Deadline: 7-Jul-25
The Dutch Film Fund is pleased to announce its Realization Long Documentary Grant Programme to support high-quality majority Dutch long documentaries (longer than 70 minutes).
With this scheme, the Fund wants to contribute to a varied and distinctive film offering for a diverse audience. They choose original, distinctive films with guts and idiosyncrasy, films that stimulate the imagination and tell relevant stories for the Dutch audience. They strive for the most varied (selectively supported) offer possible, with room for all narrative perspectives, categories, segments and genres, made by a balanced mix of experienced and novice makers.
Funding Information
- The following contributions can be requested for the Realization of a Long Documentary:
- A realisation contribution of up to 275,000 for a documentary including the earmarked amount for audio description and subtitling to make films accessible to the visually and hearing impaired via all platforms.
- After the contribution has been granted, the board may, prior to the implementation agreement and upon request, grant an earmarked contribution for:
- Max. (based on a sales agreement)
- A maximum of 75% of the total costs for the extraordinary activities for marketing and associated promotion up to a maximum of 20,000 for the costs borne by the production company.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Long Documentary Production scheme is aimed at both novice and experienced filmmakers.
- An application for this scheme can be submitted by an independent production company (a legal entity, not a sole proprietorship or general partnership) that has been established for at least two years in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a member state of the EU, EEA or Switzerland and that produces and exploits films and other audiovisual productions on a continuous basis.
- The production company is represented by a producer who, as majority producer, has been primarily responsible for the realization of at least one long documentary with a cinema release in the Netherlands. The producer who represents the production company is not the same person as the director of the documentary.
Application Requirements
- Content-related:
- Documentary script
- Synopsis
- Changes in scenario
- Mood board (optional)
- Storyboard (optional)
- Comment producer/screenwriter/director/for animation; artwork designer
- Viewing material
- CVs and filmography of key crew members involved
- Production-business:
- Production budget
- Financing plan
- Production-business work plan (explanation of the project development phase, explanation of the production budget & financing plan)
- Vision on the release
- Financing confirmations (optional)
- Issue agreements (optional)
- Director, script and other crew agreements (optional)
- Co-production agreements (optional)
- Cast and crew members’ intentions (optional)
- Chamber of Commerce extract
For more information, visit Dutch Film Fund.