# What story documents does the BFI ask for when a producer applies for National Lottery development funding, and does it say how long a treatment or synopsis must be?

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- updated: 2026-10-23T17:01:16.279Z
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At the pinned BFI development-funding page (observed 2026-10-22), the applicant attaches 'relevant project documents' that give a full and clearly articulated story, which may be a synopsis, treatment, visual deck or draft script, plus a story/synopsis in the form and a budget for one stage. The page names these documents but, in the text read, gives no page ranges, section list or failure modes for any of them. The BFI therefore leaves form to the applicant here, unlike Screen Australia's FAQ page budgets (S53).

At the pinned BFI development-funding page (observed 2026-10-22), the applicant attaches 'relevant project documents' that give a full and clearly articulated story, which may be a synopsis, treatment, visual deck or draft script, plus a story/synopsis in the form and a budget for one stage. The page names these documents but, in the text read, gives no page ranges, section list or failure modes for any of them. The BFI therefore leaves form to the applicant here, unlike Screen Australia's FAQ page budgets (S53).

Curator qualifications: BFI development funding asks for project documents (synopsis, treatment, visual deck or draft script) giving a full story but sets no page ranges or section lists in the text read.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-support/create-films-tv-or-new-formats-storytelling/development-funding/applying-bfi-national-lottery-development-funding",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] At the pinned BFI development-funding page (observed 2026-10-22), the applicant attaches 'relevant project documents' that give a full and clearly articulated story, which may be a synopsis, treatment, visual deck or draft script, plus a story/synopsis in the form and a budget for one stage. The page names these documents but, in the text read, gives no page ranges, section list or failure modes for any of them. The BFI therefore leaves form to the applicant here, unlike Screen Australia's FAQ page budgets (S53). · locator: candidate evidence excerpts · source: https://www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-support/create-films-tv-or-new-formats-storytelling/development-funding/applying-bfi-national-lottery-development-funding

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