Open Call for Creatives & Artists [June 2025]
Open call: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Eligibility: Visual Artists Worldwide
Fee: free
Prize: Up to $50,000
Apply: https://pkf.org/apply/
Deadline: Rolling
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation invites visual artists all over the world to apply for the all year rolling grant. The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. There are no deadlines. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time. Professional exhibition history will be taken into consideration. Artists must be actively exhibiting their current work in professional artistic venues, such as gallery and museum spaces.
The Foundation welcomes, throughout the year, applications from visual artists who are painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers. The Foundation does not accept applications from commercial artists, graphic artists, video artists, performance artists, filmmakers, crafts-makers, or any artist whose work primarily falls into these categories.
For enquiries
Send email to grants@pkf.org
Note: Terms & conditions apply and must be followed as stated.
Open call: Lagos Fringe Open Call 2025
Eligibility: Filmmakers in Nigeria
Fee: free
Prize: Screening and International Recognition
Apply: https://lagosfringe.com/film-screening-submission/
Deadline: 13 June 2025
The Lagos Fringe invites emerging and established filmmakers in Nigeria to submit their short films with bold stories and unique perspectives and get a chance to showcase your work, network and connect with a diverse audience.
For enquiries
Send email to info@lagosfringe.com
Note: Terms & conditions apply and must be followed as stated.
Open call: Makifaa Lens on Africa Challenge 2025
Eligibility: Photographers in Africa
Fee: free
Prize: Up to $2,000
Apply: https://makifaa.com/contests/lens-on-africa
Deadline: 20 June 2025
Makifaa Lens on Africa Challenge 2025 invites photographers in Africa to submit their best high‑quality photos that capture the modern, diverse and dynamic spirit of Africa from street scenes and portraits to cultural traditions and innovation.
Note: Terms & conditions apply and must be followed as stated.
Open call: Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism Africa Fund
Eligibility: African Journalists
Fee: free
Prize: Up to $10,000
Apply: https://www.rcdij.org/the-rcdij-africa-fund/
Deadline: Rolling
The RCDIJ Africa Fund welcomes proposals from individual journalists from African countries who are into investigative journalism. The RCDIJ Africa Fund accepts applications on a rolling basis. The RCDIJ Africa Fund targets individual journalists across Africa. The categories of journalists include as follows: Employed/Freelance, Online, Print, Broadcast, Photo, Cartoon, Multimedia. In addition to monetary support, successful applicants will have their completed works published on the centre’s sister platform, Ripples Nigeria, with full editorial support throughout the process.
Rewards
For enquiries
Send email to info@rcdij.org.
Note: Terms & conditions apply and must be followed as stated.
Open call: Slick Films Fund 2025
Eligibility: Filmmakers worldwide
Fee: free
Prize: £10,000 + Mentorship + Production Support + More
Deadline: 24 June 2025
The Slick Films Fund, in association with Bolton Film Festival, is offering an incredible opportunity for emerging filmmakers worldwide to bring their short film projects to life. Recognised for their storytelling excellence and an Oscar® win for “The Silent Child”, Slick Films is committed to championing new voices in cinema through this fund.
Two funding opportunities are available:
Main Fund: £10,000 production funding, mentorship from Oscar®-winning filmmakers, production support (banking, legal, insurance, accounting), festival strategy, and extensive post-production services including color grading and VFX consultation.
First-Time Filmmaker Fund: £3,000 production funding, script development with Oscar®-winning filmmakers, production support, and post-production services.
Winners will also receive consultations with top industry professionals and the opportunity to pitch their projects at Bolton Film Festival on 03/10/2025.
For enquiries
Send email to fund@slickfilms.co.uk
Note: Terms & conditions apply and must be followed as stated.
Open call: The Female Voices Short Film Fund 2025
Eligibility: Female Filmmakers worldwide
Fee: free
Prize: $10,000
Deadline: 30 June 2025
First Flight invites filmmakers worldwide who identify as females for the Female Voices Short Film Fund. It is a short film fund focused on supporting female* filmmakers and raising awareness of under-representation and discrepancies in pay and positions between men and women in the film industry.
With a financial grant of $10,000 and a direct pitching opportunity to a development deal with one of the UK’s largest Independent finance and production companies, Goldfinch.
2025 submissions can also win an extra $1700 Mentorship with Female Film Club and £1300 Festival Strategy Campaign with Festival Formula.
They will take one filmmaker to create a concept film for either their first or second feature film. The fund will act as a development platform to support the filmmaker and their short as a proof of concept for a feature film of up to a £1M budget.
For enquiries
Send email to hello@first-flights.com
Note: Terms & conditions apply and must be followed as stated.
Open call: British Council International Audio Drama Competition 2026
Eligibility: Writers 18 and above worldwide
Fee: free
Prize: £2,500, trip to the UK, Drama recorded by BBC
Deadline: 4 June 2025
Writers from around the world are invited to submit their scripts for the 29th International Audio Drama Competition (previously the International Playwriting Competition) which is now open for entries. The global competition, hosted by BBC World Service and the British Council, offers the unique opportunity for writers from outside the UK to use the medium of audio drama to tell stories for an international audience. Entrants should write an audio drama script of approximately forty to fifty minutes’ length on any subject of their choice.
For enquiries
Send email to dramacompetition@bbc.co.uk
Note: Terms & conditions apply and must be followed as stated.
Open call: Chalewote Street Art Festival Call for Artists 2025
Eligibility: African Artists
Fee: free
Prize: Exposure + Collaboration
Deadline: 4 June 2025
The Chalewote Street Art Festival call is open to all artistes who have been professionally active for at least 2 years and with a visible commitment to their professional artistic practice and media. They are accepting works that document and highlight African and Afro-diasporic history and cultural lineages with roots in Congo. They can send in their proposals on the theme “The Orbs Beneath the Nile Lead to Kongo”. Proposals must be site-specific. International Artists selected to participate are encouraged to apply for funding from their home countries or other sources to support their travel, living costs and, where possible, funding for the cost of production for their work. Accommodation will be provided to some selected international participants for the period between August 18-25, 2025.
For enquiries
Send email to chalewote@accradotaltradio.com
Note: Terms & conditions apply and must be followed as stated.
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