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.

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Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Mexico City
Deadline: 17 July 2025

Metal Culture: The Unlonely City - Structural Change Artist
Deadline: 18 July 2025

Stonewater’s Blunden Prize 2025
Deadline: 18 July 2025

WIP Lab Residency, Cyprus
Deadline: 18 July 2025

Hypha Curates
Deadline: 20 July 2025

Undershed: Call for Immersive Artwork, The Watershed, Bristol
Deadline: 20 July 2025

Dwell Here: One Year Residency Open Call / 2026, IMMA, Dublin
Deadline: 22 July 2025

Exhibition Open Call, Warbling, London
Deadline: 25 July 2025

Shape Arts: Apply to the 2025 Shape Open exhibition
Deadline: 27 July 2025

Axis Fellowship 2025
Deadline: 28 July 2025

New Contemporaries Studio Residency at FormaHQ, London
Deadline: 28 July 2025

Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan
Early deadline: 31 July 2025

London International Animation Festival
Deadline: 31 July 2025

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
Early deadline: 1 August 2025

The Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School at Rome: Call For Applications
Deadline: 10 August 2025

OPEN CALL / Going Away.tv: Locked In
Deadline: 11 August 2025

Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
Deadline: 15 August 2025

Altered Images Festival, London
Deadline: 16 August 2025

ALTERLIFE: Rupert x Sonic Acts Residency 2026-27, Vilnius / Amsterdam
Deadline: 17 August 2025

MicroActs Artist Film Screenings, London
Deadline: 18 August 2025

The Graduate Art Show
Deadline: 20 August 2025

CVAN East Midlands’s Bigger Bursary
Deadline: 20 August 2025

Inspiration Forum Lab 2025/26, Ji.hlava IDFF, Kersnikova Institute & Sensorium
Deadline: 25 August 2025

Artist in Residence Program 2026, Kyoto Art Center, Japan
Deadline: 31 August 2025

Artist of the Future Prize, Saatchi Gallery, London
Deadline: 31 August 2025

2025 Ingram Prize
Deadline: 15 September 2025

Immersive Arts Funding
Deadline: 29 September 2025

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