The Screenrights Cultural Fund makes a difference by supporting people with exciting and innovative new initiatives that foster the creation and appreciation of screen content in Australia and New Zealand. The 2025 total funding pool is $300,000.
Applications for the 2025 grant round will open on 14 February. Sign up to our e-newsletter to keep updated.
- Apply for up to $50,000
- Previously funded initiatives
- 2025 applications will open on 14 February
- 2024 successful recipients announced on 28 August
- culturalfund@screenrights.org
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FOCUS 2025 – TBA
The Screenrights Cultural Fund supports initiatives that offer broad benefit to the screen industry in Australia and New Zealand. Individuals and organisations can apply for grants of up to $50K per project, with a total funding pool of $300,000 available in 2025. The 2025 focus will be announced when the funding round opens on 14 February. Successful recipients in the 2024 grant round were announced on 28 August.
To get a good idea of the types of initiatives we fund, you can read about our previous grant recipients here. Sign up to our e-newsletter to stay in the loop with Cultural Fund announcements. Now in its eighth year, the Screenrights Cultural Fund has awarded over $1.5 million to screen industry initiatives since it was established in 2018.
Application Support
In 2022, a free Application Support process was introduced to the Cultural Fund grant round to assist less experienced grant writers with their applications. We continue this process in 2025, and support requests will open when this year’s grant round is launched.
The Screenrights Cultural Fund is not a development or production fund. For development or production funding opportunities, we suggest checking out your regional screen or arts funding bodies.