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How to apply

You can apply online once you have read the funding guidelines in full. There is an application link in the guidelines.

Copy of guidelines

If you have any questions relating to this funding or your application, email [email protected].

Application form parts

Documents you’ll need to provide

You will be asked to attach the following documents to your application:

• a fully developed concept document
  • this may include a script, treatment or other documents that set out the creative intention of your project and its path to execution
• a detailed budget generated using either Excel or MovieMagic, submitted as a PDF
  • this should reflect the cost requirements for your project in line with what you can use the funding for
  • this must be the full budget, not just the top sheet
• a proposed finance plan, which matches the total of your submitted budget and details the status of any actual or proposed third party finance
• a production timeline, detailing all stages of production through to final delivery
• a short chain of title summary (a brief document listing who owns the underlying rights in the project and how those rights have been (or will be) passed to you)
  • you should list any signed agreements (such as an option agreement, a development agreement, or any writer agreements) held by you or any third parties, although you do not need to submit these at application stage), if applicable
  • if your application progresses to stage 4, we will ask you to provide further evidence of your ownership in the underlying rights in the project before any funding offer or payment from the BFI
• any other materials (in addition to those provided in the creative proposal section) expressing your ideas for the project

Project databases

The following tables are connected through relations and automations. When you add a location or contact, a corresponding budget line is automatically added to the Expenditure table. You can connect Income sources to Expenditure lines, which can be helpful if you like to design your projects in a modular way to respond flexibly as funding is approved or denied.

Contacts (BFI Expanded Screen)

Locations (BFI Expanded Screen)

Income (BFI expanded screen)

Expenditure (BFI expanded screen)

Long-form questions (BFI expanded screen