Apply for Teledoc Grant Scheme (Netherlands)

A Teledoc is a layered documentary with a screening time of 75 – 90 minutes with a contemporary theme and a subject with a clear Dutch connection.

The scheme is aimed at independent documentary directors and producers. Experienced directors are challenged to develop a film with a universal theme and authorial vision, which is cinematographically stimulating, narrative and accessible to a wide audience.

Funding Information

• The contribution for development included test recordings is a maximum of €45,000 and for realization a maximum of €425,000 for a maximum of 4 projects per year.

Eligibility Criteria

• Submission of proposals for development is open to both independent documentary producers together with a director as well as for directors alone.
• Producers and creators are in principle not affiliated with a broadcaster.
• Submission for realization is only possible after a development application has been approved within Teledoc by the team of producer and director.
• The director and the producer cannot be one and the same person.
• The production company must have been established and active in the Netherlands for at least 2 years and the producer who legally represents the production company must have relevant work experience in the professional film and television sector.

Selection Criteria

• The film plan is a layered documentary with a screening time of 75 – 90 minutes with an urgent and universal theme that touches on a social undercurrent and a subject that is relevant to a broad Dutch audience.
• A clear author’s vision for a documentary that is both cinematographically distinctive, innovative as it is ambitious.

Application Requirements

• A development application consists of 2 A4 pages with the synopsis of the intended Teledoc, plus 2 pages of explanation, including at least a motivation and vision on the direction, and CV/filmography of the director and (if already a team) of the producer, including telephone number and e-mail address.
• The CV must show whether the applicants meet the criteria. The filmography must include therefore of the mentioned films it should be indicated:
  • the lengths;
  • broadcaster and date of broadcast;
  • cinema circulation data (number of screenings, theatres, visitors); and
  • any festival selections and awards.

For more information, visit Dutch Film Fund.