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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
It is difficult to compare projects fairly when they are so different from each other. In general, tried to evaluate the effectiveness of the concept and then checked if the execution of the script delivered on its premise. We also favoured the scripts featuring a full narrative arc – which is difficult to achieve in …