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.
Black Artists Grants, Creative Debuts
Deadline: Rolling
Free online course: Colour Grading with Da Vinci Resolve, Screen Skills
Deadline: 18 January 2021
Adaptations funding awards, Artquest, London
Deadline: 18 January 2021
The Exchange, Eastside Projects / g39 / Spike Island / Turf Projects / CAMP / The Newbridge Project
Deadline: 20 January 2021
Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, South Korea
Deadline 21 January 2021
Elephant Trust Grants
Deadline: 25 January 2021
Connections Through Culture Grants: UK and Taiwan, British Council in Taiwan
Deadline: 26 January 2021
International documentary development workshop, dok.incubator
Deadline: 27 January 2021
Videoex International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zurich
Deadline: 29 January 2021
Netflix Documentary Talent Fund
Deadline: 31 January 2021
Turner Contemporary Open 2021, Margate (artists based/studied in Kent & Medway only)
Deadline: 31 January 2021
Graduate programme 2021, Hospitalfield (Scotland-based artists who graduated in 2019 or 2020 only)
Deadline: 31 January 2021
Flatpack Festival 2021, Birmingham
Deadline: 31 January 2021
'I, Matter' open call exhibition, Babylon Arts, Cambridgeshire
Deadline: 31 January 2021
Yango Biennial, Democratic Republic of Congo
Deadline: 31 January 2021
Open call: Collectivity & Community film screening, not/nowhere / Somerset House Studios
Deadline: 1 February 2021
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
Deadline: 1 February 2021
The Alex Adriaansens Residency, V2 Lab for Unstable Media, Rotterdam
Deadline: 1 February 201
CURRENTS New Media 2021
Deadline: 1 February 2021
Tracked and Traced exhibition, Science Gallery Detroit, USA
Deadline: 5 February 2021
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021
Deadline: 8 February / 1 March 2021
LB x a-n Artist Bursaries, Liverpool Biennial / a-n (a-n members only)
Deadline: 12 February 2021
Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2021
Deadline: 12 February / 26 March / 16 April 2021
Dover Art Prize 2021, County Durham Community Foundation
Deadline: 14 February 2021
Chang/ce animation commissions, Bhagri Foundations (artists living in Asia and its diaspora only)
Deadline: 15 February 2021
Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England
Deadline: 18 February 2021
Digital Crit Club, Eastside Projects, online (EOP members only)
Deadline: 23 February 2021
Night SchoolTerm VII, East Bristol Contemporary
Deadline: 23 February 2021
New Contemporaries 2021 (artists who graduated up to 2 years ago only)
Deadline: 1 March 2021
Call for Proposals: Food and the Politics of Food, PhotoIreland Festival
Deadline: 1 March 2021
'The Fields of Algorithms' The Ones Minutes selected by Larry Achiampong & David Blandy
Deadline: 15 March 2021
Open City Documentary Festival 2021, London
Deadline: 23 April / 10 May 2021
Development Support for Artists based in the UK, Cement Fields
Deadline: Rolling until February 2021
Outpost online studio visits, Artquest
Deadline: Rolling
Open Call: collaborate on arts-science projects, Imperial College London
Deadline: Rolling
Short Film Travel Grant Fund, British Council
Deadline: Rolling
Culture Seeds grants, Greater London Authority
Deadline: Rolling
ACE National Lottery Project Grants, Arts Council England
Deadline: Rolling
Small Grants Scheme: In the Making, Greater London Authority
Deadline: Rolling
Connections through Culture – China and the UK Grants, British Council
Deadline: Rolling
12-month artist residencies, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
Deadline: Rolling
Artist's Access to Art Colleges
Deadline: Rolling
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Fund
Deadline: Rolling
Think Tank Residencies, Pacitti Company, Ipswich
Deadline: Rolling
EMPAC Residencies, EMPAC, New York
Deadline: Rolling
Crowdfunder and Arts Council England additional funding
Deadline: Rolling
Call for work, OVNI - The Observatory Archives, Barcelona
Deadline: Rolling
Open call for exhibition proposals, Broadway Gallery, Nottingham
Deadline: Rolling
Journal of Embodied Research - Video Proposals
Deadline: Rolling
Quarantzine online publication of work made in self-isolation, GAADA
Deadline: Rolling
Call for art and writing proposals, HOAX Publication, online
Deadline: Rolling
LUX one-to-one advice sessions
Announced weekly on LUX Twitter page
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