Deadline: 29 April 2024
The National Theatre of Scotland is delighted to announce a new scripted short film commission opportunity for artists of South Asian origin based in Scotland, including those with mixed heritage.
Funding Information
- This short film commission has a budget of £12,000, which must include fees for all artists, cast, and crew.
Genre & Format
- This commission encourages artists to look for stories in their communities, explore personal experiences, shared moments, or imagined worlds.
- They welcome scripted short film ideas including animation or live action. The project must be narrative-driven – the film’s central emphasis should be on communicating a story. They welcome all the genres, including drama, comedy, horror, sci-fi, fantasy etc.
- Think about who will be watching your film and unleash your creativity. What themes, characters and stories would attract a South Asian audience as well as appeal to a wider audience in Scotland?
- The completed commissioned film should be a minimum of 3 and maximum of 10, minutes long.
Eligible Countries
- India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan.
Eligibility Criteria
- Lead artists (writer/writer-director) and the core creative team must be South Asian origin artists including those with mixed heritage.
- Based and working in Scotland, have the legal right to work in the UK, are 18 + years old and are not in full-time in education.
- Artists from any art form who want to make a short film.
- Open to early career artists who have had at least one piece of work produced (live performance, music video, self-funded short film, etc). However, artists with a feature film or TV series writer/director credit are not eligible.
- All ideas and material must be original and not infringe on the copyright of any other person. However, adaptations will be eligible if you have been granted all required permissions in full.
- Projects that already have some forms of other funding are not eligible.
- They welcome applications from individual artists, collectives, joint applications from artists, theatre companies, arts organisations, and freelance producers. Applications from creatives who haven’t worked with the National Theatre of Scotland before are very much encouraged.
For more information, visit National Theatre of Scotland.
