FILM FUNDS
We bring you a selection of opportunities that exist in the film sectors of EU countries and India. As we play the role of a facilitator and do not claim to create these opportunities, we request the applicants to get in touch with the source of origin directly and verify the details.
UK Film Funding
India-Germany Co-production Agreement
The agreement signed in February 2007 means that German and Indian co-producers will enjoy all of the privileges available to the film industries in their respective countries. The agreement is subject to both sides contributing between 20% and 80% of the total cost of the film. Financial contributions should be accompanied by corresponding creative, artistic and technical inputs >>>
Film-makers' Festival Fund (FFF) London
Film London's Film-makers' Festival Fund (FFF) aims to support the development of individual film-makers' and moving image artists' careers, by providing travel grants for attendance at a small number of overseas festivals where films have been selected and are in competition.
In a limited number of festivals where films are in competition, contributions are also available towards costs of striking a first film print or production of digital masters where required by the festival for screening.
Who can apply?
* Applicants must live in the Film London region - a utilities bill will need to be provided as proof of address
* Applicants must be either the director or producer of the film
* Directors or producers of the film that is in competition in the list of qualifying festivals.
Deadline for application will take place on a monthly basis, as follows: 19 October 2007, 16 November 2007, 14 December 2007, 11 January 2008 and 15 February 2008. http://www.filmlondon.org.uk/
LAFVA 2008
Deadline 22 November 2007
This fund is now open for applications. Offering awards up to a maximum of £20,000 for the production of new work.
London Artists' Film and Video Awards (LAFVA) is an open submission awards scheme
for artists' living and working in the London region.
Awards are available to artists' working in the context of contemporary fine
art moving image practice. Submitted projects can be any format, length and genre
whether single or multi screen and produced for exhibition in galleries, festivals,
specialist venues or cinemas.
Now in its eighth year, LAFVA is one of the largest publicly funded award programmes
for artists in the UK.
The deadline for applications to this year's LAFVA award is 5pm on Thursday 22
November 2007.
If you have any questions relating to the LAFVA scheme contact the FLAMIN team
on flamin@filmlondon.org.uk or 020 7613 7694.
IDFA
22 Nov- 2 Dec 2007
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the largest documentary festival in the world. The details for 2007 are going to be announced. Keep visiting these pages for the latest.
Every year since 1988, more than 250 international documentaries are screened for a huge number of film lovers and professionals. The festival is an exciting meeting place for directors, producers, buyers, financiers and audiences alike.
Aside from the festival, IDFA consists of three other components: the Jan Vrijman Fund, the FORUM and Docs for Sale. All of these were established in order to improve the international climate for creative documentaries. The Jan Vrijman Fund offers support to documentary projects and festivals in developing countries, the FORUM is Europe's biggest co-financing market for international documentary productions, and Docs for Sale is an international documentary market where buyers, sales agents and distributors can see a selection from the best creative documentaries of the past year.
The FORUM
15th edition: 26-28 November 2007
The FORUM is Europe's largest gathering of filmmakers, television commissioning editors and independent documentary producers. Founded in 1993, it became the first market for the international co-financing of documentaries. Since then, the FORUM has expanded and remained a unique opportunity to find financing: more than 90% of all submitted projects end up getting made.
New FORUM venue
The 15th edition of the FORUM will take place in a new venue: the Compagnie Theatre (Kloveniersburgwal 50, 1012 CX Amsterdam), which is situated close to the other new IDFA and Docs for Sale venues.
Docs for Sale
12th edition: 23 November-1 December
Docs for Sale is one of the world's most important markets for creative documentaries. For over 11 years, Docs for Sale has been attracting sales agents, TV stations, distributors, and festival programmers. It runs parallel to IDFA and the FORUM and stimulates the sales and distribution of new and exciting creative documentaries all over the world. Click for further details: http://www.idfa.nl/index.asp
World Cinema Fund
At the World Cinema Fund Day,
which took place on February 14, 2007 during the 57th Berlinale, the WCF announced it was expanding the regions eligible to
receive support. Besides projects from Latin America, the Middle East, Central
Asia and Africa, filmmakers from Southeast Asia and the Caucasus will be
eligible for funding support starting in summer 2007.
The purpose of the World Cinema Fund (WCF) is to support films from regions whose film cultures are endangered by political and or economic crises. The World Cinema Fund is intended to help provide a higher profile and increased accessibility for these films in Germany and to enable their presentation to an international audience. Deadlines are: 30th October/ 20th December 2007.
The amount of funding should normally not exceed 50% of the total production costs. The maximum amount of funding per project is : 100,000. Further details can be found at www.berlinale.de
The Jan Vrijman Fund
The Jan Vrijman Fund was founded in 1998 in honor of Jan Vrijman, inspirator of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. This fund is also part of IDFA activities.
The Jan Vrijman Fund provides financial means for documentary projects from developing countries. Projects can be applied for research and script development, production and post-production. In addition, other activities for the promotion of the production and distribution of documentaries, such as the organisation of workshops, documentary film festivals, and alternative plans for distribution of documentaries, are eligible for support.
If you have further questions you can contact the fund at: janvrijmanfund@idfa.nl.