Script development
Script quality can make or break a film. Our Development Fund provides £4 million a year to support development of high quality, commercially viable screenplays.
Funded screenplays include Brideshead Revisited and How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
The Development Fund is a dedicated industry funding programme for producers, production companies and filmmakers with a demonstrable track record of success in feature filmmaking or in production in the audio-visual arena.
There are two funds one for first time feature filmmakers and one for established filmmakers:
- First Feature Film Development Programme aims to identify and support emerging filmmakers: screenwriters, writer/directors and writer, director, producer teams who have not made a feature film or who have not yet had a feature film released theatrically or broadcast on UK television.
- Feature Film Development Programme is a dedicated industry funding programme for producers, production companies and filmmakers, with a demonstrable track record of success in feature filmmaking or in production in the audio-visual arena, looking for funding and financing partnerships.
