Moving Image Resource

equipment, building networks and generally making your practice more sustainable - could be the starting point for planning a more ambitious film project - which you could then go onto apply for a Project Grant . It is important to remember that Project Grants are funding to create art experiences for the public, not really funding to just produce art. It is possible to get funding for moving image projects this way but you need to have a really solid exhibition plan, i.e. commitments to show [...] There are three production funds supported by the BFI, their flagship Production Fund (for projects with budgets over £250,000), their short film fund for more emergent filmmakers BFI Network and their documentary support managed by the Doc Society. . I have often been told that these funds notionally will support artists making films, the reality is that they need to be projects oriented towards the cinema rather than the gallery and the process is very different to art funding. You usually [...] This is a brief resource page for artists’ working with the moving image in England. It is a subjective guide which mostly focuses on moving image specific resources, although the reality is that artists’ moving image is now ubiquitous across the art world and exists wherever contemporary visual arts is shown and supported. Benjamin Cook FUNDING