National fund South Africa, Johannesburg
Run by 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 as the entry ticket. It sits beside the development scheme that pays for the writing in the first place.
Grant, amount not statedOpen to writers in South AfricaA 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. Cycles run through the online portal; approvals are quarterly. No current window is published on the page.
NFVF, National Film and Video Foundation (South Africa)
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