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Netflix in partnership with the Ukrainian Film Academy and EAVE launches a new round of support for Ukrainian films

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Netflix and the Ukrainian Film Academy renew their partnership for a 5th year supporting Ukrainian filmmakers and the country’s film industry affected by the war. Throughout its editions, the initiative has consistently supported  Ukrainian filmmakers through mentorship, capacity building, new professional opportunities, and financial assistance. The program again provides support at the script development stage — a crucial phase in shaping the artistic concept, ensuring dramaturgical coherence, and defining the project’s overall strategy, which is decisive for production, international codelivered-production, and distribution.

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Eligible Projects:

  • Original director-driven fiction feature films of 70 minutes and longer at the development stage at the date of submission. 

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The Program Offers:

  • 15 grants of $15,000 each* for script development for Ukrainian director-driven feature-length original fiction films. Applications will be evaluated by international experts who must not be affiliated with the submitted projects.

  • At the end of the program, the grant recipients’ project teams will receive an English translation of their script and participate in exclusive sessions with experts from EAVE – European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs. During these sessions, they will receive consultations from script doctors and producers focused on project positioning and financing strategies.

  • Additionaly, participants will be able to join the In-Conversation sessions led, among others, by producer Anna Kępińska and screenwriter Kasper Bajon (The High Water, Heweliusz), and by screenwriters Klara Kochańska-Bajon and Nina Lewandowska (Mothers of Penguins).

 

Call to entries is open from March 2 to March 30, 2026.

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Key Program Deadlines:

  • From 11:00:00 on March 2, 2026, to 15:59:59 on March 30, 2026 – acceptance of applications from participants;

  • By May 7, 2026 – announcement of the Grant recipients;

  • By October 30, 2026 – deadline for completion of the script development. 

  • By November 15, 2026 - deadline for submission of financial plan, packaging/co-pro/commissioning, marketing, festival, and distribution strategy  

  • From December 1, 2026 till January 30, 2027 - a series of exclusive online sessions with EAVE experts for the Program Grant recipients.

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Please note that the complete rules and regulations are at the link.

Mandatory fields are marked with *

Section 1. Project Title

Section 2. Scriptwriter Details


Scriptwriter Gender
Is the scriptwriter an internally displaced person after 24.02.2022?
Yes
No
Is the scriptwriter a displaced person*** after 2014?
Yes
No

***Internally displaced persons are persons or groups of persons who were forced to leave their homes or places of permanent residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the consequences of an armed conflict, a situation of general violence, violations of human rights, natural or man-made disasters and who did not cross internationally recognized state border.

Source(s): Art. 2 of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 1998.

Section 3. Producer Details

Producer Gender
Is the producer a displaced person*** after 02/24/2022?
Yes
No
Is the producer an internally displaced person after 2014?
Yes
No

***Internally displaced persons are persons or groups of persons who were forced to leave their homes or places of permanent residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the consequences of an armed conflict, a situation of general violence, violations of human rights, natural or man-made disasters and who did not cross internationally recognized state border.

Source(s): Art. 2 of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 1998.

Legal Status of Producer
PE
LLC

Section 4. Director Details

Director Gender
Is the director an internally displaced person after 24.02.2022?
Yes
No
Is the director a displaced person after 2014?
Yes
No

***Internally displaced persons are persons or groups of persons who were forced to leave their homes or places of permanent residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the consequences of an armed conflict, a situation of general violence, violations of human rights, natural or man-made disasters and who did not cross internationally recognized state border.

Source(s): Art. 2 of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, 1998.

Section 5. Project Information

Section 6. Applicant Details


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