Filmmakers are to continue their battle to get more funding but the National Film and Video Foundation's budget is barely meeting current demands.Yesterday, the foundation's CEO, Zama Mkosi, said the demand for funding exceeded the budget by 116% each quarter.Mayenzeke Baza - director of international relations of the Association for Transformation in Film and Television - said it was difficult to create films without a subsidy. He said the industry was highly subsidised and few local films attracted private equity.Said Baza: "In South Africa there's no way you can make a film without government funding."According to the performance plan that the National Film and Video Foundation presented to parliament's arts and culture portfolio committee, it will have less than R120-million to spend on supporting filmmaking in this financial year. It is expected that this will increase to R140-million by 2018.The plan will fund 66 projects in development and 38 in production, place 20 interns, award 64 bursaries and fund one female-owned production company, which will be expected to produce 10 films over the next three years.The funding for the 66 development projects will be capped at R1.2-million. The projects include six documentaries, four films by "emerging" black filmmakers and three fiction films over the next three years.Mkosi said the foundation received over 500 bursary applications a year but could afford to fund only 20.The foundation receives more than 200 funding proposals from filmmakers every three months.Mkosi said: "The films we fund aren't limited to blockbusters. [We try to] find the balance between stories that need to be told and those that educate, entertain and capture our history."Among the films the foundation has funded are Ayanda , Happiness is a Four-Letter Word , Hard to Get and the soon-to-be-released romantic comedy Mrs Right Guy...