Culture Resource Production Awards 2022

Deadline: October 14, 2022

The Production Awards program supports artists and writers from the Arab region, below the age of 35, by offering grants to enable them to produce their first creative projects. Grants of up to €8,500 are available for projects in literature, music, performing arts, and visual arts, and up to €13,000 for projects in cinema and video. Every year, 20 projects are selected for the grants, four in each artistic category.
The program helps give young people the opportunity to create original works and develop new forms of artistic and literary expression.

Since it was first launched in 2004, the Production Awards program has provided around 300 grants to artistic innovators in the Arab region.

Program Goals

The Production Awards program aims to support and encourage the artistic and literary productivity and creativity of a new generation of young artists and writers from the Arab region.

Grants are available for the following disciplines:

• Performing arts: Development and production of theater, dance, and other performing arts works.
• Visual arts: Development and production of artworks, exhibits, installations, and books in the various visual arts disciplines, including sculpture, engraving, photography, and light art
• Literature: Creation and publication of novels, short stories, poetry collections, and theater texts.
• Music: Creation and recording of audio and audiovisual music works.
• Cinema/video: Production of short, medium-length and feature fictional, documentary, animated, and
  experimental films and video works. Grants are available for projects in the production and post-production stages.

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Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be between 15 and 35 years old as of the next first of January. Applications submitted by individuals, not in this age bracket will be discarded;
• Applicants must originate from an Arab country regardless of ethnicity and citizenship status or whether they are currently residing in the Arab region or abroad;
• Application is open to artists of all disciplines: Performance arts, visual arts, literature, music, cinema/video, etc.

Application Procedure

• Please read the application guidelines carefully before completing the application form.
• The application must be completed entirely in Arabic, apart from the blanks that require English.
• Include all necessary supporting documents (see the guidelines) with the application form.

Note: Applications that do not meet the eligibility requirements and that do not include all required attachments, supporting documents, and examples of previous works will be eliminated and not be forwarded to the jury.

Application Procedure

Please follow the following steps in order to create an account and register on the online applications platform:

1. Enter the online applications site and fill in the required registration information.
2. After clicking the “register” icon, you will receive a link by email. Click on the link to activate your account.
3. Once you activated your account, you can re-enter the online application platform using your email address and password. You will then find the application form which you can fill out online.

Application Registration Deadline: 14th October 2022

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