film Production Investment
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
A dedicated production lane for dramatic features told in te reo Māori and led by Māori filmmakers, on the same money terms and calendar as the commission's general feature investment.
up toNZ$2.5MGrant or repayablecloses in 8 days
Scripted and Non-fiction funding (Creation stream)
Irirangi Te Motu, NZ On Air
New Zealand's public media fund backs local television, on-demand and online content through three rounds a year, and sets aside about NZD 1 million of it for content development, mostly…
rangeNZ$50kGrantcloses in 88 days
TV and Online Content (CREA-MEDIA-2027-TVONLINE)
Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission
Series and television films draw their EU production money here, paid to the producer once broadcasters in more than one country are on board.
VariesGrantcloses in 101 days
Eurimages Co-production Support
Eurimages, the Council of Europe's cultural support fund
Forty member states, Canada, Turkey, Ukraine and Switzerland among them, pay into this Council of Europe fund for co-produced features.
VariesGrant or repayablecloses in 73 days
Also useful
Fellowships and labsPrograms that pick a few writers and work with them for months, on the events pages.Where Creative Europe's development money goesEvery MEDIA development grant since 2014, by country, company and year.How to write a treatmentThe document a development application is built on, step by step.Screenwriting eventsContests, labs, festivals and conferences, with their deadlines.