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List of Best Feature Film Grants

Filmmakers from anywhere in the world can apply for feature film funding, neat lists for you to find the perfect grant for your film.

Feature Film Funding Companies

Nederlands Filmfonds

The Fund supports the realisation of minority co-production feature films, long animated films and documentaries.

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.

Berlinale Talents Lab

Berlinale Talents is aimed at emerging film actors, audience designers, composers, cinematographers, directors, distributors, editors, film critics, producers, production designers, sales agents, screenwriters, sound designers and digital set designers with an existing portfolio of work.

SFFILM Rainin Grant

The program is open to filmmakers in the US and internationally who can commit to spending time developing the film in San Francisco.

Telefilm Canada

This program supports Canadian production companies looking to finance the production and/or postproduction stage of their feature film projects.

The Nancy Malone Marketing & Promotion Grant

The Nancy Malone Marketing & Promotion Grant funds first-time, US-based dramatic feature filmmakers, as well as festival entries such as marketing materials, video duplication, publicists, promotion at the film's opening, or other approved marketing and promotional expenses.

Doha Film Institute Grants Programme

The Programme provides creative and financial assistance for short and feature-length films by Qatari and international first- and second-time directors, as well as established MENA directors.

Filmmakers Without Borders

Filmmakers Without Borders supports independent filmmakers around the world via grants and other funding initiatives.

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.

Creative Capital

Creative Capital fund artists in the creation of groundbreaking new work in the visual arts, performing arts, film, technology and socially-engaged work in all forms.

Climate Story Fund

We are looking for creative nonfiction projects that can complete production this year with support from the Climate Story Fund. Awards in this round of the fund will range between $20,000 and $100,000.

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. 

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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