AFS Grant
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.
up to$20kGrantbetween rounds
Screenwriting grants and film funds
Money to write, develop and make your film
380 public funds, screen agencies and foundations in 62 countries, open to writers in 129. 139 of them take an application from the writer alone. Each one checked on the funder's own page.
- 1 Writing grants 121 funds Paid to the writer, for a draft or a treatment.
- 2 Development funding 198 funds Drafts, packaging and a pitch, usually with a producer.
- 3 Production funding 219 funds The money that gets it shot.
- 4 Post-production and completion funding 56 funds Edit, sound and finishing.
- 5 Distribution funding 20 funds Getting the finished film seen.
Closing soon
72 fixed deadlines in the next 60 days. See them all
Production €500kApulia Film Fundcloses tomorrow
Writing $10kFellowship Awardscloses tomorrow
Writing €10kFonds d'aide à l'innovation en documentaire de création (creative documentary innovation fund)closes tomorrow
Writing CZK200kKreativní vývoj první verze scénáře pro celovečerní hraný film (creative development of a first screenplay draft)closes tomorrow
Development A$35kScripted Project Development Fundcloses tomorrow
Every fund
By country, national funds first. Pick where you write and what you need.
Nothing matches. Try another stage, or leave the country on "any country": international funds are listed under every country they are open to.
Arts Innovator Award
Artist Trust
Two Washington artists a year receive USD 25,000 for pushing at the edges of their field, with no project report attached.
range$25kGrantbetween rounds
Creative Accelerator Fund
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.
range$10kGrantbetween rounds
Fellowship Awards
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.
range$10kGrantcloses tomorrow
Grants for Artist Projects (GAP)
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.
range$2.5kGrantbetween rounds
Minnesota Film Production Grant
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.
up to$30kGrantcloses in 23 days
New York City Film Production Grant
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.
up to$30kGrantcloses in 23 days
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts, with the New York State Council on the Arts
An unrestricted USD 8,000 for the artist rather than the project, awarded by peer panels in rotating disciplines.
range$8kGrantbetween rounds
BPM Open Call
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…
range$150kInvestmentbetween rounds
Creative Shorts Fellowship
Vision Maker Media
A short film with a mentor attached: Vision Maker Media pays up to USD 25,000 to an emerging Native filmmaker to shoot and finish a documentary, drama, animated or experimental short, and…
up to$25kGrantbetween rounds
Incubator Fund
ITVS, Independent Television Service
ITVS's development door, replacing its earlier diversity development fund: a small first payment to shape a nonfiction feature or web series for PBS streaming, with a few months of…
up to$10kGrantpaused
Media Fund and Shorts Fund
Pacific Islanders in Communications
Pacific Islander stories for public television, in two sizes: an hour or half-hour documentary with up to USD 65,000, or a short of any genre with up to USD 25,000, including…
up to$65kInvestmentpaused
Open Call
ITVS, Independent Television Service
The largest sums in American documentary funding come from public television's co-production arm, which has backed 659 films through this call.
up to$400kInvestmentpaused
Public Media Content Fund
Latino Public Broadcasting
Documentaries and limited series about Latino life for national public television, funded from first research through the final mix.
range$100kInvestmentbetween rounds
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grants at Film Independent
Film Independent, with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Science on screen pays here: three cash grants a year for fiction projects about scientists or technology, awarded inside Film Independent's Episodic Lab, Producing Lab and Fast Track…
range$30kGrantbetween rounds
Building Bridges Documentary Fund
Center for Asian American Media, with the Doris Duke Foundation
Documentaries about American Muslim experience can draw real sums here, from USD 10,000 of research money to USD 100,000 for production or post.
range$100kGrantbetween rounds
Catapult Development Grant
Catapult Film Fund
Seed money for documentaries at the point where nobody else will pay: a grant to shoot and cut the sample that raises the rest.
range$25kGrantbetween rounds
range$10kGrantbetween rounds
Creative Capital Award
Creative Capital Foundation
Film sits beside visual art, dance and literature in this national open call, which gives individual artists up to USD 50,000 to make a new work and keeps advising them afterward.
up to$50kGrantbetween rounds
Documentary Film Support
Perspective Fund
A private documentary funder that reads inquiries all year and writes checks of USD 25,000 to 150,000 without taking rights or credits below USD 150,000.
range$150kGrantany time
IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund
International Documentary Association, with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
A production fund for documentaries built on reporting, created in 2017 as an answer to misinformation.
VariesGrantpaused
JustFilms
Ford Foundation
The foundation behind much of American social-issue documentary takes direct proposals from filmmakers through a periodic open call, scored on fit with Ford's justice themes…
VariesGrantpaused
New Filmmaker Program equipment grant
Panavision
No cash changes hands, but a camera package from the house that shot most of Hollywood can be the biggest line in a first film's budget.
StipendStipend or servicesany time
Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The best known paid year of writing in American film: a USD 35,000 stipend to finish a new feature screenplay, open to unproduced writers anywhere in the world.
range$35kGrantbetween rounds
Research & Development Grant
Chicken & Egg Films
Paid thinking time for women and gender-expansive documentary directors between films: a USD 10,000 research grant or a USD 20,000 development grant, with the stage chosen by the applicant.
range$20kGrantbetween rounds
Roy W. Dean Grant
From the Heart Productions
Small cash, large bundle: the winner takes USD 3,500 and a package of donated post, music and consulting worth several times that, for a film meant to do some good.
range$3.5kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
SFFILM Documentary Film Fund
Post-production money for feature documentaries that are shot but not cut, from the San Francisco festival's foundation arm.
range$20kGrantbetween rounds
SFFILM Rainin Grant
SFFILM, with the Kenneth Rainin Foundation
One of the few American grants that pays a screenwriter directly to write, and it can also fund packaging or the edit of the same film later.
up to$25kGrantbetween rounds
Sloan Distribution Grant
Film Independent, with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
A single USD 50,000 check for a finished science-themed fiction feature heading into release, meant to buy a smarter rollout.
range$50kGrantbetween rounds
CMF Indigenous Development, Predevelopment and Production Programs (administered by the ISO)
Indigenous Screen Office with the Canada Media Fund
The Canada Media Fund's Indigenous money is handed to the Indigenous Screen Office to run, with higher contribution rates than the general programs: up to 84 percent of a predevelopment…
up toCA$750kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Development and Predevelopment Funding (Broadcaster Envelope Program, Development)
Canada Media Fund
Television and digital series development in Canada mostly runs through this fund, but a broadcaster has to commit first: the money follows a development deal rather than a pitch.
VariesRepayablecloses in 37 days
Development Program
Telefilm Canada
Canada's federal feature film agency pays for script drafts and packaging through a production company, from a first draft to the attachment of a director and distributor.
up toCA$100kRepayablebetween rounds
Development Program (ISO Story Fund)
Indigenous Screen Office
An Indigenous writer can apply here alone, without a producer or broadcaster, for research, script drafts, story editing, knowledge keepers and pitch materials.
up toCA$40kGrantbetween rounds
Explore and Create: Artistic Creation
Canada Council for the Arts
Since 2026 the Council's Artistic Creation grant stands in for two retired components, Concept to Realization and Research and Creation, and it is the arts council route for a screenwriter…
VariesGrantany time
Filmmaker Assistance Program (FAP)
National Film Board of Canada
Not cash for writing but help finishing a film: the NFB reimburses post-production bills or opens its own Montreal suites to independent English-language filmmakers.
up toCA$15kStipend or servicesbetween rounds
Indigenous Funding streams
Telefilm Canada
Three ring-fenced streams inside Telefilm's feature programs: development, production and a Talent to Watch component for a first micro-budget feature.
VariesGrant or repayablecloses in 100 days
POV Program
Canada Media Fund
Single, authored documentaries have a selective CMF round of their own, in English and in French, each spring.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Production Program
Telefilm Canada
The main production financing for Canadian fiction features, sorted into windows by language and budget level.
VariesGrant or repayablecloses in 37 days
Production Program for All (ISO Story Fund)
Indigenous Screen Office
Shorts, pilots, web series, features and broadcast series can all come to this autumn round, and an individual may apply without a company.
up toCA$750kGrantcloses in 24 days
Production Program for Features and Series (ISO Story Fund)
Indigenous Screen Office
The larger of the ISO's two production rounds, for Indigenous companies with budgets above a million dollars.
up toCA$750kGrantbetween rounds
Program for Black and Racialized Communities (Production)
Canada Media Fund
A selective CMF round reserved for Black-owned companies and companies owned by people of colour, covering series production in both official languages.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Slate Development Pilot Program
Canada Media Fund
The one CMF development route that does not wait for a broadcaster: a company receives a slate allocation and chooses which of its own English or French projects to develop with it.
up toCA$100kRepayablecloses in 11 days
Talent to Watch Program
Telefilm Canada
First features on budgets under half a million dollars get most or all of their financing here, with no repayment.
up toCA$250kGrantbetween rounds
Theatrical Documentary Program
Telefilm Canada
Feature documentaries headed for cinemas have their own Telefilm program, separate from the fiction Production Program, with one intake each spring.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Alberta Made Screen Industries Program (Project Script Development Grant and Alberta Made Production Grant)
Alberta Media Fund, Government of Alberta
Alberta's provincial fund pays for scripts in three phases and then for smaller productions, both as grants with fixed intake windows twice a year.
up toCA$125kGrantcloses in 76 days
Amplified Voices Development Fund
Screen Nova Scotia
Small early-development grants for emerging Black, Indigenous, racialized, 2SLGBTQIA+, disabled or official-language-minority writers and producers in Nova Scotia, paying for pitch decks…
up toCA$20kGrantbetween rounds
Create
Manitoba Arts Council
A general creation grant open to every discipline, so a Manitoba screenwriter applies as a writer or media artist for time to write or to develop a work in progress.
up toCA$15kGrantcloses in 139 days
Creation (research, creation, exploration and production grants for artists)
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (CALQ)
Quebec's standing creation grant takes applications any day of the year, which is rare among public arts funders.
VariesGrantany time
Feature Film Development Fund and Television and Web-Based Development Fund
Manitoba Film and Music
Manitoba lends development money rather than granting it, in phases up to a CAD 35,000 cap, once a distributor or fund has put in the first fifth of the budget.
up toCA$35kRepayableany time
Film and Television Development Grant and Feature Film and TV Production Grant
Creative Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan funds first drafts, final drafts and company slates as grants that only become repayable if the film is shot elsewhere.
up toCA$40kGrantbetween rounds
Film and Video Individual Project Funding
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Script or screenplay writing is named on the page as a phase this grant can pay for, which makes it one of the few provincial grants a screenwriter can take to the page stage alone.
up toCA$18kGrantcloses in 120 days
Futures Forward Program
Ontario Creates
Early-stage development grants for Ontario companies that do not yet qualify for the IP Fund, typically a producer without the credits to attach a qualifying executive producer.
up toCA$20kGrantcloses in 29 days
Grants to Individuals: Create
Arts Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia pays its artists to make new work across every discipline, media and literary arts included, and accepts script samples as support material.
up toCA$15kGrantcloses in 14 days
Independent Artists program (Creation grants)
SK Arts (Saskatchewan Arts Board)
Writing a script is an eligible creation project in Saskatchewan when the filmmaker who will direct it is the applicant; the guidelines use exactly that case as an example.
up toCA$18kGrantcloses in 134 days
IP Fund, Linear Content stream
Ontario Creates
Ontario replaced its Film Fund with this stream in 2026: non-repayable money for development and production of features and digital series made in the province.
rangeCA$400kGrantbetween rounds
Programme d'aide a la production (Production Program)
SODEC, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (Québec)
Fiction features, shorts and one-off documentaries made in Québec apply here after development, in rounds spread through the year.
VariesGrant or repayablecloses in 17 days
Programme d'aide au développement (Development Program), Component 1 writing assistance
SODEC, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (Québec)
Québec's cultural agency pays production companies to write fiction features and medium or feature documentaries, in a selective round twice a year, with a separate strand for animated…
VariesGrant or repayablecloses in 143 days
Project Development Fund
Creative BC
Matching money for British Columbia producers who have already landed a development deal: Creative BC adds up to half of what the broadcaster, distributor or agency committed, as an…
up toCA$20kGrantany time
Reel Focus BC Fund, Production Program
Creative BC
The province's own production grant, created in 2020 and now one round a year: up to CAD 200,000 for a BC-owned feature or documentary, with priority for emerging creators and systemically…
rangeCA$200kGrantbetween rounds
Alter-Ciné Foundation documentary film grants
A small Montreal foundation, named for the documentary maker Yvan Patry, that has given about 90 grants since 2001 to filmmakers from the global South making documentaries about rights and…
rangeCA$10kGrantcloses in 287 days
Cogeco TV Production Program
Independent Production Fund (IPF), funded by Cogeco Communications
Equity for scripted television series that already have a Canadian broadcaster, from the fund Cogeco finances through the IPF.
rangeCA$250kInvestmentbetween rounds
Film Production Assistance Program
Quebecor Fund (Fonds Québecor)
A top-up to the distributor's advance for French-language Canadian features, paid through the distributor and repaid from the film's returns, with extra money for an online marketing plan.
up toCA$200kRepayablecloses in 79 days
Hot Docs-Slaight Family Fund
Hot Docs with the Slaight Family Foundation
A niche documentary fund founded in 2020 for films about music and musicians, Canadian or seen through Canadian eyes, paying a handful of projects each year.
rangeCA$60kGrantbetween rounds
Production Program
Bell Fund
Series production money from one of Canada's certified independent production funds, triggered by a broadcaster or streamer commitment.
up toCA$250kGrantcloses in 31 days
Rocket Fund (Shaw Rocket Fund)
Canada's dedicated children's media fund, backer of more than a thousand programs, has paused its funding programs while it waits for new contributions.
VariesGrant or repayablepaused
Rogers Documentary Fund
Rogers Group of Funds
Since 1996 this fund has topped up the financing of Canadian documentaries once a platform has licensed them, with no recoupment and a cap of CAD 100,000.
up toCA$100kGrantbetween rounds
Rogers Series Fund
Rogers Group of Funds
Independently produced Canadian series with a private broadcaster and a streamer both on board can draw up to half a million dollars here, as a grant below CAD 350,000 and as equity above…
up toCA$500kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Short Form Series Development Program
Independent Production Fund (IPF)
Scripted short-form series, meaning web and digital-first fiction, are the whole point here. The development advance pays for scripts, a bible, an audience plan and a proof-of-concept shoot.
up toCA$30kRepayablebetween rounds
Slate Development Program
Bell Fund
A slate rather than a single project: a Canadian producer develops several original series at once and moves the money between them as the market responds.
up toCA$75kRepayablebetween rounds
Television Production Assistance Program, Creation of Intellectual Property Support
Quebecor Fund (Fonds Québecor)
Development money for Québec television concepts and formats meant to sell abroad, where a French-language broadcaster has already put in development money.
up toCA$300kRepayablebetween rounds
TELUS Fund development, production and post-launch financing
Here the subject matters as much as the script: a feature, series or web series only qualifies when well-being, health or living conditions drive the story, and a Canadian health…
up toCA$25kRepayablebetween rounds
TELUS STORYHIVE
TELUS (TELUS Local Content)
A cable company's community fund for people in British Columbia and Alberta who have never worked in broadcasting: grants of CAD 10,000 to 20,000 for a short documentary series, a digital…
rangeCA$20kGrantcloses in 39 days
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.
up to$250kGrantcloses in 22 days
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.
VariesInvestmentbetween rounds
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…
up toCLP8MGrantbetween rounds
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…
up toCLP400MGrantbetween rounds
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…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
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.
up toDOP7MGrantbetween rounds
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.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
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…
up toPEN900kGrantbetween rounds
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…
VariesGrantcloses in 9 days
Agility Award
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
A first-rung grant for artists the Arts Council has never funded as individuals, to develop their practice, work or skills.
up to€5kGrantbetween rounds
Animation Development Loans
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Development loans for animated television series from Irish studios, applied for with a series bible, sample visuals and, if available, a full episode script.
up to€30kRepayablebetween rounds
Authored Works
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
The largest of the Arts Council's film awards, for a feature-length film driven by its author's vision rather than a market.
up to€230kGrantbetween rounds
Completion Funding
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Money to finish an Irish feature or feature documentary that was shot without Screen Ireland and has reached a rough cut.
up to€100kRepayablebetween rounds
Creative Futures Slate Fund 2026-2028
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Slate money for established Irish companies to develop several narrative projects at once over two years, with writers' fees, rights and script editors among the eligible costs.
up to€250kRepayablecloses in 19 days
Film Project Award
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
The Arts Council's project grant for film as an art form, open to an individual filmmaker as much as to a company, with a ceiling of ninety thousand euro.
up to€90kGrantbetween rounds
First Stage Documentary Development
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Seed money for a documentary feature or series from an Irish company, with rights paperwork needed before any funds are drawn.
up to€15kRepayablebetween rounds
Irish Feature Film Development Loans
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
The producer's route to developing an Irish feature, from a treatment or script sample through further drafts, with the same deadlines as the writer-only scheme.
up to€125kRepayablebetween rounds
Production Loans (fiction, documentary, TV drama, animation)
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Screen Ireland's production money across four schemes, each a loan to an Irish company for a project led by Irish talent and mostly in English or Irish.
up to€950kRepayablebetween rounds
Reel Art
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon (Ireland)
A documentary grant with an unusual brief: imaginative, experimental films about the arts, made for cinemas and judged as artworks. Individual filmmakers may apply directly.
up to€120kGrantbetween rounds
Screenplay Development Loans (Established Talent)
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Ireland's writer-only development loan: a produced screenwriter takes an idea to a first draft with a script editor, and a producer attached makes the application ineligible.
up to€20kRepayablebetween rounds
Short film schemes (Focus Shorts and Frameworks)
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann, Frameworks with RTÉ
Fully funded shorts for Irish teams: live action through Focus Shorts, animation through Frameworks with RTÉ as co-funder and broadcaster.
up to€73kGrantbetween rounds
Television Drama Development Loans
Screen Ireland / Fís Éireann
Development loans for Irish television drama, applied for by a producer with a writer already agreed.
VariesRepayablebetween rounds
BFI Development Funding
BFI (British Film Institute), National Lottery
The main public route for developing a British fiction feature, from treatment through to a screenplay ready to finance.
VariesGrant or repayableany time
BFI Doc Society Fund: features development and production
Doc Society for the BFI (British Film Institute), National Lottery
The UK's National Lottery money for feature documentaries, run by Doc Society.
range£150kGrantcloses in 50 days
BFI Filmmaking Fund: Discovery and Impact feature funding
BFI (British Film Institute), National Lottery
Production money for British features in two strands split by budget and by the director's experience.
up to£1.3MGrant or repayablecloses in 45 days
Made of Truth (BFI Doc Society short film fund)
Doc Society for BFI NETWORK (British Film Institute), National Lottery
A yearly grant for short documentaries by UK filmmakers at the start of their careers, in live action or animation.
up to£25kGrantbetween rounds
UK Global Screen Fund: International Co-production
BFI (British Film Institute) for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Government money, administered by the BFI, for UK companies joining international co-productions as the smaller partner.
up to£300kGrantcloses in 23 days
BFI NETWORK England short film funding
BFI NETWORK (British Film Institute), National Lottery
Grants for fictional shorts by filmmakers starting out in England, with the producer signing the application and the writer part of the team.
range£25kGrantbetween rounds
BFI NETWORK England: Early Development Fund
BFI NETWORK (British Film Institute), National Lottery
One of very few British public grants a writer can hold alone, paid to write a treatment for a debut feature before any script exists.
range£5kGrantcloses in 10 days
Feature Film Development
Ffilm Cymru Wales, National Lottery via Arts Council of Wales and BFI NETWORK
Development money for a single feature, documentary or animated film with a Welsh writer, director or producer at its head, and a lone writer may apply.
up to£25kGrant or repayablecloses in 93 days
Feature Film Production
Ffilm Cymru Wales, National Lottery via Arts Council of Wales and Welsh Government via Creative Wales
Production investment for Welsh-led features heading for cinemas, normally capped at half the budget.
up to£600kInvestmentcloses in 3 days
Film Development and Production Fund
Screen Scotland (Creative Scotland), National Lottery and Scottish Government
Scotland's main film fund, in two routes.
range£500kGrant or repayableany time
First Features (Short Circuit)
Screen Scotland and BFI NETWORK, delivered by Film City Futures with Glasgow Film
Development money for a first feature script in Scotland, paid to the writer rather than a company.
up to£20kGrantany time
Green Lit (Northern Ireland Screen and BBC Northern Ireland drama initiative)
Northern Ireland Screen with BBC Northern Ireland
A broadcaster-backed pipeline for emerging Northern Irish drama talent: six outlines win development money, three become standalone scripted films for BBC One Northern Ireland and iPlayer…
up to£10kGrantbetween rounds
Irish Language Broadcast Fund (Ciste Craoltóireachta Gaeilge)
Northern Ireland Screen
Northern Ireland's fund for television made in Irish, across every genre, with the broadcaster usually matching development money and the fund investing up to four hundred thousand pounds…
up to£400kInvestmentbetween rounds
New Writer Focus
Northern Ireland Screen
Northern Ireland Screen's only door for an individual writer: up to four first-time feature writers a year join an eight-month development scheme and can then claim a small individual award.
up to£2.3kGrantbetween rounds
Northern Ireland Screen Fund (production)
Gap finance for feature films, television drama, animation, factual and interactive projects shooting in Northern Ireland, offered once most of the budget is already committed.
VariesGrant or repayableany time
Open Fund for Individuals
Creative Scotland, National Lottery and Scottish Government
Creative Scotland's general grant for individual artists and writers, paying for a period of research, development or making, with the applicant's own time an allowed cost.
range£50kGrantany time
Script, Project and Slate Development funding
Northern Ireland Screen
Recoupable development money for feature film and television drama scripts, and for single projects or slates across film, TV and interactive work.
up to£100kRepayableany time
Short film schemes (Short Film Call, Creative Animation, New Shorts Focus)
Northern Ireland Screen, with Arts Council of Northern Ireland and BFI NETWORK lottery funds
Three short film schemes under one roof for Northern Ireland talent: a production call for live action, factual and VR shorts, an animation scheme run through local studios, and a…
up to£40kGrantbetween rounds
Support for the Individual Artist Programme: Project Funding for Individual Artists
Arts Council of Northern Ireland, National Lottery
Northern Ireland's lottery grant for an individual artist's own project, covering new work, research, time to create, residencies or training.
range£15kGrantbetween rounds
Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund
Northern Ireland Screen
Content money for programs and short digital work in or about Ulster-Scots culture and language, run by Northern Ireland Screen with BBC Northern Ireland as its main partner.
up to£40kGrant or repayableany time
WRITE NOW early stage development documentary fund
Scottish Documentary Institute
A small grant for the writing phase of a first or second feature documentary by a director based in Scotland, before there is anything to shoot.
up to£3kGrantbetween rounds
Emerging Indie Fund
Channel 4
Rather than fund one script, Channel 4 picks up to five regional companies a year (plus two digital ones) and pays for their development slates while a commissioner meets them regularly.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Arbeitsstipendium Film (working stipend for a film concept)
BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
For the stage before a project can even apply for development: a few months of paid time to turn a rough idea into a treatment or concept.
range€4.5kGrantcloses in 91 days
Förderung von Drehbüchern (screenplay funding, innovative film)
BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
The federal arts ministry's screenplay stipend for the independent, low-budget end of Austrian cinema: features whose production the same department might later fund.
up to€15kGrantcloses in 91 days
Herstellung (production funding)
ÖFI, Österreichisches Filminstitut (Austrian Film Institute)
The selective production round of the Austrian Film Institute, where the finished screenplay, cast and budget go in together.
VariesGrant or repayablecloses in 38 days
Herstellung innovativer Filme (production of innovative films)
BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
Production grants for the small, uncommercial film that the ÖFI would not fund: shorts, experimental and avant-garde work, documentaries and features under EUR 750,000.
up to€120kGrantcloses in 91 days
Projektentwicklung (project development, innovative film)
BMWKMS, Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport, Filmabteilung (Austrian federal ministry for arts and culture, film department)
Development grants from the arts ministry for the experimental and documentary side of Austrian film, where an individual filmmaker can apply without a company.
up to€25kGrantcloses in 91 days
Projektentwicklung (project development)
ÖFI, Österreichisches Filminstitut (Austrian Film Institute)
Once an Austrian company holds your script, this grant pays for the final draft, casting, locations and a production plan ahead of the ÖFI's production round.
up to€50kGrantcloses in 38 days
Stoffentwicklung (script and concept development)
ÖFI, Österreichisches Filminstitut (Austrian Film Institute)
Austria's national script grant for cinema features and documentary concepts, paid directly to the writer and exempt from income tax.
up to€15kGrantcloses in 23 days
Arbeitsstipendium Film (working stipend for story development)
Land Niederösterreich, Abteilung Kunst und Kultur (Lower Austria regional government, arts and culture department)
Lower Austria pays four filmmakers EUR 6,000 each for a year of idea and story work: research, treatment, storyboard, shooting concept or screenplay, in any genre.
range€6kGrantbetween rounds
Filmförderung des Landes Niederösterreich (Lower Austria film funding: artistic film and cinema production)
Land Niederösterreich, Abteilung Kunst und Kultur (Lower Austria regional government, arts and culture department)
A state fund in two parts: grants for commercially difficult artistic films by Lower Austrians, taken year-round, and top-up grants for cinema features and documentaries that shoot in the…
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Herstellungsförderung (production funding)
Cinestyria Filmcommission and Fonds, Land Steiermark (Styria regional government, run by Steirische Tourismusmarketing)
Styria's fund pays producers to shoot stories set in the region, from Steirerkrimis television films to features such as Vier minus drei, as long as the money comes back as regional…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Oberösterreichische Filmförderung (Upper Austria cultural film funding)
Land Oberösterreich, Direktion Kultur und Gesellschaft (Upper Austria regional government, culture department)
Upper Austria funds development, production or release of artistic films by people who live in the state, with a treatment and synopsis enough to apply.
VariesGrantcloses in 29 days
Aide à l'écriture, longs métrages de fiction et d'animation (feature writing aid)
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
French-speaking Belgium's writing aid for features pays a screenwriter up to EUR 15,000 and takes the application from the writer directly, with EEA nationals eligible alongside Belgians.
up to€15kGrantbetween rounds
Aide au développement et aide à la production, longs métrages et courts métrages (development and production aid)
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
The producer stages of the Walloon-Brussels film commission: development money of EUR 15,000 to EUR 60,000, then production grants that reach half a million euros for a feature from the…
range€500kGrantbetween rounds
Aides aux documentaires de création (creative documentary aid: writing, development, production)
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
A full ladder for documentary in French-speaking Belgium, from EUR 10,000 to write a film through development to production grants that top out at EUR 120,000 for a series.
up to€120kGrantbetween rounds
Commission Séries: aide à l'écriture, au développement et à la production (series commission)
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Series money in French-speaking Belgium flows only once a broadcaster has signed, and then it is generous: EUR 25,000 to start the writers' room, EUR 150,000 to develop and EUR 600,000 to…
up to€600kGrantbetween rounds
Ontwikkelings- en productiesteun, VAF/Filmfonds (development and production support)
VAF, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (Flanders Audiovisual Fund)
Once a Flemish script has a producer, this is where it grows: development money of which at least EUR 35,000 of the top tier must go to further writing, then production grants that reach…
range€1MGrantcloses in 16 days
Scenariosteun, VAF/Filmfonds (screenplay support)
VAF, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (Flanders Audiovisual Fund)
The Flemish fund's entry point for a writer alone: EUR 15,000 to write a feature or documentary script, filed in Dutch, with the same money later deducted from any production grant.
range€15kGrantcloses in 16 days
VAF/Mediafonds: scenario-, ontwikkelings- en productiesteun voor series (series support)
VAF, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (Flanders Audiovisual Fund)
The Flemish fund's television arm, where a series can start with up to EUR 25,000 of script money before any channel signs on, and climb to EUR 1.3 million for a high-end production.
up to€1.3MGrantcloses in 11 days
screen.brussels fund (Brussels co-production fund)
screen.brussels, the Brussels-Capital Region's audiovisual fund
Brussels backs films and series that spend money in the city, up to EUR 500,000 repaid from receipts.
up to€500kRepayablecloses in 82 days
Wallimage Coproductions and Wallimpact (production and development financing)
Wallimage, the economic film and games fund of Wallonia
An economic fund, so the question is Walloon spend rather than cultural fit, but its Wallimpact line pays producers EUR 50,000 to EUR 100,000 for scriptwriting and development, repaid only…
range€100kRepayablebetween rounds
Konkurs za sufinansiranje filmskih projekata (co-financing of film projects: screenplay development, production, minority co-productions)
Fondacija za kinematografiju Sarajevo (Cinematography Foundation, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Bosnia's federal film foundation runs one call a year that bundles everything, from a small screenplay development line a writer can claim as a natural person (BAM 3,000 to 6,000) to…
rangeBAM600kGrantbetween rounds
Финансиране на български филми (funding of Bulgarian films: screenplay writing and project development, pre-production, production)
Национален филмов център, НФЦ (Bulgarian National Film Center)
Bulgaria runs two general sessions a year for feature projects, plus one for co-productions with the national broadcaster BNT.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Filmske koprodukcije s manjinskim hrvatskim udjelom (minority co-productions)
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
Four deadlines through 2027 for foreign features, shorts, documentaries and animation seeking a Croatian partner.
VariesGrantcloses in 74 days
Proizvodnja filmova (film production)
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
Croatia's main production call, in two rounds a year with decisions in June and December.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Razvoj scenarija i razvoj projekata audiovizualnih djela (script and project development for feature, documentary and animated films)
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
Croatia lets a writer apply alone for script money, and up to two co-writers may share one grant equally. Features need 70 minutes, documentaries 60, animation 24.
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Razvoj scenarija i razvoj projekata dugometražnih igranih i animiranih filmova za djecu i mlade (script and project development for children's and youth features)
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
A ring-fenced pot for family films.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Razvoj scenarija i razvoj projekata televizijskih djela (script and project development for television series)
Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, HAVC (Croatian Audiovisual Centre)
The television twin of HAVC's film development call, for series writers.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Kompletní vývoj celovečerního hraného filmu (complete development of a feature fiction film)
Státní fond audiovize (Czech Audiovisual Fund)
Second-stage development money for Czech feature fiction projects that already have a first draft.
up toCZK1.3MGrantbetween rounds
Kreativní vývoj první verze scénáře pro celovečerní hraný film (creative development of a first screenplay draft)
Státní fond audiovize (Czech Audiovisual Fund)
A rare European script grant paid straight to the writer rather than a producer.
up toCZK200kGrantcloses tomorrow
Výroba celovečerního hraného filmu (feature fiction film production)
Státní fond audiovize (Czech Audiovisual Fund)
The Czech fund's main production pot, CZK 80 million in this round, open until November 2, 2026.
VariesGrantcloses tomorrow
Arbejdslegater for film (working grants for film)
Statens Kunstfond (Danish Arts Foundation)
A personal grant from the Danish state's arts foundation for the artist's own practice, not for a particular film's budget. It pays for time to work, which for a writer means time to write.
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Dokumentar og kort fiktion, Konsulentordningen (documentary and short fiction consultant scheme)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
The artistic track for Danish documentaries and short fiction, including an idea stage for documentaries that only the director needs to sign.
VariesGrantany time
New Danish Screen
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
Debut long films made cheaply, with the talent's voice as the point. A producer and director apply together; a screenwriter joins that team rather than applying alone.
VariesGrantany time
Public Service Puljen (public service pool)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
Denmark's money for drama series, documentary series and audio made for commercial broadcasters and streamers rather than DR. Development support can pay for scripts, research, casting and…
VariesGrantcloses in 66 days
Spillefilm, Konsulentordningen (feature film consultant scheme)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
Denmark's main route for features judged on their artistic merit.
VariesGrantany time
Spillefilm, Markedsordningen (feature film market scheme)
Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish Film Institute)
For Danish features expected to draw a larger cinema audience than the national average.
VariesGrantcloses in 73 days
Den Vestdanske Filmpulje (West Danish Film Fund)
Western Denmark's regional fund for features, series, documentaries and animated shorts at development and production stage.
VariesGrantcloses in 12 days
FilmFyn
The film fund for Funen and its islands, paying development and production money to features, documentaries and drama series that shoot or hire on the island.
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Audiovisuaalse kunsti sihtkapital (Endowment for Audiovisual Arts)
Eesti Kultuurkapital (Cultural Endowment of Estonia)
Estonia's second film funder, financed by excise taxes and run as an endowment with four deadlines a year.
up to€200kGrantcloses in 19 days
Dokumentaalfilmi arendus ja tootmine (documentary development and production)
Eesti Filmi Instituut (Estonian Film Institute)
One pair of rounds a year covers both stages of an Estonian documentary: up to EUR 25,000 to develop and up to EUR 200,000 to produce.
up to€200kGrantbetween rounds
Täispika filmi stsenaariumi arendus (feature film script development)
Eesti Filmi Instituut (Estonian Film Institute)
Estonia's script money comes in small steps: a treatment round, then stage I and stage II of script development at up to EUR 5,000 each, applied for by the writer's company or a producer.
up to€5kGrantbetween rounds
Täispika mängufilmi arendus (feature film development)
Eesti Filmi Instituut (Estonian Film Institute)
Development support for Estonian fiction features, capped at EUR 50,000 and applied for by a producer twice a year.
up to€50kGrantbetween rounds
Täispika mängufilmi tootmine (feature film production)
Eesti Filmi Instituut (Estonian Film Institute)
The institute's largest grant, up to EUR 900,000 for an Estonian fiction feature, with two rounds a year and the next closing December 8, 2026.
up to€900kGrantcloses in 37 days
AVEK käsikirjoitustuki ja kohdeapuraha (script grant and target grant for individuals)
AVEK, Audiovisuaalisen kulttuurin edistämiskeskus (Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture), part of Kopiosto
Small, fast and personal: AVEK pays a writer EUR 3,500 to plan and write a documentary, short fiction, short animation or media art piece, with no company and no deadline.
range€7kGrantany time
AVEK tuki yrityksille (company support for development and production)
AVEK, Audiovisuaalisen kulttuurin edistämiskeskus (Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture), part of Kopiosto
For production companies making documentaries, shorts, short animation and media art, with the emphasis on early content development but room to fund later stages or a whole small…
up to€15kGrantany time
Käsikirjoitusapuraha (scriptwriting grant)
Suomen elokuvasäätiö (Finnish Film Foundation)
Finland pays its screenwriters a monthly allowance to write: EUR 2,000 a month for up to a year, with no producer or company needed.
up to€24kGrantcloses in 73 days
Kehittämistuki (development support)
Suomen elokuvasäätiö (Finnish Film Foundation)
Development money for Finnish production companies, paying for script writing and development, production planning, design and the work needed to build a budget and finance plan.
up to€250kGrantcloses in 72 days
Tuotantotuki (production support)
Suomen elokuvasäätiö (Finnish Film Foundation)
The Finnish Film Foundation's main production grant, up to EUR 1.2 million for features, shorts, documentaries, animation and documentary or animation series.
up to€1.2MGrantcloses in 72 days
General grant call (working grants for artists)
Kone Foundation (Koneen Saatio)
Finland's largest private arts funder pays artists a monthly grant to work in peace, from six months to three years, and says yes to every art form, so a screenwriter applies on the…
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Aide à la création de séries (series creation aid)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
A single EUR 40,000 payment for an experienced series writer to build a new show from scratch, with no producer required.
range€40kGrantcloses in 92 days
Aide au développement d'œuvres cinématographiques de longue durée (feature film development aid)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
France's main public development money for feature films pays the producer to option rights, write and rewrite.
VariesGrant or repayablecloses in 19 days
Aide au parcours d'auteur (author's career aid)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
Not a project grant but time: EUR 20,000 for an author with a track record to think before writing the next thing, with no synopsis or producer required.
range€20kGrantbetween rounds
Aide aux cinémas du monde (world cinema support)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, with the Institut français
The French door for filmmakers from anywhere else: a grant of up to EUR 300,000 for a feature co-produced with a French company, and a smaller sum to finish a film already shot.
up to€300kGrantcloses in 8 days
Aide avant réalisation à la production de films de court métrage (short film production aid before shooting)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
The CNC's main selective money for shorts, read by two committees so that a first film is not weighed against seasoned directors.
VariesGrantcloses in 16 days
Aides à l'élaboration et au développement de séries documentaires (documentary series writing and development aid)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
A newer CNC line for documentary series, paying the author EUR 15,000 to write a show of three or more episodes before any broadcaster is involved.
from€15kGrantcloses in 35 days
Avance sur recettes avant réalisation (advance on receipts before production)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
The oldest selective aid in French cinema, created in 1960, and still the one that gets first features financed.
VariesRepayablebetween rounds
COCO-I, aide à la co-écriture de coproductions internationales (international series co-writing aid)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
Money for a writers' team that spans borders: a French author and a co-author of another nationality share EUR 50,000 to write the pilot of a series built as a co-production.
range€50kGrantcloses in 92 days
Fiction : aide à l'écriture, Fonds d'aide à l'innovation audiovisuelle (television fiction writing aid)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
Flat-rate money for writing a television series or single drama before any producer is attached, paid straight to the author.
range€30kGrantcloses in 68 days
Fonds d'aide à l'innovation en documentaire de création (creative documentary innovation fund)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French national film center)
Documentary writers can start here alone with EUR 10,000 and stay in the same fund as a producer comes on board, up to a reinforced development sum that pays for a first shoot.
from€10kGrantcloses tomorrow
Fonds Images de la diversité (Images of Diversity fund)
CNC, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, with the Agence nationale de la cohésion des territoires
A fund for stories about the France that mainstream screens miss, reformed in April 2026.
from€10kGrantcloses in 64 days
Aide à l'écriture de scénario, Cinéma et Audiovisuel (screenplay writing aid)
Région Île-de-France
The largest French regional writing bursary, paying an author EUR 8,000 to EUR 18,000 plus pitch coaching, in exchange for running a workshop with students.
range€18kGrantpaused
Aide au concept (concept aid for authors)
Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine
A small, early grant for the stage before a treatment exists: research, interviews, location visits.
up to€5kGrantcloses in 37 days
Fonds de soutien à la création et à la production pour le cinéma et l'audiovisuel (film and audiovisual support fund)
Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, run with ALCA (the regional book, film and audiovisual agency)
One of the biggest regional funds in France, covering writing, development and production for cinema and television across six genre committees.
VariesGrantcloses in 71 days
Fonds de soutien cinéma et audiovisuel, aide à la production (production support fund)
Région Île-de-France
The region around Paris puts more than EUR 16 million a year into features and a similar effort into series, as grants rather than advances.
up to€600kGrantcloses in 66 days
Aide à la Création (creation award)
Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma (corporate foundation of the insurer Gan)
A private foundation that has backed more than 260 first and second features since 1987, with a reading committee and a jury of professionals choosing four scripts a year.
up to€53kGrantcloses in 43 days
Aide au développement, Commissions Cinéma et Télévision (development aid)
Procirep and Angoa (French producers' collecting societies)
Money that French producers' own collecting societies put back into writing: around EUR 15 million a year across cinema and television.
up to€63kGrant or repayablecloses in 65 days
Bourse d'écriture cinéma long-métrage (feature film writing bursary)
Association Beaumarchais-SACD
A writer alone, writing in French from anywhere in the world, can win EUR 5,000 for a first or second fiction feature.
range€5kGrantbetween rounds
Bourse d'écriture télévision (television writing bursary)
Association Beaumarchais-SACD
The television twin of the Beaumarchais feature bursary: EUR 5,000 to an emerging writer for an original series or single drama in French, with web series welcome.
range€5kGrantbetween rounds
Bourses de la Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardere (screenwriter, documentary and animation author bourses)
A media group's foundation has handed out bourses to young creators since 1990, and three of its twelve categories are for screen storytellers: TV screenwriter, documentary author and…
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ფილმწარმოების დაფინანსების კონკურსი (feature film production funding competitions, 2026 to 2027)
საქართველოს ეროვნული კინოცენტრი (Georgian National Film Center)
Georgia funds features in short autumn windows of two weeks, one competition for debuts and one for established directors, each with GEL 3 million to split among four or five films.
up toGEL1MGrantbetween rounds
Jurybasierte Filmförderung für programmfüllende Filme (jury-based production funding for feature-length films)
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.
up to€1MGrantcloses in 44 days
Jurybasierte kulturelle Projektentwicklungsförderung (jury-based project development funding)
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.
up to€100kGrantcloses in 44 days
Jurybasierte kulturelle Treatment- und Drehbuchförderung (jury-based treatment and screenplay funding)
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.
up to€40kGrantcloses in 44 days
Stipendium Stoffentwicklung (story development stipend, Talentfilm)
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.
up to€25kRepayablebetween rounds
Talentfilm: Projektentwicklung und Produktion (talent film project development and production)
Kuratorium junger deutscher Film (foundation for young German film)
Where first and second films by German writers, directors and producers go for development and production money since the FFA handed talent films to the Kuratorium in January 2026.
up to€500kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Verwendung von Referenzmitteln für Autor*innen und Regisseur*innen (reference funds for writers and directors)
FFA, Filmförderungsanstalt (German Federal Film Board)
New under the 2025 film law: when a German feature scores reference points, its writer and director get their own pot to spend on the next script, from a first idea to a finished…
up to€45kGrantany time
Creative Development (exposé, treatment, screenplay)
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia film and media foundation)
A ladder of grants from a five-thousand-euro exposé to a twenty-thousand-euro screenplay, with the first rung open to NRW writers on their own and no producer required.
range€70kGrantcloses in 81 days
Drehbuch- und Stoffentwicklung, Projektweiterentwicklung, Produktion (script development, project development, production)
nordmedia, Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen
Lower Saxony and Bremen's fund lets a writer apply for script development money alone, up to EUR 30,000, though the sum is a loan due if the film gets made.
up to€30kRepayablecloses in 74 days
Drehbuchförderung (screenplay funding)
MFG Baden-Württemberg, Filmförderung (Baden-Württemberg film fund)
Baden-Württemberg's script line takes a writer's own application for a fiction feature, while documentaries and series need a company.
VariesRepayablecloses in 2 days
Förderung Nachwuchs: Debütfilm und Kurzfilm (emerging talent: debut and short film)
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
A separate door for first and second features in Berlin-Brandenburg, with smaller sums and a grant option for low budgets.
up to€250kGrant or repayablecloses in 93 days
Gerd Ruge Stipendium (documentary development stipend)
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia film and media foundation)
Since 2002 this NRW stipend has paid young documentary makers to develop a cinema feature before any producer is attached: a treatment, research trips, a visual concept.
up to€100kGrantbetween rounds
NEST (development funding for ideas, scripts and concepts)
MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
NEST replaced the treatment and screenplay schemes in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein in favor of a residency plus tools model: EUR 7,500 for the idea, a week with Le Groupe Ouest, then a…
range€150kGrantbetween rounds
Produktion Kinofilm und Kinodokumentarfilm (feature and documentary production)
FFF Bayern, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (Bavarian film and television fund)
Bavaria's main production loan, up to three million euros, sitting behind the fund's script and development lines.
up to€3MRepayablecloses in 85 days
Produktion Kinofilme (feature film production)
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
The production loan behind many Berlin-shot features and documentaries. The script, a recoupment plan and proof of exploitation go in with the producer's application.
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Produktion und Produktionsvorbereitung (production and pre-production)
MFG Baden-Württemberg, Filmförderung (Baden-Württemberg film fund)
Stuttgart's production loan for cinema and television films, with a pre-production line beside it. The fund's news names its films, from an animated NEINhorn to the Emmy-nominated Lenas Hof.
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Produktion, Produktionsvorbereitung, Setzkasten und Paketförderung (production, pre-production and packages)
HessenFilm und Medien (Hessen film and media fund)
Everything after the script in Hessen: pre-production grants, a Setzkasten that bundles treatment, development and preparation, slate funding for small companies, and a production loan…
up to€1MGrant or repayablecloses in 23 days
Produktion, Projektentwicklung und Fertigstellung (production, project development and completion)
MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
Two committees split Hamburg's production money by budget, Director's Cut below EUR 2.5 million and High End above, with project development and completion lines alongside.
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Projektentwicklung (project development)
FFF Bayern, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (Bavarian film and television fund)
The step between a finished Bavarian screenplay and the shoot: a loan to the producer for casting, budgeting and further drafts, with recent awards between EUR 30,000 and EUR 85,000 per…
up to€100kRepayablecloses in 85 days
Spielfilm: Produktion und Pre-Production (feature film production and pre-production)
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia film and media foundation)
The production line of Germany's biggest regional fund, covering pre-production, the shoot, post, distribution and world sales.
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Stoffentwicklung (script development)
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
Berlin-Brandenburg's script money goes to the producer developing your screenplay, as a loan that comes back only if the film happens.
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Stoffentwicklung und Treatmentförderung (script and treatment funding)
FFF Bayern, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (Bavarian film and television fund)
Bavaria pays a fixed EUR 30,000 for a feature or series screenplay, and a writer can apply directly as long as a Bavarian producer signs a letter of intent.
up to€30kGrantcloses in 85 days
Stoffentwicklung, Projektentwicklung und Produktion (script development, project development and production)
MDM, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (central German media fund for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia)
Central Germany funds a writer's screenplay, series concept or storyworld with a loan of up to EUR 25,000, rising to EUR 30,000 through a company, then project development and production…
up to€30kRepayablebetween rounds
Stoffentwicklung, Projektentwicklung und Produktionsförderung (script development, project development and production)
MV Filmförderung (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern film fund)
A small northeastern fund with an unusual perk: script development is an outright grant of up to EUR 20,000, and a writer can apply with just a producer's letter.
up to€250kGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Treatment und Stoffentwicklung (treatment and script development)
HessenFilm und Medien (Hessen film and media fund)
Hessen hands writers a grant for a treatment on a rolling basis and up to EUR 30,000 for a screenplay three times a year, with the writer applying alone if they live in the state.
up to€30kGrantcloses in 23 days
WCF Europe
World Cinema Fund, Berlin International Film Festival, with Creative Europe MEDIA
WCF money for European producers, including those in Eastern Europe and the Balkans with little co-production funding at home, who partner with a filmmaker from the fund's regions.
up to€60kGrantbetween rounds
World Cinema Fund (WCF Classic)
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.
up to€60kGrantbetween rounds
Βασικό Πρόγραμμα: Ανάπτυξη και Παραγωγή (Main Program: Development and Production)
EKKOMED, Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center (formerly the Greek Film Centre)
Greece's core development and production money, applied for by a producer with the writer's contract in the file.
up to€500kGrantcloses in 60 days
Βασικό Πρόγραμμα: Γραφή Σεναρίου (Main Program: Screenwriting)
EKKOMED, Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center (formerly the Greek Film Centre)
Greece pays a writer directly to get from idea to first draft: EUR 4,000 to 7,000 against a logline, a 2,000 to 5,000 word treatment and a statement of intent, with the money returned if…
range€7kGrantcloses in 60 days
Πρόγραμμα Πρώτης Ταινίας: Γραφή Σεναρίου (First Film Program: Screenwriting)
EKKOMED, Hellenic Film and Audiovisual Center (formerly the Greek Film Centre)
The same writing grant as the main program, reserved for projects whose director has never made a feature, with twelve months to deliver a first draft or a 2,500 word documentary treatment.
range€7kGrantcloses in 91 days
Forgatókönyv-fejlesztési pályázat (script development call)
Nemzeti Filmintézet, NFI (National Film Institute Hungary)
Hungary's national money for scripts is on hold.
VariesGrantpaused
Inkubátor Program, gyártási pályázat (Incubator Program production call)
Nemzeti Filmintézet, NFI (National Film Institute Hungary)
First features on small budgets: Hungary's Incubator route turns a pitch-forum win into production money, up to HUF 135 million for a feature.
up toHUF135MGrantcloses in 71 days
Framleiðslustyrkir (production grants)
Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands (Icelandic Film Centre)
Iceland's production grants for features, shorts, documentaries and scripted television, issued first as a conditional commitment and then as a grant once the rest of the money is in place.
VariesGrantany time
Handritsstyrkir (script grants)
Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands (Icelandic Film Centre)
Iceland pays for scripts in two stages, a first draft and then its development, each worth up to ISK 1.5 million for features, with a combined ISK 3 million for writers who have done it…
up toISK3MGrantany time
Þróunarstyrkir (development grants)
Kvikmyndamiðstöð Íslands (Icelandic Film Centre)
Development money for feature length fiction, scripted series and long documentaries, paid to an Icelandic production company in up to two parts.
VariesGrantany time
Contributi selettivi per la produzione (selective production contributions)
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…
up to€1.2MGrantbetween rounds
Contributi selettivi per la scrittura di sceneggiature (selective screenplay writing contributions)
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.
range€20kGrantbetween rounds
Contributi selettivi per lo sviluppo (selective development contributions)
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.
up to€100kGrantbetween rounds
Apulia Film Fund
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.
range€500kGrantcloses tomorrow
Bando Lombardia a sostegno dello sviluppo di opere cinematografiche e audiovisive (development call)
Lombardia Film Commission (Regione Lombardia)
A young development call, now in its second year, paying for writing and pre-production of films and series with Lombardy as a setting and a resource.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Bando per lo sviluppo di sceneggiature, L.R. 15/2006 art. 5 (screenplay development call)
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.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Film Fund (Trentino Film Commission)
Trentino Film Commission, Trentino Sviluppo (Provincia autonoma di Trento)
A production fund for works shot in Trentino, with the committee meeting about every three months and approved projects listed on the portal back to 2011.
up to€400kGrantpaused
Fondo Grandi Produzioni (large productions fund)
Regione Autonoma della Sardegna and Fondazione Sardegna Film Commission
Money for bigger films that bring a shoot to Sardinia, in three categories by budget size, with a documentary strand. The round was reopened in autumn 2026 for the remaining funds.
up to€338kGrantcloses in 8 days
Fondo per l'Audiovisivo del Friuli Venezia Giulia (development, training and distribution calls)
The development half of the Friuli Venezia Giulia system: three calls a year for development, distribution and training, run by a fund that also hosts the When East Meets West forum.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Fondo per l'audiovisivo della Regione Emilia-Romagna (development and production calls)
Regione Emilia-Romagna, through Emilia-Romagna Film Commission
Since 2016 the region has funded development and production under its own film law, and it keeps a public catalogue of every supported work, with the development projects listed by company…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
FVG Film Fund (Friuli Venezia Giulia regional production fund)
Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, through Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission
A production fund scored on how much of the film happens in the region, with three closing dates a year and a ranking issued within 30 days of each.
up to€350kGrantbetween rounds
IDM Film Fund Südtirol Alto Adige (production, development and short film funding)
IDM Südtirol Alto Adige, Film Fund and Commission
Open to producers from any country, which is rare for a regional fund, as long as the shoot touches South Tyrol.
VariesGrantcloses in 72 days
Lazio Cinema International
Regione Lazio, through Lazio Innova
Lazio's fund for international co-productions shot in the region around Rome, meant to pull foreign partners toward local companies and to show the less visited parts of the region on…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Piemonte Doc Film Fund
Film Commission Torino Piemonte
The oldest Italian fund for documentary, running since 2007, with a development line that covers research, writing and a promo, and a production line for shooting and post in Piedmont.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Piemonte Film TV Development Fund
Film Commission Torino Piemonte, with Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Regione Piemonte
Development support for Piedmont producers aimed at projects that can travel as European co-productions, including with broadcasters.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Short Film Fund (Film Commission Torino Piemonte)
Film Commission Torino Piemonte, with Fondazione CRT
Production money for fiction, animated and experimental shorts up to 30 minutes shot in Piedmont, with at least four of six key crew roles filled locally and a stated plan for getting the…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Konkursi për subvencionimin e projekteve filmike (film project subsidy call: screenplay writing, project development, production)
Qendra Kinematografike e Kosovës, QKK (Kosovo Cinematography Center)
Kosovo's yearly call has 14 categories, and two pay for writing: screenplay support for a feature (fiction or animated) and, new in 2026, for a television series, beside a project…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Filmu attīstīšanas projektu atbalsta konkurss (film development project competition)
Nacionālais kino centrs (National Film Centre of Latvia)
Latvia's yearly development call, paying for script writing, research, character and visual design on features, long documentaries, animated features and series.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Filmu māksla, regulārais projektu konkurss (film art, regular project competition)
Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds, VKKF (State Culture Capital Foundation)
Latvia's arts foundation runs three open competitions a year, with film as one sector.
VariesGrantcloses in 82 days
Konkurss jaunu filmu ražošanas atbalstam (new film production competition)
Nacionālais kino centrs (National Film Centre of Latvia)
The National Film Centre's main production competition for Latvian features, long documentaries and animated features, with about EUR 1.26 million to share in 2026 and a March deadline.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Filmų gamybos darbai (film production)
Lietuvos kino centras (Lithuanian Film Centre)
The production half of Lithuania's twice yearly state call, with categories from mini budget and debut features to documentary series, animation, interactive film and, in autumn 2026, big…
VariesGrantcloses in 30 days
Scenarijaus kūrimo ir projektų vystymo darbai (script writing and project development)
Lietuvos kino centras (Lithuanian Film Centre)
Lithuania's state film money for the stages before shooting, from writing a feature or animated feature script to developing documentaries, series, interactive work and debut films.
VariesGrantcloses in 30 days
Aide aux auteurs, AUT (authors' writing aid)
Film Fund Luxembourg (Fonds national de soutien à la production audiovisuelle), with the Centre national de l'audiovisuel
Luxembourg's grant for a writer working alone: up to EUR 10,000 and two workshops to get a first full draft of a feature or series, without a company attached and with nothing to repay.
up to€10kGrantbetween rounds
Aide financière sélective à l'écriture et/ou au développement, AFS (selective writing and development aid)
Film Fund Luxembourg (Fonds national de soutien à la production audiovisuelle)
The producer-side writing and development aid in Luxembourg, up to EUR 60,000 per phase, scored by a five-member committee on a points grid.
up to€60kRepayablecloses in 36 days
Aide financière sélective à la production, AFS (selective production aid)
Film Fund Luxembourg (Fonds national de soutien à la production audiovisuelle)
The large end of Luxembourg's fund, where a feature or series can draw EUR 2.5 to 3 million against spending in the Grand Duchy.
up to€3MRepayablecloses in 36 days
Concursul proiectelor cinematografice (film project competition: project development and production)
Centrul Național al Cinematografiei (National Cinematography Center of Moldova)
Moldova's annual competition judges the screenplay first, then a pitch, then two scored stages, and publishes every list along the way, down to the sum each project asked for and received.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Javni konkursi za sufinansiranje kinematografskih djela (co-financing of cinematographic works)
Filmski centar Crne Gore (Film Centre of Montenegro)
Montenegro's centre describes an annual call in three parts, script development, project development and production, but the 2026 call opened only production categories: features with…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Realisering Speelfilm en Lange Animatiefilm (feature film production funding)
Nederlands Filmfonds (Netherlands Film Fund)
The Dutch fund's selective production grant for about twenty features a year, including five children's films and one or two long animations.
up to€1.2MGrantbetween rounds
Scenario-Ontwikkeling Speelfilm en Lange Animatiefilm (screenplay development for features and long animation)
Nederlands Filmfonds (Netherlands Film Fund)
The Dutch route from idea to first draft, worth up to EUR 35,000 for the writer, open to an experienced screenwriter without a producer.
up to€35kGrantany time
Slate funding voor Scenario-Ontwikkeling (slate funding for screenplay development)
Nederlands Filmfonds (Netherlands Film Fund)
Two years of script development money for a producer's whole slate rather than one film: up to EUR 420,000 to write four to six screenplays.
up to€420kGrantcloses in 128 days
HBF+Europe: Minority Co-production Support
Hubert Bals Fund, International Film Festival Rotterdam, with Creative Europe MEDIA
Production money that follows a European producer into a co-production with the global South. Only 25 percent of the grant needs spending in Europe; the rest can go where the film is made.
up to€60kGrantbetween rounds
HBF+Europe: Post-production Support
Hubert Bals Fund, International Film Festival Rotterdam, with Creative Europe MEDIA
Finishing money for co-productions that reached the edit, from the Rotterdam fund's European strand. Thirteen films since 2023, one of them the Tiger Award winner of 2026.
up to€60kGrantbetween rounds
Hubert Bals Fund Development Support (Script and Project)
Hubert Bals Fund, International Film Festival Rotterdam
One of the few international grants a writer-director can take alone and spend on writing: research, drafts, translation, a script consultant or a trip to pitch.
up to€10kGrantbetween rounds
IDFA Bertha Fund Classic (IBF Classic)
IDFA Bertha Fund, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
A documentary development grant the director applies for alone, with research, writing and a teaser all allowed costs, from the fund of the world's largest documentary festival.
up to€25kGrantcloses in 101 days
IDFA Bertha Fund Europe: Minority Co-production Support (IBF Europe)
IDFA Bertha Fund, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, with Creative Europe MEDIA
The European side of the IDFA Bertha Fund: a minority producer in Europe brings a documentary from the global South to the finish.
up to€40kGrantcloses in 75 days
NPO-fonds: fictie, documentaire en Team-up voor beginnende scenaristen (public broadcasters' fund)
NPO-fonds (fund of the Dutch public broadcasters)
The money behind most Dutch public-television drama and documentary, applied for by the broadcaster rather than the maker.
VariesGrantcloses in 9 days
Конкурс за финансирање на проекти од национален интерес во филмската дејност (call for financing film projects of national interest)
Агенција за филм на Република Северна Македонија (North Macedonia Film Agency)
North Macedonia's one big call covers features, documentaries, animation and shorts, with debut features funded up to 90 percent of budget and capped at MKD 25 million.
up toMKD62MGrantbetween rounds
Fond for lyd og bilde, Film (Fund for Sound and Image, film scheme)
Kulturdirektoratet (Arts Council Norway) on behalf of Fond for lyd og bilde
A rights holders' fund, financed as compensation for private copying, that pays for short films, documentaries, music videos, art film and text work tied to film projects.
VariesGrantcloses in 93 days
Idé- og manusutvikling dokumentar (idea and script development, documentary)
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
The documentary twin of NFI's fiction script grant: a single payment of NOK 100,000 or 150,000 to a writer or director for the idea and script stage of a documentary.
rangeNOK150kGrantbetween rounds
Manusutvikling fiksjon (script development, fiction)
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
Fixed sums paid straight to the writer to take a feature or series from idea to treatment and on to a revised first draft, with no producer required.
rangeNOK250kGrantbetween rounds
Neo utvikling (Neo development)
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
NFI's low budget talent program for first long films and series, in fiction, documentary and hybrid form.
VariesGrantany time
Produksjon av spillefilm etter kunstnerisk vurdering (feature film production, artistic assessment)
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
The main production grant for Norwegian features chosen on artistic grounds, with recent awards of NOK 7.5 million to 20 million.
up toNOK35MGrantbetween rounds
Utvikling av spillefilm etter kunstnerisk vurdering (feature film development, artistic assessment)
Norsk filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
NFI's development track for features of any genre judged on artistic quality, carrying a project through one or more phases until a production decision can be taken.
VariesGrantany time
Filminvest, tilskudd og investering (grants and investment)
The investment and grant fund for central Norway, covering drama and documentary series, features and cinema documentaries.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Filmkraft Rogaland, utvikling og produksjon (development and production grants)
The regional film centre for Rogaland, around Stavanger, paying development and production grants for shorts, long formats since 2024, and series, plus writing fees inside its audiovisual…
VariesGrantany time
Mediefondet Zefyr, tilskudd og investering (grants and investment)
Western and southern Norway's media fund, mixing earmarked state grants with a private investment arm that reports a 7.8 percent return.
VariesGrant or repayableany time
Nordisk Film & TV Fond, production funding
The pan Nordic top up for features, drama series and documentaries that already have national money and a second Nordic market lined up.
VariesRepayableany time
Sørfond
Norsk filminstitutt with Stiftelsen Festivalkontoret, financed by Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norway's fund for films from the developing world, aimed at freedom of expression and independent producers where both are under pressure.
up toNOK1MGrantbetween rounds
Fundusz Filmowy w Krakowie (Krakow Film Fund co-production competition)
Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe, KBF (Krakow Festival Office), for the City of Krakow
Krakow's city fund co-produces rather than grants: the festival office takes a stake and a share of rights in return for up to half the production cost.
VariesInvestmentbetween rounds
Konkurs Mazowieckiego i Warszawskiego Funduszu Filmowego (Mazovia and Warsaw Film Fund co-production competition)
Mazowiecki Instytut Kultury (Mazovian Institute of Culture), for the Mazovian Voivodeship and the City of Warsaw
Warsaw and its region put PLN 3.2 million a year into films shot or set there, entering as a co-producer rather than a grant-giver.
VariesInvestmentbetween rounds
Apoio à Escrita e Desenvolvimento de Obras Audiovisuais e Multimédia (series writing and development support)
ICA, Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
The television and streaming sibling of the film writing support: a producer draws up to EUR 30,000 to write and develop a series, or EUR 80,000 when a pilot is part of the plan.
up to€80kGrantbetween rounds
Apoio à Escrita e Desenvolvimento de Obras Cinematográficas (film writing and development support)
ICA, Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
Portugal's writing and development support pays a producer to fund the writer and the first development steps, with a plans track for slates of three or more projects and a singles track…
up to€50kGrantbetween rounds
Apoio ao Cinema: Produção (feature, short and documentary production support)
ICA, Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual
One entry for the ICA's production calls: two rounds a year for fiction features, two for documentaries, one each for fiction and animated shorts, plus animation features and completion.
up to€700kGrantbetween rounds
Program 1, produkcia audiovizuálnych diel (production of audiovisual works)
Audiovizuálny fond (Slovak Audiovisual Fund)
Production financing for Slovak features, documentaries, animation and shorts, with a ceiling of EUR 1.2 million for a feature-length work. Grants can come paired with a loan.
up to€1.2MGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Program 1, vývoj audiovizuálnych diel (development of audiovisual works: grant or creative scholarship)
Audiovizuálny fond (Slovak Audiovisual Fund)
Slovakia pays for development twice over: a flat grant to the producer, sized by the kind of work, and a creative scholarship an author can claim alone to write.
range€50kGrantcloses tomorrow
Javni razpis za sofinanciranje razvoja slovenskih igranih filmskih projektov (development of Slovenian fiction film projects: script and project development)
Slovenski filmski center (Slovenian Film Centre)
Slovenia splits development in two: a script strand a self-employed screenwriter can enter directly, worth up to EUR 20,000, and a project strand for producers worth up to EUR 40,000.
up to€40kGrantbetween rounds
Sofinanciranje realizacije filmskih in avdiovizualnih projektov (production of fiction, documentary and animated projects)
Slovenski filmski center (Slovenian Film Centre)
The realization calls are where Slovenian features, documentaries and animation get made, usually opening around the turn of the year.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Ayudas a la producción de cortometrajes sobre proyecto (short film production aid)
ICAA, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Spanish Ministry of Culture)
State money for a short before the shoot, applied for by a Spanish production company with the script in hand.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Ayudas generales para la producción de largometrajes sobre proyecto (general feature production aid)
ICAA, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Spanish Ministry of Culture)
Spain's main production money, paid in advance to the producer against a project rather than a finished film, with a points system that weighs the company's track record.
up to€1MGrantbetween rounds
Ayudas para la escritura de guiones de largometrajes (feature screenplay writing grants)
ICAA, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Spanish Ministry of Culture)
The one Spanish grant a screenwriter applies to with no producer: a fixed EUR 30,000 (EUR 20,000 for documentary) to write a feature, judged anonymously on a treatment and sample.
range€30kGrantbetween rounds
Ayudas selectivas para la producción de largometrajes sobre proyecto (selective feature production aid)
ICAA, Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (Spanish Ministry of Culture)
For the films the general aid overlooks: first features, documentaries, experimental and culturally driven projects, judged on the script and the team rather than box office history.
up to€800kGrantbetween rounds
Ayudas a la producción de largometrajes y de cortometrajes (feature and short production aid)
Comunidad de Madrid, Consejería de Cultura, Turismo y Deporte
Madrid's two production lines share a logic: the region backs films made by companies rooted there, and for shorts an individual with Madrid tax residence can apply alone.
up to€300kGrantbetween rounds
Subvenciones a la escritura de guion y al desarrollo de proyectos (screenplay writing and project development grants)
Institut Valencià de Cultura, IVC (Generalitat Valenciana)
Valencia pays a writer EUR 9,600 to draft a feature, miniseries, documentary or animated script, read anonymously as a treatment, a note of intent and a five-minute sample.
range€25kGrantbetween rounds
Subvenciones a la producción de largometrajes, documentales y otras obras audiovisuales en Andalucía (production grants)
Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales (Junta de Andalucía)
The largest Andalusian film budget to date, in three lines: first films by new directors that showcase regional talent, features that build the local industry, and documentaries.
up to€450kGrantbetween rounds
Subvenciones al desarrollo de proyectos de obras audiovisuales en Andalucía (audiovisual development grants)
Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales (Junta de Andalucía)
Andalusia pays a producer to carry a project from script to package, half up front.
up to€50kGrantbetween rounds
Subvenciones para el desarrollo de proyectos audiovisuales (audiovisual project development grants)
Basque Government, Department of Culture and Language Policy
Development money for features and series that puts the script first: at least 45 percent of the grant must go to writing the screenplay, 35 percent for animation and documentary.
up to€45kGrantbetween rounds
Subvencións á creación audiovisual para o desenvolvemento e a promoción do talento audiovisual galego (Galician talent grants)
AGADIC, Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (Xunta de Galicia)
The entry door for a new Galician filmmaker: an individual can apply alone for a short before shooting, with no company, and a producer can apply for a first feature.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Subvencións á produción e coprodución de proxectos audiovisuais galegos (Galician audiovisual production grants)
AGADIC, Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (Xunta de Galicia)
The main production pot for Galician film and series, with categories for theatrical features, minority international co-productions and works with a broadcaster or platform commitment.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Subvencións ao desenvolvemento de proxectos audiovisuais (audiovisual project development grants)
AGADIC, Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais (Xunta de Galicia)
Galicia funds the pre-production stretch of features and series for producers working from the region, in a single-project modality or a package of projects with a stated selection strategy.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Subvencions per a la producció de llargmetratges cinematogràfics (feature film production grants)
ICEC, Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Production money for fiction features in three tiers, from a culturally driven first film with a budget under EUR 1.8 million to a market-oriented picture above EUR 2.7 million.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Subvencions per al desenvolupament de projectes audiovisuals (audiovisual project development grants)
ICEC, Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Catalonia's development line pays a producer to take a treatment or script toward financing, and the rules tie 40 percent of the grant to script costs, so the writer is paid from it.
up to€50kGrantbetween rounds
Moving Sweden, stöd till utveckling (development support)
Svenska Filminstitutet with SVT (Swedish Film Institute)
A talent scheme run by the Swedish Film Institute and SVT for low budget fiction features (around SEK 12 million) and fiction led hybrids, for directors with a few films behind them but at…
rangeSEK500kGrantany time
Stöd till produktion av filmprojekt, lång spelfilm (production support, feature film)
Svenska Filminstitutet (Swedish Film Institute)
Advance production money for Swedish features, paid before the film is finished and repaid once the producer's revenues pass 135 percent of private capital plus license sales and minimum…
VariesRepayableany time
Stöd till utveckling av filmprojekt, dokumentärfilm (development support, documentary)
Svenska Filminstitutet (Swedish Film Institute)
Development money for Swedish documentaries, short and long, judged by a consultant and paid 80 percent on decision.
VariesGrantany time
Stöd till utveckling av filmprojekt, lång spelfilm (development support, feature film)
Svenska Filminstitutet (Swedish Film Institute)
The Swedish Film Institute's development money for features, covering synopsis, treatment, drafts, a dramaturg and research.
VariesGrantany time
Film i Skåne, utveckling och samproduktion (development and co-production)
Region Skåne's film company, where a screenwriter with a small firm can apply for feature development on their own, up to SEK 50,000 as a first step.
up toSEK50kInvestmentany time
Film i Väst, samproduktion (co-production investment)
Sweden's largest regional co-producer, with more than 1,600 features, series, documentaries and shorts since 1992.
VariesInvestmentany time
Film Stockholm, samproduktion och utvecklingsinvestering (co-production and development investment)
Film Stockholm AB
The capital region's film fund, which co-produces or makes a development investment in films, TV drama and other audiovisual work with a Stockholm footprint.
VariesInvestmentany time
Filmpool Nord, samproduktion (co-production)
Northern Sweden's co-producer for short fiction, documentary, features and TV drama, investing for rights and a share of returns.
VariesInvestmentany time
Selektive Filmförderung: Drehbuch, Projektentwicklung, Herstellung (federal selective film funding)
Bundesamt für Kultur, BAK / Office fédéral de la culture (Swiss Federal Office of Culture)
Switzerland's federal money, with a CHF 30,000 screenplay grant at the writing end and production grants that reach CHF 1.2 million.
up toCHF1.2MGrantcloses in 120 days
Aide sélective à la réalisation (selective production aid)
Cinéforom, Fondation romande pour le cinéma (the fund of French-speaking Switzerland)
The production money of French-speaking Switzerland, four sessions a year with 2027 dates already fixed.
VariesGrantcloses in 78 days
Berner Filmförderung: Entwicklungsförderung Stufe 1 und 2, Produktionsförderung (Bern film funding)
Kanton Bern, Amt für Kultur (canton of Bern)
A cantonal fund with a writer-first first step: a Bern author gets CHF 5,000 or CHF 10,000 to write a treatment, paid out as soon as it is granted, then up to CHF 30,000 for the script.
rangeCHF750kGrantbetween rounds
Soutien complémentaire à l'écriture (complementary writing support)
Cinéforom, Fondation romande pour le cinéma (the fund of French-speaking Switzerland)
A top-up rather than a competition: when a Romand producer puts its own success credits into paying a writer, Cinéforom adds 60 to 80 percent on top, up to CHF 25,000, with no deadline and…
up toCHF25kGrantany time
Zürcher Filmstiftung: Werkbeitrag, Projektentwicklung, Herstellung (Zurich Film Foundation)
Zürcher Filmstiftung (Zurich Film Foundation)
The richest regional fund in Switzerland treats the writer as an applicant in their own right: a CHF 30,000 stipend tied to the person rather than a project, and development money an…
up toCHF1MGrant or repayablecloses in 71 days
Filmfoerderung (documentary film funding)
Ernst Goehner Stiftung
A Swiss family foundation that will pay for the development of a documentary, not just its shoot or finish, as long as the subject is Swiss and the first release is in Switzerland.
VariesGrantany time
Конкурсний відбір кінопроєктів (competitive selection of film projects, pitching)
Державне агентство України з питань кіно, Держкіно (Ukrainian State Film Agency)
In peacetime this was Ukraine's main production pitching, scored by expert commissions and then pitched in public.
VariesGrantpaused
Мистецтво в кадрі, лот 2: препродакшн аудіовізуального контенту (Art in the Frame, lot 2: pre-production of audiovisual content)
Український культурний фонд (Ukrainian Cultural Foundation)
A wartime route to script money in Ukraine: the Cultural Foundation's audiovisual program pays producers to write and package new films, UAH 300,000 to 1 million each, while the state film…
rangeUAH1MGrantbetween rounds
İlk Uzun Metrajlı Kurgu Film Yapım Desteği (first feature fiction film production support)
T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Sinema Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Directorate General of Cinema)
Turkey's debut production line lets the director apply directly, which most production schemes do not.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Proje Geliştirme Desteği (project development support)
T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Sinema Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Directorate General of Cinema)
Development money for Turkish producers covering everything up to the first day of shooting, at no more than half the stated budget.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Senaryo ve Diyalog Yazımı Desteği (screenplay and dialogue writing support)
T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Sinema Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Directorate General of Cinema)
Turkey's national script grant goes to the writer alone, filed through the state e-government portal.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Uzun Metrajlı Sinema Film Yapım Desteği (feature film production support)
T.C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Sinema Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Directorate General of Cinema)
The ministry's main feature line funded 12 productions with TRY 115 million in its October 2026 decision.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
השקעה בהפקת סרטי עלילה באורך מלא (investment in feature film production)
Israel Film Fund (קרן הקולנוע הישראלי)
Israel's largest film fund puts up to ILS 3.5 million into a feature as a recoupable investment, with a lower ILS 1.5 million track for first and second films.
range₪3.5MInvestmentbetween rounds
השקעה בפיתוח סרטים עלילתיים באורך מלא (investment in the development of feature films)
Israel Film Fund (קרן הקולנוע הישראלי)
The country's main feature fund invests in writing from an extended synopsis to a full draft, and a screenwriter can apply without a producer in the general round.
VariesInvestmentbetween rounds
NFCT development, production and post-production grants (documentary)
New Fund for Cinema and TV (הקרן החדשה לקולנוע וטלוויזיה)
The documentary fund of Israel's non-profit sector, backing feature-length documentaries at development, production or post-production, with several reading rounds a year.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
מסלולי ההשקעה של קרן גשר (Gesher Multicultural Film Fund investment tracks)
A ministry-supported fund that invests across fiction, documentary, shorts and drama series, with a development track for scripts, a production track and a completion track.
VariesInvestmentcloses in 3 days
פרוייקט הקולנוע הישראלי (the Israel Cinema Project)
Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
A foundation-run fund supported by the culture ministry, with separate submissions for script and project development, production and completion of features, plus documentary and student…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
The Jordan Film Fund (JFF)
The Royal Film Commission, Jordan
Jordan's national fund, run on Royal Film Commission money since 2011, pays for developing, shooting, finishing and releasing Jordanian features and documentaries, Arab features as…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
AFAC Cinema grants
AFAC, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
The main independent fund for Arab fiction features, and one a director can apply to alone with a development ask of up to USD 10,000; up to 30 percent of any grant may pay the director's…
up to$50kGrantbetween rounds
AFAC Documentary Film grants
AFAC, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
AFAC's documentary strand runs on the spring call, two months ahead of the fiction one, with the same ceilings: USD 10,000 to develop a feature documentary, up to 50,000 to shoot it.
up to$50kGrantbetween rounds
Production Awards (cinema)
Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy)
A first-film grant for young Arab directors, paid for the production or finishing of a short, medium or feature film, fiction or documentary.
up to€13kGrantbetween rounds
Soutien à la production nationale: avance sur recettes et contribution à l'écriture (national production support: advance on receipts and writing contribution)
CCM, Centre Cinématographique Marocain (Moroccan Cinema Center)
Morocco finances its cinema through an advance on receipts paid to production companies before or after the shoot, three sessions a year, plus a contribution to writing and rewriting…
VariesGrant or repayablecloses in 65 days
Doha Film Institute Grants Programme
A rare worldwide grant for a first or second feature at the development stage, with real money behind it: up to USD 20,000 to write and package a narrative feature, more later for…
up to$100kGrantbetween rounds
Red Sea Fund
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.
VariesGrant or repayablebetween rounds
Aide à la production, long métrage (feature production aid)
FOPICA, Fonds de Promotion de l'Industrie Cinématographique et Audiovisuelle (Senegal)
The headline line of Senegal's fund: up to XOF 150 million toward a fiction or animated feature, paid out in four installments over a 24-month convention.
up toFCFA150MGrantbetween rounds
Aide au développement (development aid)
FOPICA, Fonds de Promotion de l'Industrie Cinématographique et Audiovisuelle (Senegal)
Senegal's state fund has a development line that an author can apply for directly, paying up to XOF 5 million for rewriting, scouting, casting and the hunt for co-producers before a film…
up toFCFA5MGrantbetween rounds
NFVF Development Funding
NFVF, National Film and Video Foundation (South Africa)
South Africa's national foundation pays for the writing stage itself: research, script editing and drafts for features, shorts, documentaries and TV formats, with a producer fee allowed in…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
NFVF Production Funding
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…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Film Production Financing Scheme and Financing Scheme 2.0
Hong Kong Film Development Council, Film Development Fund (Create Hong Kong)
Hong Kong co-finances commercial features as a government investor: Scheme 2.0 puts in 40 percent of a budget up to HKD 10 million for films costing HKD 8 to 25 million, the older scheme…
up toHK$10MInvestmentany time
日本映画製作支援事業 (Japanese film production support)
Japan Arts Council (独立行政法人日本芸術文化振興会), with the Agency for Cultural Affairs' arts promotion subsidy
Japan's state production subsidy for feature-length films, paid at fixed amounts that rise with the budget to JPY 60 million, with a smaller tier for young and emerging filmmakers.
range¥60MGrantcloses in 25 days
Dana Kandungan Kreatif, DKK (Creative Content Fund)
FINAS, Perbadanan Kemajuan Filem Nasional Malaysia (National Film Development Corporation Malaysia)
Malaysia's national film body channels its grants through the Creative Content Fund, which in its current form pays licensed companies for micro drama and Borneo TV production…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
CreatePHFilms Funding Program
FDCP, Film Development Council of the Philippines
The Philippines' film council funds project development and production through CreatePHFilms, and its development fund names Filipino writers among those who may apply, with a concept…
VariesGrantbetween rounds
Media Talent Progression Programme, Content Grants
IMDA, Infocomm Media Development Authority, and the Singapore Film Commission
Singapore folded its old development and production assistance into content grants that pay for production of features and shorts with Singapore talent attached: up to SGD 300,000 for a…
up toSGD600kGrantbetween rounds
한국영화 기획개발지원 제작사 부문 and 차기작 기획개발지원 (planning and development support for production companies, and next-project development support)
KOFIC, Korean Film Council (영화진흥위원회)
Two schemes for Korean production companies developing their next feature: a planning grant of KRW 20 million per script in two rounds a year, and a next-project fund that pays KRW 8 to 40…
range₩40MGrantbetween rounds
한국영화 기획개발지원사업 작가부문 (Korean film planning and development support, writers' section)
KOFIC, Korean Film Council (영화진흥위원회)
The Korean Film Council pays individual screenwriters KRW 10 million to write a first draft or an adaptation draft of a feature, with about 85 scripts funded a year in two rounds.
range₩10MGrantbetween rounds
Asian Cinema Fund Script Development Fund
Busan International Film Festival
A true script grant: KRW 10 million to finish a first or second feature screenplay, applied for by the writer-director with a five to ten page treatment and no producer required.
range₩10MGrantbetween rounds
Documentary Development Program
Screen Australia
Development money for documentaries headed for cinemas, television or direct-to-audience platforms such as YouTube and VR.
up toA$30kRepayableany time
Documentary Production Program
Screen Australia
Three lanes for documentary production: Producer First for films still closing finance, Platform First for commissioned programs, and Direct-to-Audience for work released on YouTube…
up toA$500kInvestmentcloses in 95 days
First Nations Documentary Development
Screen Australia, First Nations Department
Treatments, draft scripts, research and sizzle shooting for documentaries by First Nations key creatives, including emerging producers.
up toA$30kGrantcloses in 74 days
First Nations Feature Development
Screen Australia, First Nations Department
Draft money for feature screenplays by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers with a track record.
up toA$45kGrantcloses in 74 days
First Nations Feature Production Fund
Screen Australia, First Nations Department
Production and post-production investment for low-budget features written and directed by First Nations filmmakers.
VariesInvestmentany time
First Nations TV Drama Development
Screen Australia, First Nations Department
Series bibles, treatments and scripts for telemovies and television drama led by First Nations writers. The series cap of AUD 65,000 is the highest of the department's development strands.
up toA$65kGrantcloses in 74 days
Narrative Content Development
Screen Australia
The national agency's one development door for drama and comedy on any platform: cinema features, television and streaming series, and work released straight to online audiences.
rangeA$50kGrantany time
Narrative Content Production
Screen Australia
Production finance for features, television and direct-to-audience drama, in two feature lanes: Market First for packages with distribution attached and Creative First for bolder films…
VariesInvestmentcloses in 32 days
ABC First Look, Early Development Grant
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC) with the ABC
Early concept money aimed at one buyer: drama, comedy, children's, factual and documentary ideas for the ABC, developed in South Australia from an outline or treatment.
up toA$50kGrantcloses in 12 days
Development Fund
Screen Queensland
Since July 2024 Queensland's development money has been a straight grant with no copyright interest taken, unusual among the Australian state agencies.
up toA$50kGrantany time
Development On Demand
VicScreen
Victoria's open-door development scheme for fiction, documentary and VR, with no closing date.
up toA$50kRepayableany time
Development Program
Screen NSW
New South Wales pays only the NSW spend, so a Sydney-based writer's fee is exactly what it covers.
up toA$50kRepayableany time
Direct to Audience Production Program (Canberra Screen and Games Fund)
Screen Canberra, for the ACT Government
Grants for Canberra creators who publish their own short-form narrative, comedy, factual or animation online, with two local key creatives and no commission attached.
up toA$40kGrantcloses in 138 days
Diversity Development Grant
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC)
A development grant that opens after the first draft and asks for a South Australian writer or director from an underrepresented group, with D/deaf and disabled creatives first in line.
up toA$20kGrantbetween rounds
Documentary Development Investment Fund
Screenwest
Pitch decks, treatments, sizzle reels and the attaching of producers for Western Australian documentary features, singles, series and large-format work.
up toA$25kRepayablecloses in 50 days
Documentary Production Fund
Screenwest
Production money for Western Australian documentary singles, series, features and large-format films that already have a market partner, matched against that partner's cash.
up toA$400kGrantcloses in 43 days
First Nations Project Development Fund
Screenwest
Year-round development money for First Nations writers and producers in Western Australia, covering writers' rooms, new drafts, story developers and casting agents for scripted work, or…
up toA$35kRepayableany time
Matched Development Investment Fund
Screenwest
Once a broadcaster or distributor puts development money into a Western Australian project, Screenwest can match it within eight weeks of the deal. The investment is repaid on production.
up toA$50kRepayableany time
Matched Market Development Grant
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC)
Automatic rather than judged: if a project led from South Australia has development money confirmed from Screen Australia or the market, the SAFC matches it, subject to funds.
VariesGrantany time
Online Production Grants
Screen Queensland
A rare production grant a solo writer-creator can hold alone: episodic series for YouTube, TikTok or Instagram, or one-off XR, with no IP taken and marketing costs allowed.
rangeA$100kGrantbetween rounds
Originate Slate
VicScreen
Slate money for established Victorian drama and comedy companies: at least three early-stage series over 12 to 24 months, with VicScreen's grant matched by the company and not recouped.
up toA$150kGrantcloses in 22 days
Production Fund (Production Finance Fund and Regional Filming Fund)
Screen NSW
The state's production money is a grant, not equity: Screen NSW cash-flows it and the producer keeps ownership.
up toA$1.1MGrantcloses in 22 days
Screen Finance Fund
Screen Queensland
Production finance for features, series and documentaries that spend in Queensland, scaled to that spend.
up toA$850kGrant or repayableany time
Screen Production Fund
South Australian Film Corporation (SAFC)
South Australia's main production money, sized at up to a tenth of what a project spends in the state and open all year.
VariesGrantany time
Screenability Filmmakers Fund
Screen NSW
A short-film production fund for New South Wales teams led or co-led by a filmmaker with a disability.
VariesGrantpaused
Scripted Concept Development Fund
Screenwest
Small early money, AUD 10,000 at most, to take a long-form idea to market-ready pitch materials in Western Australia.
up toA$10kGrantcloses in 121 days
Scripted Production Fund
Screenwest
Grant finance of up to AUD 700,000 for features and series shot in Western Australia with a buyer already attached.
up toA$700kGrantcloses in 85 days
Scripted Project Development Fund
Screenwest
Development money for Western Australian features and television series that already have real material: outlines, a pilot, a bible or a draft screenplay. Four rounds a year.
up toA$35kRepayablecloses tomorrow
Short Film Fund
Screen Queensland
Grants of up to AUD 50,000 for 5 to 15 minute shorts aimed at cinema screens, with a polished screenplay required at application and no treatments accepted.
up toA$50kGrantbetween rounds
TV and Film Production Program (Canberra Screen and Games Fund)
Screen Canberra, for the ACT Government
Canberra's production grant for scripted and unscripted work with a confirmed path to audience, from a commercial half hour upward, paying up to AUD 300,000 without recoupment.
up toA$300kGrant or repayablecloses in 138 days
Victorian Production Fund, Screen
VicScreen
Production investment tied to how much a film or series spends in Victoria: between 3 and 10 percent of that spend, cash-flowed into the production while the producer keeps the equity.
up toA$500kInvestmentany time
Aotearoa Scripted Series Initiative
NZ On Air with Sky and Dynamic Television
A new co-development fund, announced October 29, 2026, for up to three one-hour New Zealand drama series with international legs.
up toNZ$75kGrantcloses in 32 days
Diverse Content funding rounds (Ngahau, Whāngai, Kura Pounamu, Mōhiohio, Reo Māori Content Co-Fund)
Te Māngai Pāho (Māori Broadcasting Funding Agency)
The Māori broadcasting agency funds te reo Māori content by language level rather than platform, through themed rounds: Ngahau for entertainment, Whāngai for learners, Mōhiohio for factual…
VariesGrantcloses in 32 days
Feature Film Development Fund
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
The commission's single development door, folded from the old Early and Advanced schemes, and one a writer can walk through alone.
up toNZ$35kGrantany time
Feature Film Finishing Grant
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
Finishing money for low-budget New Zealand features made outside the commission's production funding: grading, sound, effects polish and festival costs, once a festival has said yes.
up toNZ$60kGrantany time
Feature Film Production Investment
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
The commission's main production money for features with significant New Zealand content, as equity up to NZD 2.5 million or a grant up to NZD 500,000, decided by the board five times a…
up toNZ$2.5MGrant or repayablecloses in 8 days
He Kauahi, Catalyst Short Film Funding
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
The commission's short film grant, up to NZD 90,000 for narrative shorts with festival prospects, judged on talent development, critical potential and innovation.
up toNZ$90kGrantbetween rounds
He Pounamu Te Reo Māori Feature Film Production Investment
Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga, New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC)
A dedicated production lane for dramatic features told in te reo Māori and led by Māori filmmakers, on the same money terms and calendar as the commission's general feature investment.
up toNZ$2.5MGrant or repayablecloses in 8 days
Scripted and Non-fiction funding (Creation stream)
Irirangi Te Motu, NZ On Air
New Zealand's public media fund backs local television, on-demand and online content through three rounds a year, and sets aside about NZD 1 million of it for content development, mostly…
rangeNZ$50kGrantcloses in 88 days
European Co-development (CREA-MEDIA-2027-CODEV)
Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission
Money for one project developed jointly by producers in two or more European countries, so a writer whose story crosses a border can be paid while two companies share the work.
VariesGrantcloses in 121 days
European Mini-slate Development (CREA-MEDIA-DEVMINISLATE)
Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission
The smaller sibling of slate development: two or three projects on one grant, which suits a young company with a couple of writers attached rather than a studio.
VariesGrantbetween rounds
European Slate Development (CREA-MEDIA-2027-DEVSLATE)
Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission
The largest development pot in Europe, paid to production companies rather than writers: a company develops three to five projects at once on one grant, which keeps writers employed across…
VariesGrantcloses in 30 days
European Video Games and Immersive Content Development (CREA-MEDIA-2027-DEVVGIM)
Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission
Development money for interactive storytelling rather than film: narrative video games and immersive experiences with a story at their core.
VariesGrantcloses in 93 days
TV and Online Content (CREA-MEDIA-2027-TVONLINE)
Creative Europe MEDIA, European Commission
Series and television films draw their EU production money here, paid to the producer once broadcasters in more than one country are on board.
VariesGrantcloses in 101 days
Eurimages Co-production Support
Eurimages, the Council of Europe's cultural support fund
Forty member states, Canada, Turkey, Ukraine and Switzerland among them, pay into this Council of Europe fund for co-produced features.
VariesGrant or repayablecloses in 73 days
Where you write
Every fund a writer based there can apply to, including the European and international ones.
- Argentina 24
- Australia 48
- Austria 45
- Belgium 43
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 34
- Brazil 24
- Bulgaria 36
- Canada 61
- Chile 25
- Colombia 24
- Croatia 40
- Czech Republic 38
- Denmark 44
- Dominican Republic 24
- Estonia 40
- Finland 42
- France 49
- Georgia 26
- Germany 59
- Greece 38
- Hong Kong 19
- Hungary 37
- Iceland 34
- Ireland 48
- Israel 22
- Italy 45
- Japan 19
- Jordan 28
- Kosovo 24
- Latvia 38
- Lebanon 27
- Lithuania 37
- Luxembourg 38
- Malaysia 25
- Mexico 24
- Moldova 24
- Montenegro 34
- Morocco 27
- Netherlands 39
- New Zealand 25
- North Macedonia 34
- Norway 39
- Peru 24
- Philippines 25
- Poland 37
- Portugal 38
- Qatar 21
- Saudi Arabia 21
- Senegal 25
- Singapore 19
- Slovakia 37
- Slovenia 37
- South Africa 25
- South Korea 19
- Spain 48
- Sweden 44
- Switzerland 25
- Turkey 28
- Ukraine 35
- United Kingdom 39
- United States 37
- Uruguay 24
Writing grants
Money paid to a writer to write: a first draft, a rewrite, a treatment or a series bible.
Development funding
Money for a project before it is financed: script drafts, a director and cast search, a budget, a pitch package.
Production funding
The money that gets a film or series shot.
Post-production and completion funding
Money to finish a film that has been shot: the edit, sound, music, colour and deliverables.
Distribution funding
Money to get a finished film to its audience: a theatrical release, a festival run, subtitling, marketing.
How this list is kept
Facts come from the funder. Amounts, dates, who may apply and what the money is are read on each fund's own website, which every entry links to, along with the day it was last checked. The descriptions are written by us.
Money you apply for, not tax breaks. Tax credits, rebates and automatic incentives are left out: a writer does not apply to them. Labs, fellowships and contests are on the events pages. A fund that charges to apply is listed only when its site names past recipients.
It is checked every day. New funds are added, changed rounds are corrected, a paused fund says so. Funds change their rules between cycles, so read the guidelines on the official page before you write the application.
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Also useful
Fellowships and labsPrograms that pick a few writers and work with them for months, on the events pages.Where Creative Europe's development money goesEvery MEDIA development grant since 2014, by country, company and year.How to write a treatmentThe document a development application is built on, step by step.Screenwriting eventsContests, labs, festivals and conferences, with their deadlines.