We made the resource we wished we'd had when we were starting out.
Most short filmmakers don't lose out on funding because their work isn't ready. They lose out because they never find the grant in time.
The information is scattered. The deadlines are buried three clicks deep on industry body sites that haven't been redesigned since 2014. Sundance is easy to find. Frameline, Mountainfilm, Doha Film Institute, Te Tumu Whakaata, World Cinema Fund — these you have to hunt for. And the hunt costs days you don't have.
So we built the directory we wished existed. 50+ grants, funds and fellowships, organised by region and by theme, each with the link, the deadline, the focus, the entry requirements, and the approximate amount on offer. Curated, not scraped. We checked each one ourselves.
You'll find the obvious heavyweights — Sundance, BFI, Screen Australia, Telefilm Canada. You'll also find the smaller, less-contested funds that quietly hand out £1,000 to £25,000 to filmmakers who knew they existed: BFI Micro Short Fund, Mountainfilm Grant, Future of Film Is Female, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Slick Films / Bolton, First Flights, NYWIFT, Austin Film Society. The list goes on.
We made it $7 on purpose. It's the price of a coffee. It's not the price of the time it would take you to assemble this list yourself. One application sent on time more than pays for it.
We hope it helps you make the next thing.
— The FilmFore Team
50+ entries. 9 regions. Every theme.
Each entry is one tight panel: name, link, deadline, focus, requirements, amount. No fluff. Designed to be skimmed quickly and revisited often.
9 regions covered
US, UK, EU, AU, NZ, CA, Ireland, MENA, and worldwide international programmes.
Sorted by theme
Women & non-binary, documentary, LGBTQ+, BIPOC/First Nations, environment, AI-assisted, and emerging filmmakers.
Updated April 2026
Deadlines verified within the last 30 days. We refresh this directory every quarter.
Built for filmmakers, by filmmakers.
I'd been piecing together grant lists from random blogs for months. This is the first resource that actually felt complete. I found two grants I'd never heard of and have already submitted one application.
What surprised me wasn't just the list — it was the checklist. It forced me to realise where my application was weak. I tightened everything up and finally felt confident hitting submit.
For $7, it's a no-brainer. I wasted more than that in time scrolling through outdated links. This is clean, current, and actually useful if you're serious about getting funded.
One application sent on time
pays for this fifty times over.
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