Film - Lottery rounds now open for applications!

Please note, the final deadline for accepting the following Lottery funding applications this financial year is Monday 15th March.

The Lottery rounds will re-open after 1st April 2010 with a slightly modified application process. Northwest Vision and Media will no longer accept applications on a rolling basis. Instead there will be four annual deadlines when we invite submissions from regional filmmakers:

Wednesday 2nd June 2010
Wednesday 1st September 2010
Wednesday 1st December 2010
Wednesday 3rd March 2011

Applicants will be notified as to whether they have been successful within three weeks of the deadline.

All submissions will be sent off to be assessed externally, therefore we will not accept late applications or process applications early. Please make a note of these dates and keep them in mind when considering finance for various projects. This is particularly relevant to film festival applications since we will do not offer retrospective funding.

If you have any queries on when or how to submit an Lottery funding application, please contact Jenny Hughes on jennyh@visionandmedia.co.uk

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Vision and Media’s Film Department supports producers, writers and directors. As the wealth generators of tomorrow, it’s their ideas and projects which have the potential to attract significant inward investment into the region. This, in turn, promotes the region and creates jobs.

It’s our aim to help the region’s creative talent to reach a stage in their careers where they can successfully attract recognition, commissions and funding from major independents, financiers and distributors.

To help us in our work, we are able to access funding from our RIFE Lottery Funding from the UK Film Council.

Please click on one of the links below for more information about the range of support we offer our film talent, across short and feature filmmaking:

- Development Funding

- Seed Funding – for Feature Films

- Festival Bursaries

- Freelancer Fund

- Short Film Fund

For further information, please contact Jenny Hughes email jennyh@visionandmedia.co.uk and/or telephone 0844 3950385.