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