The Jazair Awards Film Fund supports two main types of requests, depending on the applicant’s level of experience and the stage of the project.

For emerging filmmakers (first-time or early-career)

You can apply for a grant to support your short film at any of the following stages:

• Script development

• Production (shooting and post-production)

• Finalization (editing, color grading, sound mixing)

This support is intended to help you complete your first or second film and enter the professional ecosystem under strong artistic and technical conditions.

For more experienced filmmakers

If you already have a completed film or an active career, you can apply for support to enhance the visibility and circulation of your work. The Fund can contribute to:

• Travel costs to attend international festivals where your film is officially selected

• Marketing and promotion (trailers, posters, press kits)

• Festival submission fees

• Subtitling and versioning for international screenings

Each application will be evaluated based on artistic merit, strategic relevance, and potential impact.

To be considered for the Jazair Awards Film Fund, your project must meet the following eligibility criteria:

• Short-films, documentary, or animation film, which must be a minimum length of thirty (30) minutes  will be eligible for submission.
• Production company profile, registration documents and passport of authorized signatory as well as an official document proving the legal authorization and capacity of the signatory to sign on behalf of the company for the purpose of entering into the Jazair Awards film Fund Agreement (if project is selected).

The following documents must be submitted in English: 

MANDATORY

• Logline (minimum 30 words, maximum 80 words)
• Synopsis (minimum 300 words, maximum 500 words)
• Film’s Chain of Titles.
• English script.
• Director’s Statement/vision.
• Director’s motivation in video (English subtitles included).
• Links to the previous work of the director.
• Copy of the director’s passport
• Producer’s note.
• Director(s) and producer(s) biographies
• Concept Art for Animation projects.
• Potential list of cast and crew with biographies.
• Complete project budget breakdown in USD (covering all stages: development, production, and post-production)
• Financial plan in USD: full details of any other funding applications made and/or already received (i.e., equity, debt, any other financial grants) this applies to both in-cash or in-kind contributions of any kind, including product placements/commercial tie-ins)
• How the grant money will be utilized during the production stage, should the project be selected
• Detailed timelines and expected date of completion.
• Distribution and distribution strategy.
• Company profile of the applicant/production company (if project is selected).
• Company registration documents (if project is selected).

• Applications must be completed in strict accordance with the Submission Terms in order to be reviewed and considered. Incomplete applications will not be considered under any circumstances.
• Applicants with completed applications will receive a written decision from the Jazair Awards Film Fund Committee approximately twelve (12) weeks after closing the Jazair Awards Film Fund’s application window.   The Jazair Awards Film Fund Committee will not provide any justification for decisions it makes regarding applications. All decisions issued by the Jazair Awards Film Fund Committee are final and not appealable.
• The applicants that are selected by the Jazair Awards Film Fund Committee will receive written decisions which provide details of the amount of the financial support they will receive for their project as well as the requisite steps the applicant must complete in order to receive the Jazair Awards Film Fund’s financial support. The selected applicant must expressly state in writing whether they accept or decline the Jazair Awards Film Fund’s financial support within seven (7) days from the date in which their written decision is received, with any such acceptance always being subject to applicant completing all subsequent acts required by the Jazair Awards Film Fund (including, but not limited to, entering into a Jazair Awards Film Fund Agreement).
• Applicants who accept the Jazair Awards Film Fund’s financial support must enter into the Jazair Awards Film Fund Agreement which contains the standard terms and conditions under which their funding will be provided. Applicants must enter into the Jazair Awards Film Fund Agreement no later than four (4) weeks from the date in which they received their written decision.

• Projects that have been completed and reviewed but not selected by the Jazair Awards Film Fund Committee in its initial application shall be eligible for resubmission at the next application cycle/window; with an exception for Post-Production applications which may not, provided however, that the applicant can demonstrate substantive changes since the initial application.
• The Jazair Awards Film Fund Committee may invite a rejected project to be resubmitted for a later deadline. This decision is made solely at the discretion of the Jazair Awards Film Fund Committee, which will notify the applicant as the case may be.

By submitting an application to the Jazair Awards Film Fund, the applicant represents and warrants to the Jazair Awards Academy the following:

• The project submitted in the application does not infringe, misappropriate, or otherwise violate any rights of any other person or entity.
• The project submitted in the application does not contain any obscene, defamatory, or libelous content.
• The project submitted in the application is not encumbered in any manner whatsoever.
• The applicant holds all rights, consents, and authorizations necessary for the submission of the project in their application.
• The applicant shall not hold the Jazair Awards Academy liable under any circumstances whatsoever for any loss or damage in connection with their submitted project.

• The applicant shall indemnify and keep indemnified the Jazair Awards Academy against all liabilities, claims, demands, actions, costs, damages, or losses arising out of the submission, acceptance, and/or funding of the project.

The applicant acknowledges that they are submitting the project voluntarily, on an unsolicited basis, and not in confidence, and that no confidential, fiduciary, or any other relationship whatsoever is intended or created between the applicant and the Jazair Awards by virtue of submission. Applicant shall remain at all times solely responsible for protecting its rights in the submitted project, including, without limitation, filing or registering the project with any relevant authorities applicable to Copyright or Trademark. The applicant further acknowledges that the laws governing these Submission Terms are that of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, and no other jurisdictional laws or regulations shall apply to the Submission Terms or to any funding (including, without limitation, any potential Jazair Awards Film Fund Agreement). The applicant acknowledges that submission of an application (whether in full compliance with these Submission Terms or otherwise) shall in no way create any obligation of any kind upon the Jazair Awards, and the applicant fully and forever releases the Jazair Awards from any liability and waives any claims that it has or may in the future have against the Jazair Awards in connection with the submission of their project.

• The Jazair Awards reserves the right, at any time, in its sole and absolute discretion to amend any part of these Submission Terms or to revoke any decision or offer of funding made to an applicant without justification or cause.