BFI Doc Society
Features Fund
The BFI Doc Society Fund will open in summer 2021
The BFI Doc Society Fund aims to develop storytellers from all parts of the UK, backing feature projects with bold cultural and social ambitions.
The Fund will encourage filmmakers to take risks on form and content, where the more commercial sector cannot. We heart the cinema, but we are also platform agnostic and open to projects that reach audiences in new ways.
We can support:
- Any stage - Development, Production, Completion
- First time filmmakers
- Hybrid forms
- Multi-platform
What we don’t fund:
- Filmed productions such as a theatre show, filmed sporting or music event
- Artist installation work
- Journalism
- Films intended primarily for broadcast television
To bear in mind:
- All films have to pass the cultural test to be eligible
The BFI Doc Society Fund is closed
Fund Guidelines (PDF)
Application Form preview (PDF)
Fund FAQs (PDF)
Cultural Test
BFI Diversity Standards Form - required for all applications (PDF)
Got some questions?
Watch our BFI Doc Society Fund presentation here
I've got a question
Please check out our comprehensive guidelines which should help with any burning questions. If you can’t find what you need, please contact our BFI Doc Society Production Manager Hannah Bush Bailey at hello@docsociety.org
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Awards Directory
If you would like to find out which documentary projects are recipients of awards through the BFI Doc Society Fund, please find our directory here.