World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP) Global Career Accelerator Program 2025 (Fully Funded to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil )

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Application Deadline: September 12, 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 WCSFP Global Career Accelerator Program. The Global Career Accelerator  is a program for up-and-coming factual filmmakers, digital producers, or anybody prepared to take their profession to the subsequent degree and convey their science, historical past, or pure historical past work to audiences around the globe. The newly renamed programme builds on the success of the Emerging Producer Program, and is open to all fields of experience together with factual, digital, social media, gaming, and multimedia.

The objective of this system is to welcome and assist numerous rising expertise and encourage a brand new technology of Congress members. Producers and content material creators working in all science, historical past, wildlife and non-fiction media are inspired to apply together with these working in digital media, social media and gaming.

The 2025 Global Career Accelerator recipients can be provided a variety of assist together with accreditation and networking Opportunities for Congress ’25, introduced by the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP). The program additionally contains legacy reductions on accreditation for the 2026 and 2027 WCSFP, additional permitting new members of the group to return yearly. 

Eligibility

• Applicants should be first time WCSFP attendees

For Tier 1 bursaries, two priorities have been recognized

• Applicants from outdoors the WCSFP’s conventional attendance base (i.e. outdoors of Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, UK, USA)
  AND/OR
• Applicants who haven’t beforehand attended a significant worldwide market occasion
• The Global Career Accelerator Program welcomes underrepresented voices and encourages purposes from throughout all cultural and geographic backgrounds
• Applicants should display expertise working within the science, historical past, wildlife or factual genres in a single of the next roles: government producer, producer, affiliate producer, assistant producer, or digital, gaming or social media content material creator
• Applicants ought to give you the chance to display that their careers are at a stage to profit from attendance at a big worldwide occasion

Benefits

Qualified candidates can be chosen to obtain one of the next tiers of assist for Congress ’25.

Full Bursary (Tier 1)

• Full registration for Congress ’25
• Travel and 4 nights lodging
• Mentorship from a Congress veteran
• Opportunities for one-on-one conferences with determination makers
• Welcome session with main producers to assist facilitate the best WCSFP expertise
• Tailored help and recommendation to efficiently navigate WCSFP
• Discounted accreditation to attend Congress 2026 and 2027

Priority for the Full Bursary can be given to producers from markets which are underrepresented at WCSFP.

Partial Bursary (Tier 2)

• Full registration for Congress ’25
• Mentorship from a Congress veteran
• Welcome session with main producers to assist facilitate the best WCSFP expertise
• Tailored help and recommendation to efficiently navigate WCSFP
• Discounted accreditation to attend Congress 2026 and 2027

Application Requirements

Applicants can be required to present the next info of their application:

• A brief bio
• A present CV
• A video or audio work pattern (should be in English or subtitled in English)
• A letter of assist from an business skilled or somebody in a senior media-related place who can assess the applicant’s {qualifications} to apply for this bursary
• An application assertion which supplies extra info on the applicant equivalent to: The applicant’s involvement in science, historical past or non-fiction media; the applicant’s most up-to-date or present initiatives; and the applicant’s targets for attending Congress

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the WCSFP Global Career Accelerator Program