News | Grants

Country

• Germany

Institution

• Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Würtemberg GmbH

Link

• http://http//www.mfg.de/

Range

• Regional

Limit date

• 01/03/2010

Type

• Feature Film

• (Co-)Producer, production companies

• A feature film awarded support must have a theatrical window of at least six months in length following its theatrical premiere. As a rule, the producer is obliged to repay the amount awarded with 50% of his/her receipts from the supported film. If other German funding institutions are involved in the financing of the film, proportional repayment can accordingly be agreed to. The obligation to repay the amount awarded from the producer’s share of receipts expires eight years at the latest following the film’s theatrical release. The repaid sum shall be made available to the producer as automatic funding towards the development or production of a new project.. Should the producer not meet his/her contractual obligations or should the automatic funding not be approved, the funds revert to the MFG. These funds are available to the producer for a maximum of three years following full repayment of the loan.

• The maximum percentage-rate of production costs which may be covered by funding from the Filmboard is between 50% and 70%, depending on the level of the total budget

• It´s a support for the production of larger budget feature films.