Audience Fund

The BFI Audience Fund awards money from the National Lottery to support audience-focused film activities, including: *film festivals *film distribution *multiplatform distribution proposals *touring and large scale film programmes

The fund aims to expand the diversity of film audiences, with a focus on 16 to 30-year-olds. It is aimed at projects of national scale and significance.

Types of funding: • Project awards support culturally ambitious, national proposals that increase audience diversity. • Organisational awards support experienced organisations offer activities to find new audiences to engage with film.

We want to see a longterm benefit for audience development for independent British and international film.

We prioritise proposals demonstrating: *a focus on increasing the diversity of audiences *national scale and significance *significant cultural ambition

Please submit the application at least 16 weeks before the proposed project start date. We aim to let applicants know the outcome of their application within 12 weeks.

Applicants to the fund must be legally constituted organisations that are centrally managed in the UK.

They should have direct, UK-based experience of film distribution, exhibition and audience development activities, and will likely be organisations such as: *film distributors. *cinemas, including chains or consortia. *film festivals. *film and video archives and collections. *arts organisations with experience of film curation.

Individuals cannot apply. The level of BFI support needed should be £20,000 or more. Applicants should have partnership support.