Ukrainian Film Academy offers EU-supported grants for post-production

With EU assistance, the Ukrainian Film Academy, in cooperation with Netflix, is launching a new round of its Post-Production Grant Programme to support Ukrainian filmmakers affected or displaced by the war.

Twenty selected projects will each receive a grant of $15,000 for post-production services of original Ukrainian feature-length fiction and documentary films (50 minutes or longer) that are at the production or post-production stage at the time of application.

Only Ukrainian projects (both national and majority co-productions) are eligible, with both the director and majority producer being citizens of Ukraine.

Applications will be evaluated by five independent international experts: producer and director Helen Lõhmus (Estonia), creative producer Ioanina Pavel (Romania), producer Izabela Kiszka-Hoflik (Poland), screenwriter and producer Jani Pösö (Finland), and producer and President of the Slovak Film and Television Academy, Katarína Krnáčová (Slovakia). 

The deadline for applications is 6 June.

The initiative, supported by Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity, offers financial assistance to Ukrainian artists for the creation of new films and the post-production of existing feature projects. Over the last three years, 200 industry professionals have received stipends for creative purposes; education and mentoring have been offered to over 850 Ukrainian filmmakers, scriptwriters, producers, and others in the creative community. Script development grants distributed through the Ukrainian Film Academy strengthened a total of 73 film projects while 10 advanced films got financial assistance to complete post-production.

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