BFI Short Form Animation Fund showreel 2025
Thanks to National Lottery funding, the BFI Short Form Animation Fund helps support cutting-edge work by a wide range of animators and makers across the UK. BFI
29th September 2025
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2025
UK Global Screen Fund backs further 11 international co-productions
The BFI has made a further 11 awards through its UK Global Screen Fund. Financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards allocate over £1.65 million through the fund’s International Co-production strand, supporting UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions and help create new global projects. To date the strand...
26th June 2025
BFI Creative Challenge Fund reopens
The BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund reopens today seeking applications from UK screen organisations to create and deliver targeted project development programmes for features or immersive projects. Awarding between £12,000 to £150,000 per programme, applicants must respond to one of multiple challenges to create development labs to focus on: early career producers; independent producers with ambitious projects...
14th April 2025
New BFI Places Fund supports emerging production centres across the UK
The BFI today announces recipients of the new BFI Places Fund: Skills and Training, which seeks to help develop new and emerging production centres across the UK. Created to support targeted regional growth, it is funding organisations in Bristol, Cornwall and Swindon, which will enable them to develop longer-term strategic plans for the local area...
19th February 2025
2024
UK Global Screen Fund backs further 11 international co-productions
The BFI has made a further 11 awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, boosting global opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. Financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards allocate over £1.7 million through the fund’s International Co-production strand, supporting UK producers to work as partners on international co-productions and help...
14th August 2024
UK Global Screen Fund announces latest awards
The BFI has made 19 new awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, supporting international opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. Financed through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards see a further £527,564 being allocated through the £7m per year fund’s International Business Development and International Distribution strands. Financial support for...
22nd July 2024
UK Global Screen Fund trailer
Trailer for the UK Global Screen Fund, financed by the UK Government’s department for Culture, Media & Sport and delivered by the BFI BFI
10th July 2024
BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund opens call to explore use of AI in screen archives
The BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund today opens its second call for applications. Established to provide solutions which tackle the UK screen sector’s most critical challenges, the area of focus for this round is AI in Screen Archives, setting out to unlock the potential of using AI in screen archives and identify where the key challenges lie. “This...
9th July 2024
BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund
The film industry is constantly evolving, with new talent emerging and pushing boundaries in storytelling and creativity. To support these emerging filmmakers and nurture their projects, the BFI National Lottery Creative Challenge Fund has been established. This fund aims to provide financial support and development opportunities for filmmakers working on...
1st May 2024
BFI National Lottery Short Form Animation Fund
Animation has become an increasingly popular and influential medium in the world of filmmaking. Recognizing its importance as an art form, the British Film Institute (BFI) has opened funding opportunities for short form animation projects through the BFI National Lottery Short Form Animation Fund. With funding ranging from £30,000 to...
24th April 2024
BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund
BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund: Supporting the UK Screen Sector The BFI National Lottery Innovation Challenge Fund has recently opened its first call for projects, aiming to address critical challenges faced by the UK screen sector. With a focus on the video games industry, this fund seeks to provide...
25th March 2024
2023
UK Global Screen Fund Announces Latest Awards for International Promotion of Independent UK Feature Films
30 November 2023, LONDON. The BFI has made 10 new awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, supporting international opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. Financed through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards see a further £208,217 being allocated through the fund’s International Distribution strand....
30th November 2023
UK Global Screen Fund Backs Further Nine International Co-Productions
LONDON – Tuesday 25 July 2023. The BFI has made a further nine awards through its UK Global Screen Fund, boosting global opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. Financed through the UK government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), the awards allocate over £1.2 million through the fund’s...
25th July 2023
BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund Opens
LONDON – The BFI today opens its new BFI National Lottery Filmmaking Fund, with £36.6m over three years for fiction feature films offering crucial support for the independent sector UK-wide. It will be available through four focused funds: Development; Creative Challenge – funding labs; Discovery – backing debuts; and Impact...
21st March 2023
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