African Film Press has expanded its Funding Desk, a research tool designed to help African filmmakers and producers navigate grants, rebates, loans, advances, broadcaster support and equity options across screen markets. The live desk labels its dataset as updated in July 2026 and currently presents 104 instruments, with country, format, stage, financing type and amount filters.
The platform also offers a five-question Match My Project flow and a capital-stack builder. Users can narrow the list by production country, project stage and format, then arrange possible instruments into a preliminary financing sequence. The desk explicitly tells applicants to confirm eligibility and current application status on each fund's official website. That warning matters because a research record is not an open call, approval or funding commitment.
A June 3 update from Akoroko described the Funding Desk as part of the African Screen Intelligence system and reported that it had grown to 94 instruments at that point. The July view now shows a larger set, alongside deadline labels and status warnings intended to distinguish active, flagged, closed and announcement-stage options.
African Film Press itself launched in Nairobi in April 2026 as an alliance bringing together Akoroko, Sinema Focus and What Kept Me Up. LBx Africa's launch report described the partners as covering film-industry research, East African screen sectors and Nigerian cinema. The Funding Desk turns part of that editorial and research effort into a practical discovery layer for creators and producers.
For applicants, the useful next step is to treat the desk as a shortlist builder. Open the original fund page, verify the current deadline, country and company eligibility, project stage, rights terms, repayment or recoupment rules, currency and required co-finance before preparing an application. Source pages were checked on August 13, 2026.