{"id":12553,"date":"2026-04-08T14:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watershed.co.uk\/filmhub\/?p=12553"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:51:20","slug":"fan-film-exhibition-fund-2026-is-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watershed.co.uk\/filmhub\/news\/fan-film-exhibition-fund-2026-is-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"FAN Film Exhibition Fund 2026 is now open!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submit to the Film Exhibition Fund (FEF) for awards of up to \u00a39,000 per year.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Film Exhibition Fund (FEF) is for awards of up to \u00a39,000 per year.\u202f\u202fThe BFI Film Audience Network (FAN) reaches out across the UK to ensure people have opportunities to watch and enjoy a diverse range of films and moving image, regardless of geography or circumstance.\u202fAs part of FAN, Watershed, the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/watershed.co.uk\/filmhub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Film Hub Lead Organisation for the South West<\/a>\u202fhas been awarded funding from the BFI National Lottery\u202fto support member organisations from across the region to deliver activity to realise this ambition against the priorities set out in the\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bfi.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BFI\u2019s Screen Culture 2033 strategy<\/a>.\u202f\u00a0<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/watershed.co.uk\/filmhub\/film_funding\/fan-film-exhibition-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>FIND OUT MORE AND SUBMIT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submit to the Film Exhibition Fund (FEF) for awards of up to \u00a39,000 per year.\u00a0 The Film Exhibition Fund (FEF) is for awards of up to \u00a39,000 per year.\u202f\u202fThe BFI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,4,13],"tags":[26,38],"class_list":["post-12553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members-only","category-news","category-showing-films","tag-funding","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FAN Film Exhibition Fund 2026 is now open! 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