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Best Film Grants for African Filmmakers

Great list for filmmakers to find film funding in Africa.

It's easy, just see the grants's requirements and then enter the documents they require to fund your film.

Film Funding Africa

Movies that Matter

We offer a start-up grant for new human rights film festivals / events and an impact grant for existing events that want to increase their impact or want to add new activities to their programmes.

World Cinema Fund

The World Cinema Fund supports exclusively the production and distribution of feature films and feature-length documentaries.

Hot Docs-Blue Ice Docs Fund

The Hot Docs-Blue Ice Docs Fund invests in African documentary filmmakers to tell their stories and contribute to the next generation of African documentary talent. 

Art Moves Africa

AMA gives grants to artists and arts professionals (curators, cultural operators and journalists) of all artistic disciplines who live and work in Africa, to travel within the African continent.

Vision Sud East

The fund supports film productions from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, aims at making them visible worldwide and guarantees their distribution in Switzerland. 

IDFA Bertha Fund

The IDFA Bertha Fund is the only fund in the world dedicated solely to stimulating and empowering the creative documentary sector in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Oceania.

Alter-Ciné Foundation

The Foundation awards a grant aimed at young filmmakers born and living in Africa, Asia or Latin America who want to direct a film in the language of their choice that respects the aims of the Foundation.

Upcoming Grants

Upcoming Film Grants Open
SFFILM Documentary Film Fund Documentaries in Post Production Fund 6 June, 2023
Hot Docs Ted Rogers Fund Documentary Fund for Canadian Filmmakers 7 June, 2023
AAAS Science Journalism Awards Fund for Journalists 16 June, 2023
Vision Sud East Co Production and Distribution with Switzerland 28 June, 2023
American Zoetrope Screenwriting Contest Screenwriting Competition 1 July, 2023
Mountainfilm Commitment Grant Fund Environmental Documentaries 1 July, 2023
Hubert Bals Fund Develop Funding for European Filmmakers 1 July, 2023
Berlinale Talents Lab Talent Development Program in Berlin 4 July, 2023
EuroDoc Documentary Development for European Filmmakers 5 July, 2023
William Greaves Research and Development Fund Documentary African Descent 5 July, 2023

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