The BFI is seeking organisations to design and run development programmes for UK creatives who have narrative, documentary or animation feature film projects or narrative immersive media projects. The aim is to support the programme participants with the advancement of their projects through a structured development environment, enabling them to go on to receive financial support from the marketplace.
Key Criteria
All projects must address at least three of the following aims:
- Equity, diversity and inclusion: people from under-represented groups across the UK access the support they need to develop their careers and skills.
- Impact and audience: people across the UK access a wider choice of film and the moving image, including stories that reflect their lives.
- Talent development and progression: creative talent is supported and nurtured, as they emerge and throughout their careers and more people understand how to express their creativity through stories on screen.
- Creative Risk: people are better enabled to innovate and experiment creatively; a wider range of stories on screen are told that otherwise would not be.
- UK-wide: everyone across the UK should be able to experience and create the widest range of screen culture. They should feel the benefits from the screen sector in terms of jobs and growth too.
- Environmental sustainability: screen organisations significantly reduce their carbon footprint.
All programme activity must be delivered within 12 months, unless you are applying for more than one edition. Applications can be for between £12,000 and £150,000 for one edition.
BFI can consider awards for up to three editions of your programme for no more than £150,000 per edition.
Applications for over £200,000 will only be accepted for programmes which demonstrate exceptional project advancement, professional development of the participants, national profile and scale and are supported by a good range of partners. Awards over £200,000 are rare so they recomend discussing your project with the Creative Challenge Fund team before applying
