Film London's FLAMIN has partnered with Portland Green Cultural Projects and the Hayward Gallery to launch a major new development and production opportunity.

ALFF, an abbreviation of Artists' Long Format Film, invites exciting, ambitious, long format films that can be made with a development and production budget of between £120K and £400K.

This call for proposals invites strong, original ideas for films of any genre, including creative documentary, drama, artists' film, cinematic essay or animation, which uses dance/performance as a driver. The partners are committed to facilitating a major new moving image work that explores this area of practice. This is not a production award, rather, it is a vehicle from which to finance, produce and distribute a long form film.

Applications are now open for this unique commission, which is inspired by the critical and crossover success of films such as Clio Barnard's The Arbor, Gillian Wearing's Self Made and Wim Wenders' Pina, which clearly demonstrate the range of contemporary performance styles that can be used effectively in long format films and still attract a mainstream audience.

The deadline for applications is 5pm on Wednesday 1 February 2012.

More information on the commission and details of the application process can be found via the Projects Section.