Main Theme for Czech Film Fund in 2018: Coproductions

15 January 2018

Film Industry

Main Theme for Czech Film Fund in 2018: Coproductions

Film Industry

Main Theme for Czech Film Fund in 2018: Coproductions

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One of the CFF’s key long-term goals is to support more international coproductions, both with majority Czech participation and as minority coproductions. Here, the chairman of the Czech Film Fund’s council, Přemysl Martinek, shares the Fund’s plans for 2018.

 

Article from Czech Film Magazine / Spring 2018

Each year, the Czech film industry produces roughly three dozen feature-length fiction films and some 20 documentaries. Very few of them, however, reach the international market. Now, along with opportunities for automatic support through incentives, the Czech Film Fund aims to make Czech projects more attractive and to enable Czech producers to finance more international coproductions reciprocally.

For the third consecutive year now, the CFF will have at its disposal a budget of nearly €50 million. Of that, roughly €31 million will go toward incentives and €1.5 million toward the funding of minority coproductions (with average support for fiction projects around €150,000). This year will also see the main production schemes opened to a wider spectrum of projects. Previously, only projects that had majority financing from the Czech Republic could apply.

However, this year we will also consider projects with at least 40 percent Czech participation on bilateral coproductions, or 30 percent on coproductions with three or more countries involved, thus opening support to projects that lack a Czech majority share, yet still involve significant contribution from a Czech producer. Around €5 million will be earmarked for these projects.

The CFF council will continue to support the participation of Czech films and minority coproductions in international festivals. Grant requests will still have to be submitted by the Czech producer, though the council expects other coproducers and the sales agent to share the costs. Funding is available for up to €15,000 for the most prestigious international film festivals.

Funding for training projects is another area that will considerably strengthen relationships between the Czech and other national film industries. One project long in the works is the Script Consulting incubator, which will support the training of script editors and the development of screenplays for feature-length films.

Among the most prestigious projects in the documentary film arena are Ex Oriente and dok.incubator, not to forget the increasingly successful Midpoint initiative, run by the FAMU film academy in Prague. This is in line with the Czech Film Fund’s mission of systematic support for the education of film industry professionals, with a special emphasis on programs in which Czech films and Czech professionals face international competition.

LATEST NEWS

Minority Coproduction supported by Czech Film Fund The Czech Film Fund has selected 10 film projects from 31 applications to receive minority coproduction funding. The total allocation was €770,000.

SUPPORTED PROJECTS:
Servants (CZ producer: Negativ, director: Ivan Ostrochovský)
Putin's Witnesses (CZ producer: Hypermarket Film, director: Vitalij Mansky)
In Love and War (CZ producer: Film United, director: Kasper Torsting)
The Sign Painter (CZ producer: 8Head Production, director: Viesturs Kairišs)
The Impossible Voyage (CZ producer: Kabos Film and Media, director: Noro Držiak)
Wild Beasts (CZ producer: MAUR film, directors: Marta Prokopová, Michal Blaško)
Journey (CZ producer Animation People, director: Marek Jasaň)
Oroslan (CZ producer: i/o post, director: Matjaž Ivanišin)
Backstage (CZ producer: Bontonfilm, director: Andrea Sedláčková)
Three (CZ production: Bio Illusion, director: Wojciejch Smarzowsky).

Czech Feature Films supported by Czech Film Fund

The Czech Film Fund has allocated a total of €2,357,000 for the production of 8 feature-length films in November 2017. The largest grant, €482,000, went to the coming-of-age story Kryštof, by director Zdeněk Jiráský. The other projects supported were National Street (Štěpán Altrichter), Jan Palach (Robert Sedláček), Loaded Eels (Vladimír Michálek); Restore Point (Robert Hloz) and Trash on Mars (Benjamin Tuček).

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