Meet The Whickers’ and Sheffield DocFest Podcast Pitch Award Finalists 2025
We are thrilled to unveil our six final projects for the 2025 Podcast Pitch Award. In, what is only our…
The Film & TV Funding Award is awarded annually to an emerging filmmaker from anywhere in the world with the most promising pitch for a director-led documentary. The main award is £100,000 with a runner up development grant worth £20,000.
Applications are CLOSED.
The Podcast Pitch is a joint initiative with Sheffield DocFest now in its third year. This year The Whickers are giving a £15,000 production award to the winner and £5,000 to a runner up.
Applications are CLOSED.
We have teamed up with four established documentary development forums in parts of the world where funding is limited due to economic or socio-political reasons. Through them we are awarding a £3,000 bursary each year.
See our partners’ websites for application deadlines.
We are thrilled to unveil our six final projects for the 2025 Podcast Pitch Award. In, what is only our…
The Whickers and Sheffield DocFest Announce Shortlist for Podcast Pitch Award 2025 The Whickers, in partnership with Sheffield DocFest, are…
We are thrilled to unveil our five projects, six finalists for the 2025 Whickers Film & TV Funding Award. Chosen…
The Whickers were established in 2015 to fund and recognise original and innovative documentary. We seek to use the generous legacy of our namesake, pioneering broadcaster Alan Whicker, to support emerging film and audio documentary-makers in the funding and production of director led programmes.
See below for the previous winners of our awards.
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The Whickers Film & TV Awards 2025 are now CLOSED for submissions.
The Whickers Podcast Awards 2025 are now CLOSED for submissions.