International fund Saudi Arabia, Jeddah
Run by 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. Treatments, scripts and a video introduction are the core of the application; the credit terms are stricter than most, with the fund named co-producer and Saudi Arabia a production country.
Grant or repayable, amount not statedOpen to writers in the countries on the fund's own list (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe) and Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and OmanA writer with a producer or a production company
Next dates not yet published
That closing date has passed. We check the funder's page every day and add the next dates once they are published.
The fund opens once a year. The next cycle's dates are not yet published; we add them when they are. Four windows a year, printed without a year on the fund page: post-production January 6 to 27, production March 6 to 21, development May 6 to 21, post-production again July 6 to 21.
Every applicant is also considered for a place at the Souk, the festival's project market in Jeddah.
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Catapult Film Fund
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Artist Trust
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ITVS, Independent Television Service
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