Film funds in Latin America and the Caribbean

The national film institutes of Latin America and their writing, development and production lines, from Mexico to Argentina.

9 listed.

DevelopmentProductionCompletionArgentinaNational fund

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.

Next deadline Nov 23, 2026A writer with a producer or a production companyFeature, Series, Documentary, Animation

up to$250kGrantcloses in 22 days

DevelopmentProductionDistributionBrazilNational fund

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.

Next dates not yet publishedA production companyFeature, Series, Documentary, Animation

VariesInvestmentbetween rounds

WritingDevelopmentChileNational fund

Guion original y adaptación literaria, Fondo Audiovisual (original screenplay and literary adaptation line)

Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio, Fondo de Fomento Audiovisual (Chile's Ministry of Cultures)

Chile's culture ministry runs a screenplay line inside its audiovisual fund, paying up to CLP 5 million to write a first draft of a feature or pilot and up to CLP 8 million to take a…

Next dates not yet publishedA writer alone or a writer with a producerFeature, Series, Documentary, Animation

up toCLP8MGrantbetween rounds

ProductionCompletionChileNational fund

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…

Next dates not yet publishedA writer with a producer or a production companyFeature, Documentary, Animation

up toCLP400MGrantbetween rounds

WritingDevelopmentProductionCompletionDistributionColombiaNational fund

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…

Next dates not yet publishedA writer alone, a writer with a producer or a production companyFeature, Short, Documentary, Animation

VariesGrantbetween rounds

WritingDevelopmentProductionCompletionDistributionDominican RepublicNational fund

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.

Next dates not yet publishedA writer with a producer or a production companyFeature, Short, Documentary, Animation

up toDOP7MGrantbetween rounds

ProductionCompletionMexicoNational fund

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.

Next dates not yet publishedA writer with a producer or a production companyFeature, Documentary, Short, Animation

VariesGrantbetween rounds

DevelopmentProductionCompletionDistributionPeruNational fund

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…

Next dates not yet publishedA writer with a producer or a production companyFeature, Short, Documentary, Animation

up toPEN900kGrantbetween rounds

WritingDevelopmentProductionCompletionDistributionUruguayNational fund

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…

Next deadline Nov 10, 2026A writer alone, a writer with a producer or a production companyFeature, Series, Short, Documentary, Animation

VariesGrantcloses in 9 days

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