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
The Elephant Trust, UK
Deadline: 19 October 2025
Radical Film School, London
Deadline: 20 October 2025
Annual Open, Southwark Park Galleries, London
Deadline: 22 October 2025
Graduate Studio Award, Lewisham Arthouse, London
Deadline: 22 October 2025
Residency 2026, schrit_tmacher festival X Greylight Projects, Heerlen, Netherlands
Deadline: 26 October 2025
Artist Archive Film Night, Siobhan Davies Studio, London
Deadline: 27 October 2025
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
Deadline: 31 October 2025
A4 Artist Residency, Chengdu, China
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
Early deadline: 31 October 2025
CPH:DOX 2026, Copenhagen, Denmark
Deadline: 1 November 2025
Arctic Canvas Residency, Snæfellsnes, Iceland
Deadline: 1 November 2025
Between Bridges Residency, Berlin, Germany
Deadline: 2 November 2025
CPH:FORUM 2026, Copenhagen, Denmark
Deadline: 5 November 2025
East Doc Platform (EDP), Prague, Czech Republic
Deadline: 14 November 2025
Fellowships 2026 - 2028, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Deadline: 14 November 2025
Open City Documentary Festival, London
Deadline: 28 November 2025
Residency 2027, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands
Deadline: 4 December 2025
2025 Magic Lantern Society Awards
Deadline: 7 December 2025
European Media Art Festival, Germany
Deadline: 22 December 2025
Odyssey: Exhibition open call, Hastings Contemporary & Sussex Contemporary
Deadline: 18 January 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