Film Travel Grant Fund
Deadline
December 21, 2025
53 days left
Application Fee
FREE
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Interest
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About This Opportunity
**A new-look Travel Grant Fund, offering grants to filmmakers and XR creatives to support travel to selected international festivals and showcase events, labs, and co-production forums.**
Our Travel Grant Fund is supported by BFI National Lottery funding in partnership with BFI NETWORK and the BFI International Fund.
If you are a filmmaker or an XR creative, it is designed to enable you to represent your work abroad, develop new contacts and networks, and to reach new audiences. It is particularly created to increase the exposure of new and emerging UK films, XR projects and talent on an international stage.
We have separated the fund into five strands, accessed via two simple application processes
What You'll Get
Types: FUNDING
**Short Film Festival Grants** * for new/emerging writers or directors, and for producers of any experience level, to attend eligible festivals to support a short film screening **Feature Film Festival Grants** * for producers, to attend eligible festivals to support a feature film screening **Interactive/immersive/XR Grants** * for XR creatives to attend eligible festival/showcase events with an interactive/immersive/XR project **Lab Grants** * for producers, writers, or directors working on new feature projects to attend eligible creative development labs **Co-Production Forum Grants** * for producers with feature projects looking for finance and partners to attend eligible market/co-production forums
Application Requirements
- APPLICATION_FORMS
- ARTWORK_PORTFOLIO
- PROJECT_DESCRIPTION
- CV
- There are no deadlines - this is a rolling fund. Applications must be made in advance of travel - and we can not fund events that have already taken place.
Eligibility
Other Requirements
This depends on which strand you are applying to. There are two **Key Lists** of eligible events which we review throughout the year. We've tried to make sure that the major moments in Film and XR are covered, alongside some more specialist events offering a platform for a diversity of voices. We know that while travel obviously contributes to the climate emergency, some face-to-face experience is incredibly valuable, especially for people at the start of their creative journey. Witnessing an international festival audience watching your film or walking through your VR project, or workshopping with a future collaborator at labs and co-pro forums first hand, is an essential part of the creative process. Accepting that, we're keen to keep sustainability in mind and have worked with **Julie’s Bicycle** to produce this **Greener Travel Grants Guide** to help filmmakers plan for the impact of their travel to festivals, labs and co-production forums. Travel Grant recipients are encouraged to travel to European events by train and there is additional funding available to help with this.
British Council
London, GB
Verified Organization
Active since 2020
Ready to take the next step?
Don't miss out on this opportunity. Applications close on December 21, 2025.