Regional fund Italy, Cagliari
Run by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna, Servizio sport, spettacolo e cinema
Sardinia's cinema law has a line just for screenplays, paid to a company developing a script of regional interest, beside its calls for shorts, features and distribution. The 2025 round published its rankings and the list of funded, unfunded and ineligible projects in early 2026.
Grant, amount not statedOpen to writers in ItalyA 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. The 2025 call was published November 13, 2025 and closed December 1, 2025; the 2026 call is not yet published.
| Round | Closes |
|---|---|
| 2025 deadline | Dec 1, 2025 passed |
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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…
Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Ministero della Cultura
Italy's state money for a writer alone: EUR 10,000 to 20,000 to write a fiction or documentary screenplay for a feature or series over 52 minutes, for cinema, television or the web.
Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Ministero della Cultura
Development money for Italian producers taking a script over 52 minutes toward production, non-repayable, with at most eleven film and six series projects funded per session.
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.
Artist Trust
Two Washington artists a year receive USD 25,000 for pushing at the edges of their field, with no project report attached.
Illinois Arts Council
Illinois pays working artists USD 10,000 by lottery rather than by jury: show an active practice with two work samples and the state lottery draws the winners region by region.
Artist Trust
Washington State's merit award for working artists: USD 10,000 with no strings, judged on the body of work rather than a project.
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.