Italy’s Fondazione Prada has opened a second call for entries for its fresh fund that backs independent films. Launched last year, the annual Fon
Italy’s Fondazione Prada has opened a second call for entries for its fresh fund that backs independent films.
Launched last year, the annual Fondazione Prada Film Fund grants a total of €1.5m to selected projects from around the world.
Submissions are open till August 6 for projects in production and until September 10 for projects in development and post-production.
The fund’s first call last year received over 1,200 submissions and ended up backing 14 projects in total, including films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Hlynur Pálmason and Tatiana Huezo.
Among the 14 projects, four were in development, nine were in production, and one was in post-production. Six were directed by women and eight by men, with two debut features.
The fund says its selection process favours works that combine “artistic quality, formal risk, and thematic urgency, reflecting the energy and heterogeneity of contemporary auteur cinema.”
It has no restrictions on genre or geography. The financial contribution, up to €250,000 for each project, is provided to the main production company.
The final selection will be announced in February 2027. The film fund is headed by Paolo Moretti, the curator of Fondazione Prada’s Cinema Godard programme and a former director of Cannes’s Directors’ Fortnight.
Miuccia Prada, president and director of Fondazione Prada, said: “This second edition of the Film Fund reaffirms our commitment to supporting filmmakers and professionals in the film industry who pursue a free, demanding, and visionary idea of cinema.”
Moretti said: “The response to the first edition of the fund exceeded our expectations. The high volume of applications and the quality of the projects confirmed that independent cinema remains a vital field for research, innovation, and creative freedom.”
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