THE COST OF DOCS SURVEY 2024 LAUNCHES AT AL JAZEERA BALKANS
What’s the real cost of making a documentary today? This week (16th September) we launched the 7th edition of the…
The Film & TV Funding Award is awarded annually to an emerging filmmaker from anywhere in the world with the most promising pitch for a director-led documentary. The main award is £100,000 with a runner up development grant worth £20,000.
Applications for 2024 are now closed.
The Podcast Pitch
The Podcast Pitch is a joint initiative with Sheffield DocFest. After a successful pilot at DocFest in June 2023 the competition moves to its second year. The Whickers are giving a £5,000 production award to the winner and £2,000 to a runner up.
Applications for 2024 are now closed.
Bursary Schemes
We have teamed up with four established documentary development forums in parts of the world where funding is limited due to economic or socio-political reasons. Through them we are awarding a £3,000 bursary each year.
See our partners’ websites for application deadlines.
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Who We Are
The Whickers were established in 2015 to fund and recognise original and innovative documentary. We seek to use the generous legacy of our namesake, pioneering broadcaster Alan Whicker, to support emerging film and audio documentary-makers in the funding and production of director led programmes.
Previous Winners
See below for the previous winners of our awards.
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Closing date for completion is Friday 25th October 2025.