Post-Production Grant Program Announced

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The Ukrainian Film Academy, in cooperation with Netflix, is launching a new round of the Post-Production Grant Program to support Ukrainian filmmakers both in Ukraine and worldwide who have been affected or displaced by the war, enabling them to continue and develop their work.

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The Program offers:

• Twenty (20) 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.

Eligible projects include:

• Original Ukrainian feature-length fiction films (50 minutes or longer)

• Original Ukrainian feature-length documentary films (50 minutes or longer)

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

Please read the Grant Program Regulations carefully before applying.

Key program deadlines:
   •    From 11:00 AM on 6 May 2025 until 11:59 PM on 6 June 2025 — application period
   •    2 September 2025 — announcement of selected Grant recipients
   •    By 30 May 2026 — mid-year report by Grant recipients
   •    November 2026 — final deadline for post-production work completion and report

Five independent international experts will evaluate applications: 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). More information about the experts is available at the link.

These initiatives, supported by Netflix’s Fund for Creative Equity, offer 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.