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The BFI provides funding for film and TV development and production, which includes international co-productions and completion funding.

Director Tinge Krishnan, DOP Catherine Derry and actress Michaela Coel on the set of Been So Long (2018), a feature supported by the BFI Film Fund

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.

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BFI 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.

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BFI 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.

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UK Global Screen Fund: International Co-production strand

Supporting UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions and help create new global projects.

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Closed funds

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.

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BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund

This fund seeks UK partners to deliver targeted project development labs.

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BFI NETWORK England short film funding

Awarding National Lottery funding to support shortform live action, animation and immersive/virtual reality.

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BFI 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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Related resources

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.

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Our core priorities and funding outcomes

We have six core priorities we use to assess applications to the Film Fund.

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Sources 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.

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International co-productions

The BFI can award National Lottery funding to support original live action or animation filmmaking to majority and minority UK co-productions.

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We Are Albert

The authority on environmental sustainability for film and TV.

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BFI National Lottery Sustainable Screen

Supporting National Lottery awardees and industry to be more sustainable.

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