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OTHER

EUROPEAN FILMOGRAPHIES:

CINEMA IN NON-HEGEMONIC

LANGUAGES

Participant member’s fact sheets

09/21/2015 SAN SEBASTIÁN INTERNACIONAL FILM FESTIVAL


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There are a growing number of film productions coming frombilingual countries or communities with languages that are notspoken outside of their frontiers. These films may therefore havea small domestic market, less visibility, as well as a more difficultaccess to the international cultural market. However, in recentyears new filmographies have been enriching the Europeanscene, sometimes from the peripheries, sometimes from newly

autonomous nations, with an increasing level of creative andindustrial maturity.Sharing experiences and knowing each other, as well as eachother’s policies, can generate a valuable exchange of ideas whenfaced with key challenges such as visibility, internationalization,sustainability and coproduction options for our filmographies.


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CLARA MONTERO

[email protected]

Data on your region (General data)Population:2.172.877 (2014)Official languages:Basque (spoken or understood by 50%),Spanish (spoken by 100%) (Basquespeakers also in Navarra and south ofFrance)GDP/head:

29.683 (2014)Major cities:Bilbao, Donostia-San Sebastián, Vito-ria-Gasteiz

Elaborate plans to support and develop thecultural sector in the Basque Country.

FUNDS: scripts, development, production(short films, animation, feature, documentaries),promotion, dubbing/subtitling, support forexhibitors/cinema theatres, festivals,

TYPE: feature films, short films, documentaries,animation, cross media/ new platforms.

Etxepare Institute: Basque Regional Agency topromote abroad the Basque Country culture,creativity and language. The Instituto Etxeparehas some financing Calls to promote theBasque culture (travel grants for cinema, grantsfor participation in professional markets) andhas also agreements with universities abroad.

Annual Budget (funds: Basque government +public television) 7.500.000€Number of productions (2011)Feature films: 20Documentaries: 73 TV-movie: 10Series: 11

Total assistance: 4,1M

Assistant per inhabitant: 1,9 (2013)Number of released films: 623

Main priorities of your organization

Do you already have programs/tools/ agreements with other partners/ regions/countries to support thevisibility and exchange of your films?

General data / information on theaudiovisual sector in your sphere

of influence

HEZKUNTZA; HIZKUNTZA POLITIKA ETAKULTURA SAILA EUSKO JAURLARITZA

GOVIERNO VASCO


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Zineuskadi: Platform for the promotion of Basque andEuropean films, being one of its main programs ZinemaEuskaraz and FilmAzpit

Zinema Euskaraz (Cinema in Basque): make filmsin Basque available to the public. Lines of actions:theatrical and DVD releases DVD releases, funds for

subtitling/dubbing into Basque, special actions inschools.

FilmAzpit: a program that selects films, acquire theirrights and subtitle them in order to make them availablefor non-profit institutions.

ETB: Basque Public Television participating in co-productions of Basque films as well as buying TV rights.

Etxepare Institute

Eiken: Cluster of the audiovisual sector

Langune: Cluster of the language industries

- Creative Europe Media Desk- Cine-regio- Zineuskadi- San Sebastian International Film Festival- Etxepare Institute- Film Commissions (San Sebastian, Bilbao, Vitoria)- Donostia 2016: European Capital of Culture- Producers associations- Association of cinema theaters

- More visibility in Europe- Access to distribution circuits- Access to other European TV platforms- Exchange opportunities also for our cultural agents

- A mapping/catalogue or lines of work and tools thatcan be shared- A joint strategy to brand filmographies in otherlanguages- Circuits for our films- A formal network or working group

Do you think that you havetools/programs that cansupport the goals of ourworking groups?(e.g: public tv with coproduction,

VOD platforms, subsidies for

exhibitors/distributors, schoolcinema circuit, subsidies for

subtitles, etc.)

Cooperation/collaboration/ participation frameworks ineuropean and internationalnetworks, festivals, otherpartners, european projects,etc.

Main needs regardingpositioning yourself in theeuropean and internationalsphere(e.g.: more opportunities to

cooperate with other organizations,

forums and film theatres to screen

films, mobility of professionals,

contact with your Creative Europe

Desk, etc.)

As for the proposal promotedby the basque government/ basque audiovisual fund toset up a forum and a circuitof spaces and contacts tosupport placing films andprofessionals in smallerlanguages or europeancountries, what are your

specific proposals?


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THOMAS GAMMELTOFT CEO

[email protected]

Data on your region (General data)Population:583 349 (2015 ) 5,6M (Denmark)Official languages:Danish,Denmark:

PURPOSE: invest in international and Danishfilm and TV productions, to be produced intheir member municipalities. Primarily invests ininternational productions of high artistic meritwith Danish co-producers, or Danish projectswith substantial international financing anddistribution in place.

FUNDING PROGRAMS: production for featured

films, TV-drama, documentaries and animation.In special cases the Fund may invest inpostproduction. It is not possible to apply tothe Fund for investments in script, developmentand financing costs.

Applicat ions are processed on an ongoingbasis and processing will usually take amaximum of four weeks.

Creative Europe MEDIA desk



COPENHAGEN FILM FUND


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Founded in 2013. Focal point: the whole Capital Region

BUDGET: 4,7M (3 years 2013-2016)

Annually, each krone invested creates an added valueof 3,2-5,8 kroner directly in the film industry and relatedbusinesses.

It is estimated, that up to 75% of the productions thatthe fund have attracted to date would not have come toDenmark without the fund’s investment.

DENMARK:Number of feature films produced: 21

Number of documentaries produced: 27Number of co-productions min/maj.: maj. 3 / min. 10 Total admissions: 12,2MNational Market Share: 29%Screens total: 406 Ticket average price: 8.7€158 cinemas

Major national film funds: Danish Film Institute, NordiskFilm & TV Fond, Copenhagen Film Fund

- DanskeDramatikere- Nordisk Film- FilmGEAR- Engelbrecht Construction- Dansk Skuespillerforbund- Kamera Udlejningen- Magic Hour films- Filmstationen- Fridthjof film- Redrental aps- Danske Danish Film Directors Instructorer- Faf - Producent Foreningen- Region Hovedstaden- Made in Copenhagen

General data / information onthe audiovisual sector in yoursphere of influence



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FRANK [email protected]

Data on your region (General data)Population: 3.150.980 (2007)GDP per capita: 26.595 (2011)Official Languages: French,(Basque non official but spoken inIparralde)

Promote Basque culture in his different forms,either directly driven and managed by the BasqueCultural Institute (BCI), or through projects run bythe hundred members (associations and artists) ofthe BCI and supported by BCI.

Basque Cultural Institute supports production anddiffusion of the Basque cinema by funding cinemas,festivals.

Hogei’ta: With the label of Hogei’ta actions TheBasque Cultural Institute wishes to accompanythe implementation of creative spaces of artisticexpression and exchanges that testify this formof appropriation and reinvention of the Basqueculture in the younger generation. For medium andlong term is also a reflection on the creation of

tools perennial transmission of heritage which theBasque Cultural Institute undertake with partners.Basque Cultural Institute support the creation of afilm distribution structure to improve the distributionof basque productions in french cinemas sinceyears.


Do you already have programs/tools/

agreements with other partners/ regions/countries to support thevisibility and exchange of your films?

EKE AQUITAINE


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Created in 1990It is subsidized by the State (Ministry of Culture), the Aquitaine Regional Council , the General Councilof Pyrenees - Atlantiques, the Commonwealth ofmunicipalities to support Basque culture whichcomprises 158 municipalities.

France 2012:Number of feature films produced: 296 (incl.copro) Total admissions: 204,3MCinemas: 2035Screens total: 5508 Ticket average price: 6,3€

FILM LITERACY (FRANCE):- Collège au cinema: the teachers give a special lessonabout a movie or the cinema in general, then the

children go to movie theater to watch a movie speciallyfor them. After they discuss in class about it.- École et cinema: same as Collège au cinema but foryoung children during the beginning of their scholarship.- Lycée et cinema : same as college and école andcinema but for last 3 years in general educationprogram.- Passeur d’images: a discovery of the movies for thechildren after the school in some areas that don’t haveenough material to propose movies in theater (projectionin/out movie theaters, conference, preferential tariffs,

formations…)

- Etxepare- Eusko Jaurlaritza Gobierno Vasco- CNC- Europa Creativa- ECLA - Etxepare- Eusko Jaurlaritza Gobierno Vasco- CNC- Europa Creativa

- ECLA

Create an European digital platform for the circulationand information concerning movies in smaller languages.Create an adequate offer for Basque cinema by a digitalplatform.




exhibitors/distributors, school

cinema circuit, subsidies for

subtitles, etc.)


As for the proposal promotedby the basque government/ basque audiovisual fund toset up a forum and a circuitof spaces and contacts tosupport placing films andprofessionals in smallerlanguages or european

countries, what are yourspecific proposals?


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EDITH SEPP CEO

[email protected]

Data on your region (General data)2014 data:Population: 1,315,819GDP per capita 2013: 14.218Official languages: Estonian

Distribute the national film production budget. Divided inthree departments: production, marketing and heritage

First and foremost, to remain approachable to all thefilmmakers, make sure that Estonian film is and will be thepride of Estonian culture and last but not least -to evolve with time and make Estonian film more visibleand competitive on the international arena.

SUPPORT: script, development, production, distribution,transmedia, marketing, exhibition, film heritage, Film-related academic research work, Vocational training andfilm education activities, miscellaneous activities related tothe promotion of film culture development TYPE OF FILMS: feature, animation, documentaries, highend mini TV series

Creative Estonia aims to bring together differentstakeholders and facilitate contact between creativeprofessionals and businesses, policymakers, students andbusinesses from other sectors.

In 2018, for the 100th anniversary of the Republic ofEstonia, 5 films will be produced and internationallypremiered, which were picked from 152 contestants duringthe idea contest held as part of the program “Republic ofEstonia 100”. The total budget for the initiative is around10 MEUR.The scheme also includes support for featurelength and short documentaries and high-end TV-drama.

Two regional funds: Viru Film Foundation and Tartu Film Fund– a lm foundation

created as a joint project of local authorities. The purpose ofthe funds is to promote the creation of professional audio-

visual works in the region, draw investments, and promotelocal regions in Estonia and abroad.



ESTONIAN FILM INSTITUTE

filmi.ee


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Annual state support for film: 7.3 MEUREFI annual budget: 5.4 MEURGross box office: 12.754.114Number of admissions: 2.600.077€Market share of European films: 20.35%Market share for Estonian films 4,73 %

Average t icket price: 4,9€21 domestic cinema premieres, including featurelength documentaries and co-productionsDomestic film produced: 6Screens: 78. Digital screens: 36

Yes. EFI supports TV co-productions,subsidies for distributors, film school.

- Creative Europe MEDIA desk - Baltic Film and Media school- Estonian Filmmakers Union- Black Nights Film Festival

More cooperation needed to create the trustneeded for smooth partnerships.

To bring professionals together. Create a setof physical meetings and mingling events withpurpose, and join FNE networks, if possible

General data / information onthe audiovisual sector in yoursphere of influence, 2014

Do you think that you havetools/programs that cansupport the goals of ourworking groups?

(e.g: public tv with coproduction,VOD platforms, subsidies for



subtitles, etc.)

Cooperation/collaboration/ participation frameworks ineuropean and internationalnetworks, festivals, otherpartners, european projects,

etc.





contact with your Creative EuropeDesk, etc.)

As for the proposal promotedby the basque government/ basque audiovisual fund toset up a forum and a circuitof spaces and contacts tosupport placing films andprofessionals in smaller

languages or europeancountries, what are yourspecific proposals?


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INGE TENVIK

[email protected]

Data on your region (General data)NorwayPopulation: 5 Mio.GDP/head: $80,749Official languages: Norwegian,Sami, Kven

Established in 2001. Administers both public

funds and private branch (Filmlandet Invest A/S) Counties of Hedmark and OplandEvery year generates fundings for 10-15shorts and documentaries and 2-4 featurefilms.

FUNDS: development and production forFeature films, TV-drama, documentaries andshort film

In principle Film3 invests in projectsthat generate 200% of the investmentin local spending, but exceptions areoccasionally made. The delegate produceror a considerably prominent producer of aproject must be centered in a staffed localoffice during the production period. 300%region spend for production companies notrepresented in the region.


FILM3


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BUDGET: 800.000 (2013 estimate)

Norway- 11.1M cinema admissions- 2.7M to Norwegian films- 57M NOK export of Norwegian films (2012)- Average ticket price (2012): 11.99€- Number of feature films produced: 35- Number of documentaries produced: 4- Number of co-productions min./maj. 3min./5 maj.- National Market Share: 24,5 %

- Screens total: 422

PARTNERS: Eastern Norway Film Center, FilmCommission Norway, The Norwegian FilmInstitute

General data / information onthe audiovisual sector in your

sphere of influence



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HANNAH THOMAS

[email protected] of Creative Sector Development

Data on your region (General data)Population: 3,074,067

(Stats Wales 2012)GDP/head: £ 16,893Official languages: Welsh (19%),

English (99%)

Elaborate plans to support and develop thecultural sector in the Basque Country.

FUNDS: scripts, development, production(short films, animation, feature, documentaries),promotion, dubbing/subtitling, support forexhibitors/cinema theatres, festivals,

TYPE: feature films, short films, documentaries,animation, cross media/ new platforms.

Magnifier approach: encourage increasedcross-sector working, extend the reach ofprojects and develop value that is often

under-developed. The approach encouragesshared and accelerated learning – we arelooking at trialing this approach internationally.BUDGET 2015: 3.500.000€



FFILM CYMRU WALES


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Ffilm Cymru Wales will contribute up to 75% of thetotal development costs of a project (or up to 100% onthe basis of in kind contributions being made by theapplicant representing 25%)

Production: Ffilm Cymru Wales may award up to a

maximum of £200,000 and a further £100,000 perproject via Magnifier.

2013/2014£200.000 spent in Welsh talent and their projects19 projects funded£100.000 given to Welsh independent cinemas to helpthem reach more peopleSupport to six films festivals across walesSpecial events fund, £10.000 available to respond toopportunities such us pop-up film events.

6 new flat grants for small venues in underserved areas

MEDIA Antenna WalesBFI NETWORK( Creative England, CreativeScotland and Northern Ireland screen and FilmLondon)

More opportunities to cooperate with otherorganisations. More conversations with salesagents/distributors about minority language filmpick up. Research demonstrating interest in minoritylanguage film.

We would like to see cultural exchanges wherebyWelsh filmmakers could spend time with otherminority language filmmakers and offer the samein return. We would be interested in working onsome commissioned research to help with the aimof promoting minority language film.








Desk, etc.)




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MARKUS Ö[email protected]

Data on your region (General data) :%5.5 Swedish speakers in Finland(289.675) (data 2005)Official Languages: Finish, Swedish

FOLKTINGET


Do you already have programs/tools/ agreements with other partners/regions/ countries to support the visibility and exchangeof your films?

General data / information on the audiovisualsector in your sphere of influence

As for the proposal promoted by the basquegovernment/basque audiovisual fund to set upa forum and a circuit of spaces and contactsto support placing films and professionals insmaller languages or european countries, whatare your specific proposals?

Safeguard the Swedish language and the interests ofthe Swedish-speaking population in Finland.

Folktinget publishes and distributes brochures onlinguistic rights and disseminates information onSwedish culture in Finland. In addition, the Swedish

Assembly regularly compiles information andstatistical reports on the Swedish-speaking Finns,and promotes positive attitudes towards bilingualismthrough campaigns and events.

Taike: It is a special ized service and an agency of the

promotion of the arts. Grants to professional artistsand grants for communities in the field of art - a totalof 32 million euros a year.

FINLAND (2012):Cinema Admissions: 7,3M Admissions per capita: 1.34Domestic first releases: 34

Cinema screens: 294 Average ticket price: 9.8€Market share: 28%

- Setting up a network to facilitate the exchange of

ideas with other minority film makers- Increased cooperation among


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Swedish-language broadcasts on Finnish radio andtelevision.

Travel Support for international promotion (Finnishfilm foundation): Finnish film producers or filmmakerscan apply for support to attend festivals or otherinternational events where their work is exhibited.

The event organizer is expected to cover theaccommodation costs of the invited party. The supportis paid against a submitted support report after it hasbeen awarded.

Film Import Support (Finnish Film Foundation) providesaid for the importation of films intended for cinemarelease and regular film festivals’ international programpurchases. The goal of programming support is topromote importation, distribution, marketing, and thescreening of high-quality, versatile films, representinga wide variety of film genres and cultures. Professional

distributors and film festivals are eligible to apply.

- Full member of the European Network to PromoteLinguistic Diversity,NPLD and its Think Tank. Within theNPLD Folktinget is Lead Partner in an EU-project during2013-15 to create a Roadmap on language planning ona European level.

- Folktinget is also associated member in the Federal

Union of European Nationalities, FUEN that gathersapprox. 90 national minorities in 32 countries.

- Finnish-language and culture organizations in Sweden(Sweden-Finns).

Folktinget has discussed the topic of the meeting in SanSebastian with the Finnish Broadcasting Company, andtheir cooperation include:

- EBU cooperation

- Prix Italia

- Prix Europa

- Nordvision – cooperation and co-producing among theNordic public service companies

- Exchange opportunities with other minority film makers- Access to other European TV and web platforms- More visibility in Europe- Learning and inspiration from other minority groupsculture and media- Public Broadcasting Companies



exhibitors/distributors, schoolcinema circuit, subsidies for

subtitles, etc.)





films, mobility of professionals,contact with your Creative Europe

Desk, etc.)


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ALESSANDRO [email protected]

Population: 1,227M (Jan 2015)GDP/head 29.200Official Languages: Italian, Friulian (around300,000 speakers)

FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIAAUDIOVISUAL FUND


General data / information on the audiovisualsector in your sphere of influence

Support the development of local film companies andpromote the regional audiovisual works in nationaland international markets.

FUNDS: Training, Development (feature films:10.000-30.000€, short films 2.000-5.000€,

documentary 2.000-20.000€, Animation 2.000-10.000€, Production

TYPE OF FILMS: feature films, TV-drama,documentaries, animation, short films, cross media/ new platforms.

The project must a lready have a confirmeddistribution at the moment of the application.

The applicant should be a regional productioncompany or a foreigner company with operational

headquarters in the region (and by the way, in casethe production company is not based in Friuli VeneziaGiulia the team involved in the development of theproject – director, author, etc – must be resident inFriuli Venezia Giulia)

BUDGET FVG Film Fund: aprox. 700.000 per year

Italy 2013:Number of admissions: 109.4 Admissions per capita: 1.8 Average ticket price: c.6€161 domestic cinema premieres (incl. copro)Cinemas:1063Screens: 3256


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- RE-ACT (Regional Audiovisual Cooperationand Training): it is a new initiative set up byCroatian Audiovisual Centre, Friuli VeneziaGiulia Audiovisual Fund and Slovenian Film

Centre in collaboration with TorinoFilmLabaimed in developing new audiovisual projectsand fostering international co-productions. It isaimed at filmmakers and producers who wishto foster closer ties within Croatia, Friuli VeneziaGiulia (IT) and Slovenia and consists of: RE-ACTWorkshop and RE-ACT Co-Development Fund.

- RE-ACT workshop is a brand newdevelopment workshop which will take placealongside the TorinoFilmLab internationalFrameWork programme.

- RE-ACT Co-Development Fund is a co-development fund that will support a maximumof 6 projects with a minimum financial supportof 10.000 Euros per project per year.

- When east meets west: is a co-productionevent organized by the FVG Audiovisual Fundin cooperation with the Trieste Film Festivaland EAVE, and the support of the MEDIAProgramme of the European Union and theCentral European Initiative. The main aim is togather every year film professionals comingfrom Eastern European countries, Italy andanother selected Western European region (adifferent one every year)

- Ties That Bind: Innovative programmedesigned to assist 10 producers from Asia andEurope with potential European-Asian co-production projects. The selected producerswork together on their feature projects in twoworkshops during the Udine Far East FilmFestival and in Asial, focusing on script analysis,financial and marketing strategies, legal aspects

as well as funding sources in both regions.

Do you already haveprograms/tools/agreementswith other partners/regions/ countries to support the

visibility and exchange ofyour films?


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TIES THAT BIND is targeted at 10 Asian &European producers with projects. We arenow opening the call in addition also to otherEuropean professionals interested in working

with Asia (sales agents, financiers, distributors,festival programmers, co-production marketrepresentatives) or producers without project. 5of them will be selected to be an active part ofthe group.

- The FVG Film Commission has developed theproject in collaboration with the SLOVENIANFILM FUND and the CROATIAN AUDIOVISUALCENTER, so to welcome every year oneproducer from each of the three neighbouringcountries and strength the collaboration withSouth-East European audiovisual professionals. At the end of September the city of Gorizia wil lhost both the third session of the internationalprogramme and the first edition of the Eurodoctrans-regional workshop, offering to a groupof 12 professionals (4 from Slovenia, 4 fromCroatia and 4 from Friuli Venezia Giulia), a full

access to this training course alongside theother European participants.

In 2007 we organized in Udine a meetingdedicated to audiovisual production in minoritylanguage and one of the priorities was to find away to have regions with less used languagesmore involved in co-production and co-distribution of these films. Unfortunately afterthis meeting we did not succeed in creating anetwork capable to share and face the commonchallenges. Apart from this experience we didnot have any other initiative related to minoritylanguage audiovisual production.

Do you think that you havetools/programs that cansupport the goals of ourworking groups?(e.g: public tv with coproduction,VOD platforms, subsidies for



subtitles, etc.)


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FVG Film commission

Trieste Film Festival

CEI –Central Europe Initiative

Antenna Media Torino

EAVE Europe

MEDIA Creative Europe

I think that we should identify if smallerlanguages means to have similarities betweenour different territories and once we define themit might be easier to propose a possible action

plan. The similarities might be in the storytelling or inthe film producing schemes or in the audience. A broad research to know each other bettercould be a good starting point.

Cooperation/collaboration/ participation frameworks ineuropean and internationalnetworks, festivals, otherpartners, european projects,

etc.

As for the proposal promotedby the Basque Government/ Basque Audiovisual Fund toset up a Forum and a circuit

of spaces and contacts tosupport placing films andprofessionals in smallerlanguages or Europeancountries, What are yourspecific proposals?


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LAUFEY GUDJÓNSDÓTTIR

[email protected]

Data on your region (General data):Population 0.33 millionGDP: 13,756M (2014)GDP/head: 41800 (2014)Official language: Icelandic

Icelandic Film Centre - Established in 2003, first Film Fundest. 1979- Financial support for the production and co-production- Promote Icelandic films abroad- Arrange Icelandic films weeks and retrospectives aroundthe world.- Support film festivals in Iceland and arrange film weeks,seminars and other events.

- Promote the program that allows 20% tax reimbursementsfor film and TV production costs.

FUNDS: Script, development, production, post-production,promotion

TYPE OF FILMS: feature films, documentaries, short filmsand TV fiction

- Co-production agreement with Canada andbi-lateral co-production agreements with Britain and France.Member of Nordic Film and TV Fund, Eurimages, CreativeEurope, European Film Promotion, Scandinavian Films,

- Promote Iceland/Film-in-Iceland

ANNUAL BUDGET: €4.3m (for 2014, changes annually)Number of feature films, including minority co-productionsand documentaries 15 Admissions 1.34 millionNational market share 11.0%Cinemas: 15Screens total 40 Total f ilms released: 161Local films released: 7 Average t icket price: €8 Total assistance: 4,1M Assistant per inhabitant: 1,9 (2013)Number of released films: 623


Do you already have programs/tools/ agreements with other partners/regions/ countries to support the visibility and

exchange of your films?

General data / information on theaudiovisual sector in your sphereof influence

ICELANDIC FILM CENTRE


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Cluster of filmmakers in Iceland,

Public TV, Art House Cinema, Film Festival, SchoolCinema. All to be further explored and confirmed.

Creative Europe Program of the European Union, ofEurimages, the European fund of the council of Europebased on the European Convention, and the NordiskFilm & TV Fond. Iceland is also party to a co-productionagreement with Canada and bi-lateral co-productionagreements with Britain and France.

- Film in Iceland/Promote Iceland

- Reykjavik International Film Festival

- Stockfish European Film Festival in Reykjavik

- Reykjavik International Children’s Film Festival

- Nordisk Panorama

- Cinekid for Professionals

More visibility in theaters, VOD’s as well as positioningin new distribution platforms. Strengthen the ‘findability’of films in new distribution era.Increase mobility of professionals.

A formal network and working group.Make sure the ‘small’ languages are heard in Europeancollaboration, both funding and distribution A joint strategy to brand filmographies in otherlanguages and new distribution platforms.





subtitles, etc.)

Cooperation/collaboration/ participation frameworks ineuropean and internationalnetworks, festivals, other

partners, european projects,etc.






Desk, etc.)

As for the proposal promotedby the basque government/ basque audiovisual fund toset up a forum and a circuitof spaces and contacts tosupport placing films andprofessionals in smallerlanguages or europeancountries, what are yourspecific proposals?


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KATARZYNA WODECKA-STUBBS

[email protected]

Data on your region (General data):Population: 3,267,731 (2006)Official languages: Polish

Support film production that may contribute tothe tourist and economic promotion of the regionand the building of its positive image. The fundcan be also concerned as very strong argument inthe Krakow’s and Malopolska Region’s efforts towin national and foreign partners in the world ofcinematography

FUNDS: development, production, distribution/P&A,

training and scholarships TYPE: feature films, tv-drama, documentaries,animation, commercial productions, short forms.

Applicat ions once a year

The aim of the Contest is to support FilmProduction of Films intended for broadcast asprogramming material for television or the Internet,or through other media as agreed to by the co-producers.

Financial input: support of the Film Production

through the transfer of fundsMaterial input: support for Film Production throughthe direct assurance of services, goods, orintangible benefits, etc.


KRAKOW REGIONAL FILM FUND


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Polish-German Co-Development Fund: The Fundsupports feature and animated films and creativedocumentaries. Projects for which funding applications

are submitted must possess artistic quality anddemonstrate the potential for drawing Europeanaudiences and, at the very least, audiences in Polandand Germany.

FILM LITERACY INITIATIVES POLAND:

-Filmoteka Szkolna: the first nationwide film educationprogram run in Poland that each and every secondaryschool (age 12-19) can take part in. The project isbased on the box of 121 key Polish films that areaccessible free of charge to all middle and secondary

schools through the website. Filmoteka Szkolnaprovides web resources together with workshops forteachers and pupils to support study of Polish films inthe curriculum.

- Akademia Polskiego Filmu: the project provides arare chance to watch old and ambitious Polish featuresand such films are almost non-existent in commercialrepertoire of cinemas and are hardly ever broadcastedon television. Is based in weekly meetings.

Since 2008-Krakow and the Malospolska Region

BUDGET: 375.000 (estimate 2013)

Data-POLAND (2013):

Annual total admissions: 36.3M

Per inhabitant: 0.9

Cinemas/screens: 516/1259

Average ticket price 3,1€

Krakow Film Commission

Krakow Festival Office

Polish Film commission

Film Commission Poland

Polish Audiovisual Centre Foundation

Polish film Institute

European Film Commission Network

Do you already haveprograms/tools/agreements

with other partners/regions/ countries to support thevisibility and exchange ofyour films?




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DITA RIETUMA

[email protected]

Data on your region (General data)2014 data:Population: 1.988.400GDP per capita: 11.647Official Languages: Latvian

Facilitation of Latvian film and film culturedevelopment, accessibility of Latvian filmculture in Latvia, promotion of Latvian filmabroad, participation at international film events,international film funding bodies and policyorganizations.

FUND: Latvian co-financing fund, SupportProgramme for International Film Productions: CashRebate up to 25% TYPE OF FILMS: fiction, animat ion, documentar ies

Cooperation agreement with Baltic Film centers andinstitutes – National Film Centre of Latvia, EstonianFilm Institute, and Lithuanian Film Centre - is theplatform for cooperation, co-productions betweenBaltic countries, as well organizing differentprojects (workshops, film screenings etc.).

Film literacy initiatives:

The National Film Centre of Latvia in col laborationwith the National Centre for Education havedeveloped a new project entitled “Film in Schools/ Kino Skolās”, which aims to promote accessibility

and knowledge of Latvian films through acomprehensive academic learning process. “Filmin Schools” provides teachers with suggestedteaching methods, a textbook (112 pages), as wellas the opportunity to access Latvian films throughan online platform at www.filmas.lv


Do you already have programs/tools/

agreements with other partners/ regions/countries to support thevisibility and exchange of your films?

NATIONAL FILM CENTRE OF LATVIA


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Annual state support 2015: 5.361.790 €Gross box office: 10.177.331Market share of European films: 21.36% Average t icket price: 4,64domestic cinema premieres:51Domestic film produced: 7Screens:64 Digital screens: 44Domestic films screened: 109market share: 7.58

Two cash-rebate schemes: on national level -operated by NFC, and Riga Film Fund which offerspossibilities of cooperation in the film service as wellas slot for co-productions.

We do not have subsidies for distributors of Europeanfilms and subtitles yet. (Might be discussed andplanned in the future.)

Baltic Documentaries film forum (organized by NFC),Riga International Film Festival, Festival 2ANNAS,International Film Festival Baltijas pērle,

Opportunities to cooperate with other organisations with common goal on the basis of concrete strategy.

To define the goals and to sign the agreementbetween countries (with limited market and languagearea) - Film centers, Film institutes of these countries. This might be the starting point for creating thestrategy and finding financial resources





cinema circuit, subsidies forsubtitles, etc.)







Desk, etc.)




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TOR VADSETH

[email protected]

Data on your region (General data)Population:480.740Official languages:Norwegian, Sami, KyenGDP/head:$80,749

Independent regional center for short anddocumentary films.

Established in 1981.

FUNDS: Development, production, training andscholarships, young talents. TYPE: Documentaries, animation (if short),short films, cross media/new platforms (whenconnected to the one above)

Three deadlines per year, applicants who arenot registered in the Norwegian BusinessRegister will need a Norwegian co-producer(preferably in the region)

On national level, but not formal agreementson regional level. We have a close cooperationwith Filmpool Nord in Swedish Lapland.

We are able to enter co-productions(documentaries), and have a close co-operation with film festivals in our area.



Do you think that you have tools/

programs that can support the goalsof our working groups?(e.g: public tv with coproduction, VOD

platforms, subsidies for exhibi tors/distr ibutors,

school cinema circuit, subsidies for subtitles,

etc.)

NORDNORSK FILMSENTER


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BUDGET: 1.260.000€(2015) 1.300.000(estimate 2016)Number of productions (premieres) (2014):Shorts: 14Documentaries: 7 (3 international co-prod. minority)

Norway:11.8M cinema admissions(2013)2.7M to Norwegian films57M NOK export of Norwegian films (2012) Average ticket price (2013): 11.1€Number of feature films produced 35Number of documentaries produced 4National Market Share 24,5 %

-Norwegian film institute (The Film Instituterepresents Norway in the European co-productionfund EURIMAGES and in the European AudiovisualObservatory.)-The International Sámi Film Institute (operates inNorway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.)

We look for better opportunities to exchange films, bothfor public screenings and festivals.

The network in Cine-Regio is a good starting-point for

making a program.It is important that an initiative is concrete, and thatwe can launch a test project, i.e an exchange of filmsbetween festivals under a specific label.



Main needs regardingpositioning yourself in the

european and internationalsphere(e.g.: more opportunities to





Desk, etc.)

As for the proposal promoted

by the basque government/ basque audiovisual fund toset up a forum and a circuitof spaces and contacts tosupport placing films andprofessionals in smallerlanguages or europeancountries, what are yourspecific proposals?


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JOZKO RUTAR, Director

jozko. rutar@f ilm-center.si+386 (0) 1 234 3200

Data on your region (General data)Population:2.062M (Jan 2015)GDP/head:24,500$ (Jan 2015)Official languages:Slovene, Italian, Hungarian

Major cities:Ljubljana, Maribor, Celje, Kranj

The goal of the Slovenian Film Centre is toencourage creativity in the film and audiovisualfield in the Republic of Slovenia by creatingsuitable conditions for film, audiovisual andcinematographic activities.

Replacing Slovenian Film Fund (established in1994) since 2011.

FUNDS: production (film, audiovisualworks, first feature film, minority co-productions, production of film academies,project development, script development,film education, film festivals, professionalassociations, promotion of Slovenian filmsabroad.

International co-productions mostly incollaboration with producers from countriesfrom ex-Yugoslavia like Croatia, Serbia andBosnia and Herzegovina and neighboringcountries (Italy)

MOTOVILA, Centre for the promotion ofcooperation in the cultural and creative sectorsRE-ACT – co-development program withautonomus region Friuli Venezia Giulia in Italyand Croatia


Do you already have programs/tools/ agreements with other partners/ regions/countries to support the

visibility and exchange of your films?

SLOVENIAN FILM CENTRE


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Annual state support for films industry: 3,8M (2015)

2014:Box office 9.543.871€ Admissions: 1.929.161

Feature film production: 12Number of cinemas: 48Number of screens 106Digital screens 84 Av. Ticket price 4,9€Number of films released: 431Number of films first released: 221

About 20 Slovene films are sent annually to more than100 festivals.

Some yes- school cinema circuit, art cinemasnetwork

Organizer: “Festival of Slovenian Film”, Supportssome international film festivals held in SloveniaCreative Europe – MEDIA.- Slovenian Film Commission- EURIMAGES- EFP- EFADs- EFARN

Cash rebateLegal obligations on broadcasters, VOD providers,cinema operators…






subtitles, etc.)







Desk, etc.)


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Mr. PADDY [email protected]

Data on your region (General data)

Population:Galway/Mayo/Roscommon:

445.356 Ireland: 4.776.882 (2015)Official languages:English, IrishGDP/head:31.500€ (2012)

The UNESCO City of Film Forum is an affi liation of themain organisations involved in the film and televisionsector in the West of Ireland and includes the twolocal authorities, two third level institutes, the IrishFilm Board, Broadcaster TG4, a Film Studio and all ofthe main production companies and related agenciesworking in this sector in Galway. It was this groupof organizations, chaired by Galway Film Centre,that successfully led the bid for Galway to become aUNESCO City of Film. The Forum is an umbrella groupof organisations so does not have a dedicated budget.However plans are underway to establish a newregional fund for the Galway, Mayo Roscommon area.

Irish Film Board: The Irish Film Board funds FeatureFilms and TV Drama many of which are co-productionswith other regions/countries.The Galway Film Fleadh: Showcasess new Irish andEuropean cinemaUNESCO: Galway is a member of the UNESCOCreative Cities network and has strong relationshipswith the other 4 Cities of Film – Bradford, Sydney, Sofiaand Busan.

- Galway Film Centre- Creative Europe Desk Galway- Irish Film Board- Údarás na Gaeltachta (Development organisationfor the Irish speaking regions)


Do you already have programs/tools/agreementswith other partners/regions/countries to supportthe visibility and exchange of your films?

Cooperation/collaboration/participationframeworks in european and internationalnetworks, festivals, other partners, europeanprojects, etc.

UNESCO CITY OF FILM FORUM


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The Galway region is the most active audiovisualregion in Ireland outside of the Dublin area. Manyof the production companies in the region servicethe Irish language Broadcaster TG4 but many alsowork internationally. There is a Film Studio in theregion with plans underway to establish another in

the near future. A Film Festival takes place every July with aninternational market the Galway Film Fair.

Audiovisual activity made a direct contribut ion of€72million to the economy of Galway in 2012.

The sector employed 610 people in county Galwayin 2012

IRELAND (2012):

Average ticket price: 7€

Cinemas: 70 // Screens: 465

Admissions: 15.4M

Section 481 TAX RELIEF: up to 32% of eligible Irishexpenditure

TG4: the Irish language television channel isopen to co-production and acquisiton.Galway Film Fleadh and its market Galway FilmFair – platform for Irish and European Films.

There is a need for Irish language filmmakers tofind new ways of financing their work and to reachinternational audiences. It is interesting to collaboratewith Filmmakers facing the same challenges as us –the dominance of major languages and geographicaland audience limitations.

We are at the very early stages of setting up a newRegional fund. However, we would be happy tocollaborate on co-production initiatives and exchangeof Programming in smaller languages through existingstructures such as our Film Festival and Broadcasterand other support structures.

General data / information on theaudiovisual sector in your sphereof influence

Do you think that you have tools/ programs that can support thegoals of our working groups?(e.g: public tv with coproduction,



cinema circuit, subsidies forsubtitles, etc.)

Main needs regarding positioningyourself in the european andinternational sphere(e.g.: more opportunities to





Desk, etc.)

As for the proposal promotedby the basque government/ basque audiovisual fund toset up a forum and a circuit ofspaces and contacts to supportplacing films and professionals insmaller languages or europeancountries, what are your specific

proposals?


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DANIEL WASER

[email protected]+41 43 960 35 35Managing Director

Data on your region (General data)Population: 1,446,100 (31.12.2014)GDP/head: 89’260Official Languages: German

Founded in 2004 (Canton of Zurich, City of Zurich,all other municipalities in the Canton and theassociation ‘Zürich für den Film’)

FUNDS: script writing, development, production,distribution, festivals, awards, digitalization-digitalcinema

TYPE OF FILMS: feature films, TV-drama,Documentaries (more than 60’), animation, shortfilms, transmedia/new platforms

Eligible to apply are directors and producers whichare resident in the canton of Zurich.

FILM LITERACY INITIATIVES The magic lantern: an international cinemaclub for children aged 6 to 12. It purpose

is to help young audiences to discover thepleasure of cinema at the cinema. Once amonth, club members are invited to attend anage appropriate, quality film in a real cinema.Exclusively for children but supervised bycompetent and responsible adults.



ZÜRCHER FILMSTIFTUNG


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BUDGET 2015: 10.000.000€2014Fiction: 83 applications, 43 promotions.Funding amounts 14’461’000 CHF (5’756’000 CHFpromotion )Documentary: 152 applications, 68 promotions.funding amounts 18’663’256 CHF (7’147’000 CHFpromotion)

Switzerland:Feature film produced: 24Documentaries:57Screens:536, digital: 493 Admissions: 15,539289 Average t icket price: 13€

- Zürich Film Office

- Zurich Film Festival- Film Festival Locarno- Solothurner Filmtage- Swiss Films- Cinéforom- BAK Sektion Film- Focal- First Pitch (Cooperation with MFG Baden-Württemberg)- Cineregio

Because Switzerland is temporary not a member ofCreative Europe, our main concern is the mobility ofprofessionals. We are looking for other possibilities ofcoproduction and development.

First step would be a “best practice” how to developprojects in smaller languages for a larger audience?Bigger countries have co-development-funds (e.g.France and Germany or France and Italy). Shouldwe establish a special “networking-platform”between Funds and creative professionals in smallerlanguages?


Cooperation/collaboration/

participation frameworks ineuropean and internationalnetworks, festivals, otherpartners, european projects,etc.






Desk, etc.)

As for the proposal promotedby the basque government/ basque audiovisual fund toset up a forum and a circuitof spaces and contacts tosupport placing films andprofessionals in smallerlanguages or europeancountries, what are yourspecific proposals?


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