KFTV Report: Worldwide funding and support initiatives for the industry

 

KFTV has compiled a list of funding and support initiatives launched worldwide to help the international film industry at this time. 

We want to grow this list – please email kftv@mbi.london with basic information about any initiatives we should add to the list.

Please bookmark this page to check for updates. 

Production/freelancer support

• French government sets up temporary compensation fund for film shoots
• New Hollywood relief funds
• Flanders' VAF launches €2m emergency production fund
  
• $50m relief package for NZ industry
• Hungary offers HUF50m releif fund
• US Senate approves $500bn coronavirus aid package
• Netflix and Italian Film Commission launch relief fund
• Screen Ireland provides €4.5m coronavirus support measures
• Sundance Institute launches $1m emergency coronavirus relief fund
• Bectu, Pact join forcces to lobby UK government over freelancers
• Netflix contributes €1m to Netherlands relief fund
• Netflix donates to Brazil, Mexico industry workers
• S4C launches £6m relief package
• Screen Scotland launches £1m development fund
• Netflix backs COVID-19 film and TV relief fund for France
• UK’s film and TV emergency fund launches
• Malta film and TV industry to receive funding support
• Italy’s Veneto region offering €5m fund for European productions
• Creative Scotland launches multiple funds for screen sector workforce
• UK government unveils plans to support self-employed
• Barcelona proposing tax free shoots
• Netflix pledges $100m relief package
• Location managers set up fund for freelancers
• ITV announces £500k fund
• BBC aid package for indie sector 
• South Africa funding available

Online mentoring, consultations and advice

• Film4 advice from experts on how to write during a crisis
• Documentary Association Europe, free online consultations
• Ffolio from Ffilm Cymru, free talent surgeries
• Field of Vision, free online mentoring
• Film and TV Charity helpline (UK only), free financial advice and mental health support - 0800 054 0000
• Jeanie Finlay, free online mentoring
• Rocliffe, free online advice sessions
• Sophie Holland Casting, free online advice sessions

Remote learning/conferences/film festivals 

• Screen International’s Talks
• New Horizons, “insulating sessions”
• Film Distributors’ Association, Film Distribution: Connecting Films with Audiences (free course)
• Curzon Home Cinema, live Q&A series
• IBC365, free webinars
• Media Production & Technology Show, free fireside chats and training talks
• St John’s International Women’s Film Festival,  cozy chats
• NFTS, virtual open days, April 1-30
• Sheffield Doc/Fest, MeetMarket and Alternate Realities Talent Market online in June
• Visions du Reel, industry programme online April 25-30
• Screen Skills Ireland, free online courses
• Raindance, free live Instagram sessions daily, lockdown sessions (free for members), free live Facebook Filmmaker Sessions
• ARRI Masterclasses for cinematographers (selected classes for free)
• Arts Marketing Association - free webinars
• Curtis Brown Creative free weekly writing workout programme
• Hopscotch Films/Mark Cousins - 40 Days to Learn Film series free on Vimeo
• Sundance Co//ab, free webinars and masterclasses
• Together Films, free webinars
• ScreenSkills Indie Training Fund
• CPH: Conference continues on Facebook through March 26
• DOC NYC seminar New Strategies for Distribution in response to Covid-19, March 27
• Independent Cinema Office (ICO) is offering its REACH: Strategic Audience Development course (usually £50 to access) for free online to its newsletter subscribers
• Series Mania Digital Forum, March 25-April 7 (industry professionals can request access)

Opportunities for creatives

• Lockdown Stories by New Nordic Wave
• My Film Project, Quarantine Film Challenge
• Roadmap Writers, free 30-day short script writers’ challenge
• 48 Hour Isolation Film Challenge
• Galway’s One Minute Film Festival
• BBC Writers Room call for short-form scripts about characters in isolation

Corporate initiatives

• Facebook #TogetherAtHome
• Sony Corporation, $100m global relief fund
• Park Circus, Until We’re Back at the Movies
• Film Sprites PR, free promotion for films with cancelled festival premieres
• Strike Media - new industry-wide newsletter about UK home entertainment releases
• Netflix - $100m fund for creatives
• Adobe - offering Creative Cloud subscribers two months free
• Crowdfunder and Enterprise Nation - free fundraising for businesses
• MUBI - Offering three month subscription for £1

Online film industry communities & film clubs

• American Film Institute, AFI Movie Club
• D-Word, online discussions about COVID-19 issues as well as mental health
• Cinema Technology Community - free membership during Covid-19 crisis
• UK Cinemas Network Facebook group
• Glasgow Film Theatre: At Home With GFT
• Peccadillo Pictures’ Sofa Club
• The TV Mindset
• Friday Film Club with Carol Morley
• Live Watch Party with Riz Ahmed

Fundraising and professional groups’ support

• AMPAS, $6m donation split between: The Actors Fund and Motion Picture & Television Fund
• Producers Guild of India, relief fund backed by Netflix
• Primetime Network, what to watch, practical support and stay connected resources
• EWA talks Change
• Women in Film Los Angeles, helpline and Laptop Cinema Club
• American Documentary, artist emergency fund
• German Films, Corona updates
• SAG-AFTRA, dues relief
• Art-House America Campaign, fundraiser by Criterion Collection
• Film and TV Charity, Coronavirus resources page
• #BAFTAKids at Home with @Place2Be
• Modern Films, Marquee of indie cinemas
• Screen Scotland, £1.5million Screen Bridging Bursary programme and single project development fund
• Equity £1m benevolent fund
• Into Film’s film guides for homeschooling
• Raising Films, Raising our Futures initiative
• Helping Dress Medics
• To Be Continued, crowdfunding for 33 cinemas in Berlin
• Arts Council England £20m financial support
• Creative Industries Federation - free memberships for freelancers for six months
• Pact
• UK Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund
• The Actors Fund
• Bectu
• BFI/Film and TV Charity Emergency Fund
• Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund
• DGA Foundation
• Directors UK
• Entertainment Industry Foundation
• IATSE
• MPTF
• Patreon’s What the Fund
• Relief Fund for Hollywood Support Staff
• SAG-AFTRA Covid-19 Disaster Fund
• Tribeca Film Institute Emergency Artist Support Fund
• WGA Covid-19 resources
• Women Make Movies: Resources for Artists with Lost or Reduced Wages