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Film London

Suite 6.10, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JJ — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7613 7676
Fax: 020 7613 7677
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Website: www.filmlondon.org.uk

Film London is the strategic agency for the film and media sector in London. It is an amalgamation of the London Film Commission (LFC) and the London Film and Video Development Agency (LFVDA), which merged in April 2003. Film London will invest in film production, exhibition and education and in the economic and industry development initiatives across the capital. Included in the vast range of services Film London provide are an information database on hotel deals for filmmakers from outside of town, diary availability for crews and location managers, a filmmakers code of practice and a listing of London's film services. Various development schemes outlined on their website aim to nurture the capital's film, TV and animation professionals and support the training sector.
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MEDIA Plus

Administered by UK Media Desk, Contact: Agnieszka Moody, 4th Floor, 66-68 Margaret Street, London W1W 8SR — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7323 9733
Fax: 020 7323 9747
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Website: www.mediadesk.co.uk

MEDIA is a six year programme of the European Union to strengthen the competitiveness of the European film, TV and new media industries and to increase the international circulation of European audiovisual product. MEDIA Plus commenced on 1 January 2001 and will run to 31 December 2006. With a budget of 513 million Euro (around GBP 350 million) MEDIA Plus supports professional training (screenwriting, business and new technologies), project development (single/slate), and the distribution and promotion of European audiovisual works. Independent production and distribution companies can apply for development or distribution funding in the form of grants and interest free loans. Financial assistance is available for training providers and organisers of markets and festivals. Individuals may also benefit from subsidised places on training courses and international markets. Support is available for production and new media companies, sales agents, distributors, festival and market organisers, training providers and exhibitors.
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Arts Council England - London

14 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 3NQ — Google Maps
Tel: 0845 300 6200
Website: www.artscouncil.org.uk

London's Government-funded visual art and crafts funders, Arts Council England supplies monies via its Grants for the Arts programme, recently cut by 35% in the face of money being redirected by government to the Olympics, making this even more competitive. In 2003/04, Grants for the Arts distributed £1.78 million to individual artists working in London through 316 awards (and £7.4 million to organisations through 445 awards, and £4 million for touring through 97 awards). In all, ACE received 2,500 application, including some that were ineligible. ACE are currently working to encourage more applications from freelance curators, project organisers and critics, who are currently under-represented in the funding allocation. Eligible projects include research and development, travel (including international), networking events and independent projects. They are also keen to support activities promoting critical debate on the production and presentation of contemporary visual art; for example, events, seminars, conferences, publications (paper based / electronic), periodicals, catalogues and artists' books.
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Celeste Prize

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Website: www.celesteprize.com/prize

International Art prize, open to Painting, Photography and Digital Graphic, Video and Animation, Installation and Sculpture. There is a total of 40,000 Euros in Prizes. Application entry is 80 Euros for a single artwork and 4 supporting images, deadline to enter works for Celeste Prize this year is 30 September 2010.
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Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

Whitefriars, Lewins Mead, Bristol BS1 2AE — Google Maps
Tel: 0117 987 6500
Fax: 0117 987 6600
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Website: www.ahrc.ac.uk

AHRC have a range of UK-wide programmes supporting the highest quality research and postgraduate training in the arts and humanities. From around 1500 applications to their seven Research schemes they make around 550-600 awards. From around 5500 applications to their Postgraduate schemes for funding people in Higher education they make around 1500 awards. In addition, AHRC manage on an agency basis for HEFCE (the Higher Education Funding Council for England) almost £10 million to fund museums, galleries and other collections in English HEIs (Higher Education Institutions).
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Animate!

PO Box 25860, London N5 1GZ — Google Maps
Tel: 0870 241 4687
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Website: http://www.animateonline.org/

Animate! is a commissioning agency for projects for television and artists film and video. Their schemes are not limited to animators but applicants must be resident in the UK and have some experience of the manipulation of imagery in film, video or digital media. Full guidelines and details of current projects are available at Animate! website.
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Film Council

10 Little Portland Street, London W1W 7JG — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7861 7861
Fax: 020 7861 7862
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Website: www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk

The Film Council was set up by the Government in April 2000 to be the lead organisation for the UK film industry. Its remit includes the encouragement of both cultural and commercial film activity. The principal source of its funds is the National Lottery, and it will channel all public money for film production and the National Film and Television School. See www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/funding/ for information on the Council's funding strands.
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London Artists Film & Video Awards

Suite 6.10, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JJ — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7613 7676
Fax: 020 7613 7677
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Website: flamin.filmlondon.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=956

In 2001, the London Artists' Film and Video Awards were launched by LFVDA and Arts Council England - London. These awards were made available to individual artists for the production of film/video art for exhibition in galleries, other exhibition spaces or cinemas. There are two main strands for the awards: Development Awards: Funding up to £5,000 aimed at artists at the start of their career or established artists experimenting with new concepts and practice. The emphasis is on process rather than finished product, developing the artist as much as the piece. Production and Completion Awards: The major awards for up to £20,000 are intended for fully developed projects with a defined and realisable exhibition and distribution plan.
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Microwave

Website: www.filmlondon.org.uk/content.asp?CategoryID=779

Funding for full length film for up to £75,000 with the option of raising additional in-kind support taking the budget to a maximum of £100,000. The scheme will provide an intensive approach to film-making, with an emphasis on tightly focused scripts, short production schedules and commercial potential. Backed by the BBC, the scheme provides up to £75,000 of direct funding per project together with a unique professional mentoring scheme from leading industry figures.
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Olympus Optical Co (UK) Ltd

2-8 Honduras Street, London EC1Y 0TX — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7253 2772
Fax: 020 7250 4600
Website: www.olympus.co.uk

Sponsors events and individuals involved in photography, and considers all requests. Contact Sarah Cubitt, Communications Manager.
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The Photography Prize

The Photographer's Gallery, 5 & 8 Greta Newport Street, London WC2H 7HY — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7831 1772
Fax: 020 7836 9704
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Website: www.photonet.org.uk

First awarded in 1997, this prize celebrates the diversity and importance of photgraphy in British art. £15,000 prize goes to the artist who has made the greatest contribution to the medium of photoghraphy in the year previous to the prize.
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The European Association for Jewish Culture

Lena Stanley-Clamp, Director, European Association for Jewish Culture, London Office, 79 Wimpole Street, London W1G 9RY — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7935 8266
Fax: 020 7935 3252
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Website: www.jewishcultureineurope.org/More_about_us.htm

The European Association for Jewish Culture is an independent organisation which funds visual arts exhibitions, theatre, documentary films and music which address the Jewish experience. This grant programme is designed to provide part-funding for new exhibitions of contemporary art by awarding grants to professional artists to produce new work for exhibition in a recognised cultural venue, and freelance curators for researching and organising an exhibition of contemporary art, which addresses the Jewish experience. The application should be submitted by professional artists or curators in association with an exhibition venue. Grants in the range of Euro 5,000 to 10,000 will be awarded to successful candidates in two instalments.
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Wellcome Trust Arts Awards

Gibbs Building, 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7611 7222
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Website: www.wellcome.ac.uk/arts

The Wellcome Trust believes the arts are an effective way of stimulating debate and engaging people with biomedical science. Visual art, music, moving image, creative writing and performance can reach new audiences which may not traditionally be interested in science and provide new ways of thinking about the social, cultural and ethical issues around contemporary science. Funding can be applied for at two levels: small to medium-sized projects (up to and including GBP 30 000). Funding can either be used to support the development of new project ideas, deliver small-scale productions or workshops, investigate and experiment with new methods of engagement through the arts, or develop new collaborative relationships between artists and scientists. Large projects (above GBP 30 000), the funding can be used to fund full or part production costs for large-scale arts projects that aim to have significant impact on the public's engagement with biomedical science. There is a deadline in January for the large Award scheme and four deadlines a year for the smaller Awards.
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Animate Projects

89 Borough High Street, London SE1 1NL — Google Maps
Tel: 020 7407 3944
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Website: www.animateprojects.org
Website: www.myspace.com/animateprojects
Website: www.animateonline.org

Animate is a groundbreaking commissioning project established by Arts Council England and Channel 4 to support risk taking and experimental animation works for television. Exploding the traditional preconceptions of what animation is and could be, Animate exists to break down barriers and challenge expectations. The project explores the relationship between art and animation and the place of animation and its concepts in contemporary art practice. Since 1990 Animate has commissioned 84 dynamic and diverse films including works from David Shrigley & Chris Shepherd (Who I Am and What I Want), Run Wrake (Rabbit) and AL + AL (Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey and Interstellar Stella), amongst others.
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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Art Grant

Janice Thorpe
Central Library, Phillimore Walk, London, W8 7RX — Google Maps
Tel: 0207 361 3844
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Website: www.rbkc.gov.uk

The Arts Grants scheme is for arts activities or projects (by organisations or individuals) which are undertaken within the boundaries of the Royal Borough and demonstrate that they meet at least two of its strategic objectives. Also offer free funding surgeries. Deadlines three times a year, in 2010 * 5pm, Friday 21 May 2010, by 5pm, Friday 24 September 2010, by 5pm, Friday 21 January 2011
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Pavilion

Host Media Centre, 21 Savile Mount, Leeds LS7 3HZ — Google Maps
Tel: 0113 200 7061
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Website: www.pavilion.org.uk

Pavilion is a visual arts commissioning agency that invests in the talent of emerging photographers through national exhibitions, publications, critical dialogue, a website including an online gallery, events and participation. It also provides portfolio review sessions.
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The Elephant Trust

Ruth Rattenbury
512 Bankside Lofts, 65 Hopton Street London SE1 9GZ — Google Maps
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Website: www.elephanttrust.org.uk

Roland Penrose and Lee Miller created The Elephant Trust in 1975 to develop and improve the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the fine arts in the UK. The Trust was set up to help artists present their work and undertake and complete projects when frustrated by lack of funds. It is committed to helping artists and institutions that depart from the routine and signal new, distinct and imaginative sets of possibilities. Grants have usually been limited to £2,000 but larger grants may be considered. Deadlines for 2010 are:13 April and 28 June.
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Eugene Smith Fund

c/o International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036, USA — Google Maps
Website: www.smithfund.org/apply/smith

The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith's concerned photography and dedicated compassion exhibited during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. Deadline for aplications in 2010 is 31 May.
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Northern Rock Fundation

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Website: www.nr-foundation.org.uk

The Northern Rock Foundation has reopened its grants programme for high-quality and high-profile culture and heritage projects in North East England and Cumbria. The programme will be worth £2 million in 2008. Northern Rock Foundation is seeking applications to support performing arts, contemporary craft, design and new media, museum and heritage exhibitions, festivals and collaborations as well as professional training for people working in these areas.
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Prix Pictet

The Prix Pictet Secretariat, Candlestar, 8 Hammersmith Broadway, London W6 7AL — Google Maps
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Website: www.prixpictet.com

The Prix Pictet is a major new global prize in photography that focuses on sustainability. With a single annual prize of CHF 100,000, the Prix Pictet will reward photographers and the images they use to tell stories of urgent global significance. Each year the Prix Pictet will focus on a distinct sustainability theme. Entry to the Prix Pictet is by nomination.
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