The Czech Film Center is part of the Czech Film Fund
Co-produce with the Czech Republic
Still from minority co-production The Editorial Office by Roman Bondarchuk (Berlin IFF 2024)
Co-produce with the Czech Republic
Still from minority co-production The Editorial Office by Roman Bondarchuk (Berlin IFF 2024)
The Czech Film Fund supports all stages of film production, as well as promotion, distribution and other film-related areas. The Fund also administers production incentives for audiovisual projects made in the Czech Republic.
Minority co-productions
- Annual budget: EUR 1,6 million (CZK 40 million)
- Type of support: Selective scheme
- Two application deadlines per year (next call announced in March 2024)
What we support:
- Theatrical fiction, animated and documentary films
- Features and shorts
- Films at least partially produced in the Czech Republic using Czech goods and services
- Films involving a Czech producer as a supplier of Czech creative elements or as a minority co-producer (contributing the required minority funds)
Aspects that the Fund Council takes into consideration when evaluating the projects:
- Overall artistic quality of the film and its international appeal
- Czech artistic and technical participation
- Czech elements or use of Czech locations and settings
- Existing or potential long-term cooperation between the producers
- Cinema distribution or broadcasting in the Czech Republic
Conditions of support:
- 50% of the grant must be spent on Czech services, cast and crew (with exceptions for culturally ambitious projects)
- The Czech share must amount to at least 10% of production costs, including a possible Czech share from Eurimages, or 5% when based on European Convention on Cinematographic Co-Production
- The total amount of public funding for the entire project should not exceed 60% of the total budget (for European co-productions) or 50% in other cases (with exceptions for culturally ambitious projects)
- All funding is non-recoupable
- Payment in 2 instalments: 60% after having secured a substantial part of the financing, 40% after completion of shooting
How to apply
- Call announced in March and August 2024
- Application deadline 30 days from call announcement
- Funding results 3 months after application deadline
List of supported projects 2014-2024 (as of September, 2024)
Contacts
Markéta Šantrochová
Head of Czech Film Center
marketa@filmcenter.cz
+420 724 329 948
www.filmcenter.cz
Monika Bartošová
Fund Council Secretary
monika.bartosova@fondkinematografie.cz
+420 773 738 853
www.fondkinematografie.cz