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

London International Animation Festival, UK
Deadline: 20 July 2026

Open Call 2026, Modern Art Oxford, UK
Deadline: 26 July 2026

Rest Film Festival, Online
Deadline: 27 July 2026

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA
Early deadline: 31 July 2026

ANIDOX:LAB Residency, Viborg, Denmark
Deadline: 31 July 2026

Archivio Aperto Festival, Bologna, Italy
Deadline: 31 July 2026

2026 Grant Programme, Hugo Burge Foundation, UK
Deadline: 31 July 2026

Sarabande Foundation Studio Residencies, London, UK
Deadline: 1 August 2026

AddisVideo Art Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Deadline: 1 August 2026

Moving Image Artist Open Call: Daisy Chain, Corridor, South East England
Deadline: 3 August 2026

Fondazione Prada Film Fund (for projects In Production), International
Deadline: 6 August 2026

Ignore All Previous Instructions, Web Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Online
Deadline: 7 August 2026

Videobardo International Videopoetry Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Deadline: 10 August 2026

Flatworld and Friends, London, UK
Deadline: 10 August 2026

Tramway Film Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Deadline: 15 August 2026

MicroActs, London, UK
Deadline: 16 August 2026

School of the Damned, UK
Deadline: 23 August 2026

Liu Shiming Artist Grant 2026
Deadline: 31 August 2026

New York City Independent Film Festival, USA
Deadline: 31 August 2026

AddisVideo Art Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Deadline: 31 August 2026

International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Deadline: 31 August 2026

CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
Deadline: 1 September 2026

Fondazione Prada Film Fund (for projects In Development or Post-Production), International
Deadline: 10 September 2026

Liminal Archive Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Deadline: 15 September 2026

FVU:LAB, Research and Development Residency
Deadline: Rolling

Forge artists' moving image screenings, Margate
Deadline: Rolling

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