Funding your short course
Need help paying for your course? Check out these great resources:
Based in the UK?
ScreenSkills Bursaries
If you currently work in the UK screen industries, or can demonstrate your intention to work in them, are eligible to work in the UK and have a UK bank account, you can apply to UK body ScreenSkills to pay for one of our short courses
ScreenSkills offers cash grants to pay course fees, accommodation, care, disability access costs, equipment, software and travel.
Check out if you are eligible:
https://www.screenskills.com/your-career/screenskills-bursaries/bursary-guidelines
Apply Here:
The Film and TV Charity
The Sir Horace Ové Grant (for Black and Global Majority people) offer Grants of up to £500 are available to cover anything from childcare or travel to support your professional development
This grant is specifically for Black and Global Majority people working behind the scenes in film, TV, and cinema
Find more information on the grant here https://filmtvcharity.org.uk/get-support/finance/sir-horace-ove-grants/
Stop-Gap Grant
If you work behind the scenes in film or TV in the UK, you can apply for up to £500 for any immediate financial needs. You must Have at least 40 days of paid work in the last 18 months OR have worked for at least two years in the film and TV industry, seeking support to return to work after a career break.
https://filmtvcharity.org.uk/get-support/finance/stop-gap-grant
Based outside the UK?
If you live and work but want to study with us, there are lots of local bursaries you can potentially apply for to help with fees.
1. Identify your home country’s specific national film fund, TV professional body, arts council, or cultural ministry.
2. Many of our courses focus on business, entrepreneurship or making a successful production in the screen or sports media sector. This makes you eligible for general business training funding. Look in your local region or at the national bodies that promote international trade.
3. Thoroughly review the “Professional Development,” “Training,” “Mobility,” or “Internationalisation” sections of that body’s website.
4. Look for calls for applications that are open to individuals (not just companies), cover professional training (not just degrees), and allow for study/training abroad (specifically, not excluding the UK).
5. Be prepared to make a strong case for how the UK short course will significantly benefit their career and contribute to their home country’s film/TV industry or help you grow a successful business.
Ireland (via Screen Ireland)
The Screen Ireland Bursary Award Scheme (Skills Development) offers Awards up to €5,000 for international skills development opportunities or substantial online programmes. You’ll need to prove that our course provides a benefit to the Irish Film, Television, Animation, and related sectors.
For industry professionals working in the Irish film, television, animation, and related sectors with a minimum of three years’ full-time experience (one year for screenwriting with specific development funding).
Bursary Criteria & Conditions – Screen Ireland
https://www.screenireland.ie/funding/distribution-loans/bursaries/criteria-conditions
Germany
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) heavily invest in talent and industry development.
https://www.medienboard.de/en/funding/internationale-programmes/villa-aurora-stipendium
Italy
Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo (DGCA)
Poland (via Polish Film Institute – PISF)
Polish Film Institute official site (check for current calls)
Spain
Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA)
Check your local regional film commissions and cultural departments (e.g., Film Madrid, Catalunya Film Commission).