NFVF SEDIBA CREATIVE ENTERPRISE PROGRAMME CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

1. ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) invites applications from experienced producers who own or manage a South African production company.

The Sediba Creative Enterprise Programme is business training. It is not a craft or development programme, and it is not about a single film. Across eleven contact days you work on your own company: how it earns, what it owns, how it is financed, and how it reaches the market.

You leave with a three-year business plan, a financial model, a costed market-access roadmap and an investor-ready pitch, which you present to a panel of funders, commissioners, financiers and buyers.

Twenty producers are selected. There is no cost to participate.

2. WHO SHOULD APPLY

This programme is for the person who makes the commercial decisions in a production company: the owner, the director, or the managing producer.

It is not for line producers, production managers or heads of department working under commission. The programme produces a plan for a business, and you must be able to implement it.

Your company must operate in film, television, documentary, animation or digital content production.

Twenty places are available. Ten are allocated to producers based in Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, and ten to producers based in the remaining provinces.

3. WHAT THE PROGRAMME COVERS

Every session is applied to your own company. There are no case studies.

4. WHAT YOU WILL PRODUCE

Four deliverables, all at company level. Certification depends on all four.

• A three-year business plan for your company A three-year financial model, with cash flow, breakeven and funding requirement A costed market-access roadmap naming target buyers, markets and timing An investor-ready pitch, presented to the panel on 28 January 2027
• A three-year business plan for your company
• A three-year financial model, with cash flow, breakeven and funding requirement
• A costed market-access roadmap naming target buyers, markets and timing
• An investor-ready pitch, presented to the panel on 28 January 2027

5. FORMAT AND DATES

The refinement period gives you four working weeks to finish the plan using your own company data, test assumptions with your accountant, and rehearse before you pitch.

6. WHAT THE NFVF COVERS

There is no participation fee. The NFVF covers:

• Facilitation, guest expert sessions and one-on-one business consultation Venue and catering for the in-person week Flights, accommodation and ground transport for selected producers who need to travel to Johannesburg A data allowance for the online components Learning materials, financial modelling templates and business plan toolkits
• Facilitation, guest expert sessions and one-on-one business consultation
• Venue and catering for the in-person week
• Flights, accommodation and ground transport for selected producers who need to travel to Johannesburg
• A data allowance for the online components
• Learning materials, financial modelling templates and business plan toolkits

Not covered: your own time, fees charged by your own accountant or attorney, and any cost outside the programme.

7. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

You must meet all of the following:

• You own or manage a registered South African production company You are the owner, director or managing producer with commercial decision-making authority over the business The company has traded actively for a minimum of two years, or you hold three or more years of senior or middle management experience in production You hold at least one produced credit as producer, co-producer or executive producer You can provide financial statements or management accounts for the most recent financial year
• You own or manage a registered South African production company
• You are the owner, director or managing producer with commercial decision-making authority over the business
• The company has traded actively for a minimum of two years, or you hold three or more years of senior or middle management experience in production
• You hold at least one produced credit as producer, co-producer or executive producer
• You can provide financial statements or management accounts for the most recent financial year

8. SELECTION CRITERIA

Applications that meet the eligibility criteria are scored against a weighted rubric. Preference is given to: