Artist Opportunities
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This page contains information about current open call opportunities for artists working in the moving image - including the latest festival submissions, exhibition opportunities, residencies and production funds.
To submit artist opportunities for our listings, please email flamin@filmlondon.org.uk
Rencontres Internationales Paris 2026
Deadline: 12 March 2026
European Media Art Platform (EMAP) Residencies
Deadline: 13 March 2026
Artist Film Open Call, Deep Focus, London
Deadline: 15 March 2026
KONTEKST Film Festival, London
Deadline: 15 March 2026
Artist Accelerator 2026, Rosetta Arts, London
Deadline: 15 March 2026
Gasworks: Residency for UK-based artists at URRA, Argentina
Deadline: 16 March 2026
Future Ruins and New Worlds - Postgraduate-Level Course for Artists, The Old Waterworks (for artists based in Essex/East of England)
Deadline: 16 March 2026
EXiS 2026, Seoul, South Korea
Deadline: 20 March 2026
Artist Residency 2026, Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, Latvia
Deadline: 23 March 2026
New Contemporaries, UK
Regular deadline: 30 March 2026
Braziers International Film Festival, Oxfordshire
Regular deadline: 30 March 2026
Jerwood Artist in Residence at the Soane Museum, London
Deadline: 31 March 2026
London Short Film Festival
Early deadline: 31 March 2026
Serlachius Residency, Mänttä, Finland
Deadline: 31 March 2026
Massee Arts Grant, British Mycological Society
Deadline: 31 March 2026
Long Story Short, Annual Short Film Open Call, Kickstarter
Deadline: 31 March 2026
The Elephant Trust
Deadline: 12 April 2026
Schloss Wiepersdorf Fellowship 2027, Brandenburg, Germany
Deadline: 15 April 2026
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA)
Deadline: 23 April 2026
Emerging Visual Artist Residency 2026, Cove Park, Scotland
Deadline: 24 April 2026
COAL Prize 2026: The Night
Deadline: 28 April 2026
Aesthetica Film Fesitval, York, UK
Deadline: 31 May 2026
Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A), Residencies 2025-2026
Deadline: Rolling
ScreenSkills Bursaries
Deadline: Rolling
Artquest One to One Advice Sessions
Deadline: Rolling
Research and Development Fund, BFI Doc Society
Deadline: Rolling
Embodied Documentary Filmmaking Workshops, IMPRINT Documentary Collective, Online
Deadline: Rolling
Online residency: Working class creatives, The White Pube
Deadline: Rolling
The Eaton Fund: Small grants for UK artists
Deadline: Rolling
Monthly Experimental Film and Video Screenings, Periphery, Chicago
Deadline: Rolling
Black Artists Grants, Creative Debuts
Deadline: Rolling
Cardiff Animation Nights
Deadline: Rolling
GOOD WICKEDRY online screenings, T A P E Collective
Deadline: Rolling
AiR Drop Residencies, Satellite Films
Deadline: Rolling
ACE National Lottery Project Grants, Arts Council England
Deadline: Rolling
Straight 8, super 8 filmmaking competition
Deadline: Rolling
Artquest Exchange
Deadline: Rolling
Short Film Travel Grant Fund, British Council
Deadline: Rolling
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Fund
Deadline: Rolling
Call for work, OVNI - The Observatory Archives, Barcelona
Deadline: Rolling
Journal of Embodied Research - Video Proposals
Deadline: Rolling
LUX one-to-one advice sessions
Announced in the LUX Newswire
Moving Image Salon monthly artist's discussion group, London
Check website for event details
Pavilion Artists' Moving Image Network monthly meetings, Leeds
Check website for event details