Talent Development
BFI Doc Society Fund
1-2-1 Advice Sessions
Morning Brews with the BFI Doc Society team
Morning Brews with the BFI Doc Society team
From September 2025, the BFI Doc Society team will be hosting regular online coffee mornings. During these informal meet-ups, you can ask us questions about our funds, get advice on challenges you're dealing with, connect with other filmmakers and maybe get some peer-to-peer feedback!
We aim to host these hour-long gatherings twice per month, with a maximum capacity of 10 attendees per session. Filmmakers cannot attend more than one coffee morning per three months, as we want to provide as much access to the film fund team as possible.
These sessions will replace our 1-2-1 advice sessions for the time being.
Please note that we can not discuss any active applications to our funds. If you have access requirements to attend, please email sanne@docsociety.org.
Find available sessions here. More will be announced down the line. Make yourself a good ☕ or 🫖 and join us!
BFI DOC SOCIETY FUND
EVENTS
Bertha DocHouse Made of Truth Screening
Screening - Made of Truth: Made of Us
Wednesday 10 December, 18:20 // Bertha DocHouse, London
In collaboration with Bertha DocHouse we're presenting a selection of recent short documentaries funded through our Made of Truth Fund.
The films in this programme explore how the places we come from and the places we land make us who we are. Four films move through intimate recollections of family histories, the challenge of finding a new home in a new country, and the struggles of individuals caught up in social circumstances beyond their control. We will screen Adura Baba Mi (Juliana Kasumu), Folk (Noémi Varga), After Eight (Mos Hannan, Usayd Younis) and A Story Left Behind (Asma Kabadeh). The filmmakers will be in attendance for an extended post-screening Q&A.
BFI DOC SOCIETY FUND
OPPORTUNITIES
FUTURE PROOF Development Lab
Call for Applications: FUTURE PROOF Development Lab
We are now accepting applications for FUTURE PROOF, a lab for the development of new, formally innovative non-fiction cinema and immersive moving image works by emerging to mid-career UK-based directors and lead creatives. The lab is delivered by FACT Liverpool and Doc Society, supported by the BFI Creative Challenge Fund, awarding National Lottery funding.
We are looking for participants working towards projects in line with the aims of the lab: investigating and/or working with new technologies, considering the cultural, environmental, and socio-political influences of these technologies and their impact on information ecosystems, trust, and the production of truth.
The programme will consist of two in-person residential lab events in Liverpool (January) and London (March), attendance at CPH:DOX (Denmark), and virtual sessions.
Selected participants will receive financial support to help cover the costs of taking part including a daily rate as well as arrangement of travel, accommodation and subsistence costs.
Applications close on 11 December, 12pm GMT.
Find all info, eligibility criteria and application form here.
We are also recruiting for a lab Programme Manager and Programme Coordinator. Find more info here!
Group Attendance to Visions du Réel 2026
Call for Applications: Group Attendance to Visions du Réel 2026
Dates of travel 18 – 22 April 2026 // Nyon, Switzerland
In collaboration with BFI we are hosting a Group Attendance of UK creative non-fiction producers to the next edition of Visions du Réel, Switzerland, in April 2026.
We are now welcoming applications from UK-based producers with creative documentary projects in active development to take part in this opportunity.
The deadline for applications is 10am on Thursday 11 December 2025.
Creative Non-Fiction Playlist
Interested in short creative non-fiction work? Looking for inspiration or insight into the wider short film landscape? Maybe you've applied to our Made of Truth Fund or are intending to do so in the future?
We've put together a selection of freely available, great short films that have been successful at international festivals, across forms and approaches. Worth a watch, and there are a few Made of Truth funded titles in there too!
