How to apply for a One World Student Bursary

UK Bursaries - Applications have now closed. Successful students will be notified in May.

The scheme supports film and video students, as well as postgraduate students, who are currently studying practical documentary-making at a UK film school or university. It provides them with training, support, and modest grants, to help them shoot their final-year film in a developing country.

For more information, you can read background on the bursaries, or download the Bursaries criteria (pdf) or Application guidelines (pdf).

The Trust has worked with a number of recognised film schools in the past in distributing and receiving bursary applications - these are shown below. However, we are continually seeking to involve new film schools, so please get in touch if you represent a film school and would like to get involved with the bursary scheme.

Overseas bursaries: the Trust organises the overseas bursaries through certain film schools with which it has established a relationship. This means we can't accept applications directly from film students around the world. The overseas bursary recipients apply through the tutors at their respective film schools.

The Trust has worked with the following film schools in organising overseas bursaries:

Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television (EICTV), Cuba

South African School of Motion Picture and Live Performance (AFDA), South Africa

National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), South Africa

Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, India

Film and Television Institute of India, India