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Development Fund

The BFI Development Fund awards money from the National Lottery to support formal development of original live action, emerging media and animation feature filmmaking from treatments to production-ready screenplays.

Production Fund

The BFI Production Fund awards money from the National Lottery to support original live action, emerging media and animation feature filmmaking.

Completion Fund

The BFI Completion Fund supports the completion of fiction, emerging media and animated feature films that have been invited to launch at a major international film festival.

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.

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.

Short Form Animation Funding – Immersive Projects

The BFI Short Form Animation Fund supports higher-budget animated shorts from teams based in the UK. It is currently closed for applications.

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.

Our funding priorities

We have 5 core priorities we use to assess applications to the Film Fund.

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.

International co-productions

The BFI can award money from the National Lottery to support original live action, emerging media or animation filmmaking for majority and minority UK co-productions.