British Council Travel Grant Fund 2026 for Filmmakers & XR Creatives – YOA

Deadline: Rolling Basis

Applications are invited for the British Council Travel Grant Fund 2026. This is a Travel Grant Fund providing grants to filmmakers and XR creatives to assist journey to chose worldwide festivals and showcase occasions, labs, and co-manufacturing boards.

Designed for filmmakers and XR creatives, the fund lets you signify your work overseas, develop new contacts and networks, and attain new audiences. It is especially aimed toward growing the publicity of latest and rising UK movies, XR tasks and expertise on the worldwide stage.

The Travel Grant Fund is supported by BFI National Lottery funding in partnership with BFI NETWORK and the BFI International Fund.

The fund is split into 5 strands, accessed by way of two easy application processes:

Festivals and Showcases

• Short Film Festival Grants: for new/rising writers or administrators, and for producers of any expertise degree, to attend eligible festivals to assist a brief movie screening
• Feature Film Festival Grants: for producers, to attend eligible festivals to assist a function movie screening
• Interactive/immersive/XR Grants: for XR creatives to attend eligible pageant/showcase occasions with an interactive/immersive/XR venture

Labs and Co-Pro Forums

• Lab Grants: for producers, writers, or administrators engaged on new function tasks to attend eligible inventive growth labs
• Co-Production Forum Grants: for producers with function tasks trying for finance and companions to attend eligible market/co-manufacturing boards

Grant

• Awards for Short and Feature Film Festival Grants vary from £150- £1,500* however won’t usually exceed £750.
• Awards for XR tasks are divided into two tiers: Travel solely (£150 – £1,500), and Large XR grants (£1,500 as much as £5,000) for A class showcases solely, as per the Key List.
• Awards for Lab Grants are capped at £6,000 however not often exceed £3,000. They can not assist a filmmaker or venture with a couple of lab grant in any single yr.
• Awards for Co-Production Forum Grants are capped at £2,000. Each movie or venture can obtain a most of two grants.

Eligibility

Festivals and Showcases

• Applications may be made by a venture’s director, producer or author, who should be aged 18 or above and a UK resident or citizen.
• All candidates will need to have had their brief/function/XR venture chosen by one of many festivals or showcases on our Key List, and should present proof of choice in an official pageant programme (not facet-bar or visitor programme).
• All candidates will need to have submitted particulars of their movie or venture on our UK Project Database and have the ability to exhibit that the movie/venture is an official UK manufacturing or UK co-manufacturing.
• You should apply a minimum of two weeks earlier than the occasion begins.

Labs and Co-Pro Forums

You should be over 18 and a UK resident or citizen and will need to have been accepted on to an occasion on the Key List.

• Eligible candidates will need to have been chosen by one of many eligible occasions on the ‘Key List: Labs and Co-Production Forums’.
• For Co-production Forums and the place a Lab is venture-based mostly, the chosen movie or venture should be a UK manufacturing or co-manufacturing.
• For Lab attendance precedence is given to those that are but to make (or who’re creating) their first function.
• Each movie or venture can obtain a most of 1 grant per occasion.
• They can not settle for purposes for journey to a Lab or Forum that has already taken place when the application is made. You should apply a minimum of two weeks earlier than the occasion begin.

Application

There are not any deadlines – it is a rolling fund. Applications should be made upfront of journey – they usually can not fund occasions which have already taken place.

For extra info, go to British Council Travel Grant Fund.