Quick-fire micro-grants to help your ideas take off
Funding available
Awards up to: £3,000
Support for in-person & online events
Dates and deadlines
Rolling, apply at any time until 16 Feb 2026
Activity window: Apr 2025 - Mar 2026
Our Pitch Pot fund provides organisations with quick-fire micro-grants for one-off events and short screening programmes.
The Film Exhibition Fund: Pitch Pot is a flexible fund offering support of up to £3,000 for activity taking place between April 2025 and March 2026.
The fund is suitable for organisations looking to start a local screening programme, put on a special event, or enhance their existing programme with extra audience development work.
You can apply at any time from 03 March 2025 to 16 February 2026, just be sure to submit your request form at least four weeks in advance of the project’s start date. We aim to contact you within five working days to inform you of your assessment date and when you will receive feedback.
Read our funding guidelines for more information on the fund, its aims and eligibility criteria. If you have access requirements that mean you need assistance when applying for funds, you can request help through the BFI Access Support Scheme.
A plain text version of these guidelines is available to download below.
You must be a member of our exhibitor network in order to access Film Hub North funding opportunities. To become a member, fill in our application form.
Image credits: MIRA Film Nights; Rianne Pictures; Leeds Palestinian Film Festival
Hear from previous Pitch Pot recipients on projects we’ve supported:
MIRA en español, MIRA Film Nights
This series of 2 events showcased short films in Spanish, followed by filmmaker Q&As, in Manchester. The aim was to showcase the diversity of Spanish speaking cultures on screen, telling stories that connect with the Spanish speaking migrant communities living in Greater Manchester.
Both events sold out and reached capacity. The feedback I received from attendees was incredibly positive… Absolutely everyone who filled out an audience survey selected the option, “I felt welcomed and comfortable at the venue.” This is such a positive indicator that we’re breaking barriers and making cultural venues accessible to everyone… It’s incredibly encouraging and motivates us to continue fostering this inclusive and inviting atmosphere for future events.
Women X Festival, Rianne Pictures
Women x is a BIFA accredited film festival in Darlington, shining a spotlight on the extraordinary talents of women and gender nonconforming directors, writers, and producers.
The legacy we hope to leave from Women X 2023 is a commitment to promoting diversity and inclusivity in the film industry. We believe that everyone should have access to films, regardless of their background, economic status or abilities, and we hope to continue to provide support and resources to ensure that this is possible in an inclusive and safe environment.
Leeds Palestinian Film Festival, Hidden Stories
Leeds Palestinian Film Festival aims to tell the stories of Palestine as widely, accessibly and powerfully as possible, amplifying Palestinian voices by featuring Palestinian film-makers, speakers and artists.
We recognised that offering a different kind of festival this year with a mixture of film and other cultural events was a bold move and we hoped it would generate a larger and different audience… In the end, we were operating at our full capacity the whole time... Our feedback demonstrates that branching out into offering a more varied cultural festival was very welcome and we intend to build on this next year.
