Open funds
Development funding
BFI Development Funding awards money from the National Lottery to support formal development of original live action and animation feature filmmaking from treatments to production-ready screenplays.
Find out moreBFI Filmmaking Fund - Discovery and Impact feature funding
BFI Discovery and Impact feature funding awards money from the National Lottery to support original live action and animation feature filmmaking.
Find out moreBFI Doc Society - Features Fund
The BFI Doc Society Fund provides support for progressive and creative documentary filmmaking across the whole of the UK. Visit the BFI Doc Society Fund.
Visit Doc SocietyUK Global Screen Fund: International Co-production strand
Supporting UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions and help create new global projects.
Find out more and applyBFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund
This fund seeks UK partners to deliver targeted project development labs.
Find out more and applyBFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund – webinar
Want to learn more about this fund? We'll be hosting a webinar for applicants on Tuesday 6 May at 4pm.
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Future Takes
BFI and Film4 Future Takes offers support for higher-budget live action, short-form work from teams of writers, directors and producers based in the UK.
Find out moreBFI NETWORK England short film funding
Awarding National Lottery funding to support shortform live action, animation and immersive/virtual reality.
Find out moreBFI National Lottery short form animation funding
The BFI National Lottery Short Form Animation Fund supports higher-budget animated shorts from teams based in the UK. It is currently closed for applications.
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BFI Locked Box
Find out how a share of income from productions supported by the BFI Film Fund can be put aside and used for future projects or staff training.
Find out moreOur core priorities and funding outcomes
We have six core priorities we use to assess applications to the Film Fund.
Find out moreSources of funding for UK filmmakers
Public film funding – there are a number of sources for project development and production support in the UK which can often be combined.
Find out moreInternational co-productions
The BFI can award National Lottery funding to support original live action or animation filmmaking to majority and minority UK co-productions.
Find out moreBFI National Lottery Sustainable Screen
Supporting National Lottery awardees and industry to be more sustainable.
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