News | Grants

Country

• Germany

Institution

• Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Würtemberg GmbH

Link

• http://www.mdm-online.de/

Range

• Regional

Limit date

• 01/03/2010

Type

• Animation
  Children's programmes
  Documentary
  Feature Film
  First Feature Film or Graduation Film
  Multimedia project
  TV Fiction

• (Co-)Producer, production companies

• The payment requires proof of the overall budget of the project and the submission of binding contracts on the distribution. The costs have to be calculated accordingly. The payment of the loan takes place in instalments according to the proven progress of the production. - The applicant has to contribute to his film project with an appropriate equity ratio that is independent from funding loans. With international co-productions, the production costs of the German producer are the basis for the calculation of the equity ratio. This applies respectively to films that are produced in collaboration with a broadcasting company. - The applicant is obliged to pay off the loan from the profits he is entitled to, yielded from the funded film. - The applicant is obliged to provide a digital copy or a film copy of the funded production for the archives of the MDM as well as twelve VHS copies/data media and PR material for publication (including at least ten different pictures) at his own cost.

• The aim of the funding is the development, maintenance and strengthening of the film, television as well as media culture and economy in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The funding intends to contribute to the strengthening of the audio-visual sector in Germany and Europe. With that it will improve and ensure the economic power in the region of these three states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.