AIFF is the only funding organization that can operate on a cross-border basis without any limitations on the applicant’s country. We can support filmmakers from any part of the Arctic.

Arctic Indigenous filmmakers are spreading information about the impacts of climate change and how Indigenous communities are adapting and working to stop its effects. If you want to make a real change and difference, support Arctic Indigenous filmmakers directly, where they are living and witnessing the climate and nature of the Arctic.

More reasons you can find here.

AIFF has guidelines, regulations and it is working under Norwegian law.

Project fund and trust fund. Read more about these options here.

You can also donate directly with PayPal here.

If you are interested in providing project funding or donating to trust fund, contact our film commissioner Liisa Holmberg , +47 930 36 145.

You can also donate directly with PayPal here.

We co-operate at the moment with

• Sundance Institute
• Canada Media Fund
• Telefilm Canada
• Nunavut Film Corporation
• Film Greenland
• ISFI
• Sakha Film

Indigenous filmmakers in the Arctic area: Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Sweden, Norway and Finland.

For

• Script development (personally, no company needed)
• Development (production company needed)
• Production (production company needed)

We offer

• grants
• training with workshops and seminars
• help for finding production teams: we support cooperation among Indigenous filmmakers by bringing together the most talented filmmakers and helping them to achieve the best possible production terms.

75 % of the grant will be paid after the Grant Agreement has been signed. The remaining 25 % will be paid after returning the final report with required attachments. Read more about the reporting here.

First, you have to accept the offered grant within 3 months. After signing the grant agreement, you will be paid 75% of the grant. Following that, you can begin working according to the production plan and timetable. Once the production is finished, submit a final report and other required documents in the application portal.

Depending on the grant you have received, you must return the following documents and materials:

Script grant:

• Reporting form
• Complete script

Development grant:

• Reporting form
• Financial statement
• Project funding
• Project financial report
• The potential pilot
• Script and other material which has been completed in relation to the project implementation

Production grant:

• Reporting form
• Financial statement
• Project funding
• Project financial report
• Film file
• Poster photo
• Five high-quality still photos
• A short description of the film

The requirements are that you are an arctic Indigenous filmmaker, and if you apply for development and production grants, you also have to have a production company.

AIFF Board of Directors.