International fund Germany, Berlin
Run by 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. Fiction, creative documentary and animation of at least 70 minutes; recent films opened in Cannes and Venice.
Grant up to €60,000Open to writers in the countries on the fund's own list (Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe)A production company
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The fund opens once a year. The next cycle's dates are not yet published; we add them when they are. Two submission rounds a year; the dates and the portal link appear on the site four to six weeks before each deadline.
Help finding a German co-production partner, and a distribution support line for the German release.
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.
FFA, Filmförderungsanstalt (German Federal Film Board)
Development money for the stage after the script: rights, further drafts, casting, budgeting. A production company applies, except in documentary, where writers and directors may come alone.
FFA, Filmförderungsanstalt (German Federal Film Board), running the federal jury-based cultural film funding since 2025
The federal screenplay grant that writers apply for alone, since the 2025 film law moved the BKM's cultural funding into the FFA.
Kuratorium junger deutscher Film (foundation for young German film)
Germany's talent fund pays a writer up to EUR 25,000 to develop an original idea from research to script over ten months, with a dramaturg attached.
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.
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.
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.
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…