Producers can apply for between £5,000 and £25,000, for stand alone fiction short films in live action, animation or immersive/virtual reality, that have directors based in England. If your director is based in Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales, or your project is a documentary, use our funding finder page to find relevant opportunities.
Projects can be up to 15 minutes in length and teams must be made up of at least two people across the three creative roles of writer, producer, and director (director-producers are not eligible to apply).
The fund is intended to stimulate new ideas and stories, so it doesn’t support adaptations of existing material, apart from of the writer’s own previous work.
We can only accept applications for projects that are scheduled to start production between 1 October 2025 and 30 June 2026.
BFI NETWORK England short film funding opens at 9am on 11 February 2025, and closes at 11am on 25 March 2025.
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