We are excited to announce the longlisted projects of the 2026 edition of our Short Film Fund! If you didn’t make it on the list, please do not take this as a negative judgement on your project. We had to set the bar high. Screenplays Rough Cuts
The 2024 edition of the Short Film Fund was a big success regarding writing quality. All of our finalists (and honourable mentions) demonstrated outstanding storytelling skills, which we would have loved to support. Nevertheless, we had to sit down with our jurors and make a final decision on the winner would be… Our wonderful finalists … Read more
Thank you for participating in the Short Film Fund. Reducing the longlist to just six finalist projects has been challenging. We tried to select those projects that managed to deliver a well-developed story that felt unique. But there were definitely more than six projects that we would have loved to promote to the finalist stage. … Read more
Thank you all for participating in the Short Film Fund. This year we received many solid projects, so the longlist is fairly long! THE LONGLIST A Lake of Stars, written by Nick Green A Significant Moment, written by Imogen Harrison About Grief and Plants, written by Noam Gottlieb-Zeiss Almost Heaven, written by Tanya Shamil Bin … Read more
Thank you to everyone who participated in our script call for producer Rachel Stander. Rachel went through the treatments of the projects we longlisted last week, and selected the five screenplays she’s going to read in full: After reading the scripts, Rachel will either meet with the writers to discuss further or provide written notes … Read more
Thank you to everyone who participated in our script call for producer Rachel Stander. Rachel was looking for feature film dramedies with a soft sci-fi or magic realism element, something along the lines of “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind“, “Her“, “Timer“, “The Lobster“, “The Big Door Prize“. We received over 100 submissions for this … Read more
We recently ran a team-up call to facilitate connections between writers and eligible producers and directors who would like to apply to the upcoming Uncertain Kingdom Short Film Fund 2023. We received 85 screenplays from writers and forwarded 56 of them to the participating producers and directors, dividing the projects into two lists: Here is … Read more
We are thrilled to announce the shortlisted projects for the script call we organised for Qalbi Productions, who were looking for short scripts of up to 10 pages exploring LGBTQIA+ themes. Finalists: These screenplays have been forwarded to Qalbi Productions. The writers will either be invited for a meeting to discuss the possibility of getting … Read more
We often provide feedback on screenplays that are not formatted professionally. This is a big red flag for anyone reading scripts because screenplay formatting has very specific rules, and it is not just about how it reads on the page, but it has significant implications for visual storytelling. If you submit a wrongly formatted screenplay … Read more
All our finalists submitted amazing projects. The quality was very high and we would have 100% backed them all. But we had to pick a winner and the jury agreed two films somehow managed to stand out. The first one – which we picked as a winner – stands out because it has the most … Read more