Supporting UK screen content businesses across film, TV, animation and interactive narrative video games to enhance their international activities.
Applications open at midday on 3 April 2025 and close at midday on 19 June 2025.
Eligible companies can apply for funding using one of two tracks:
- Film Transformation Track: funding for internationally focused transformational business strategies related to independent UK film. Strategies must start in early 2026 and span three to five years
- General Track: funding for business strategies to create, acquire and/or exploit intellectual property (IP), covering all eligible screen sectors, for increased international revenue, audiences and profile. Strategies must start in early 2026 and span three years
Eligible companies can apply for funding between £50,000 and £200,000 in total over the three-year funding period, with support in the form of non-repayable grants (applicable to both the Film Transformation Track and the General Track).
The International Business Development strand is open to independent UK screen companies with a track record in creating, acquiring, and/or exploiting IP in at least one of the following categories:
- feature films – fiction, documentary, animation – for theatrical and/or online release
- programmes – fiction, documentary, animation – for broadcast television, video-on-demand services or other forms of online release
- interactive narrative video games for commercial digital platforms, generating revenue from the public consumer market