Animation - Current Opportunities

The BFI National Lottery Audience Projects Fund is an open fund supporting distributors, exhibitors and festivals to bring independent films and immersive activity to audiences across the UK in a dynamic and original way. The activity supported by the fund will demonstrate cultural ambition and encourage audiences to take risks in the viewing choices they make. £19.7m National Lottery funding will be awarded over three years to support the exhibition and distribution of ambitious, [...] Creative UK's Screen Launchpad is a dedicated business support programme for aspiring, diverse leaders in the screen industries, delivering a series of workshops and 121 coaching sessions with proven industry leaders and mentors over three months. The programme aims to to bestow participants with greater sector and business knowledge, access to finance, increased confidence, a peer network, and a clear vision as a potential founder equipped to begin their business journey. [...] The UK Global Screen Fund is inviting applications for its 2025 International Business Development Strategy Days which will run from Tuesday 3 June to Wednesday 4 June 2025 in Belfast. This event is a two-day  set of workshops for UK-based companies which create, acquire or exploit narrative IP in the screen sector, across film and TV (fiction and factual), animation, interactive narrative video games, and distribution. Deadline to Apply Call Closed