Filmfonds-Wien
Objectives
The objectives of the Vienna Film Fund are strengthening and consolidating Vienna as a city of film and audiovisual media in international media and also saving the cultural diversity of Europe. Therefore it is essential for the Vienna Film Fund to help subsidize culture, economy and employment in the film industry of Vienna, Austria and all of Europe. It is also an important assignment of the fund to promote the Austrian Film.
Budget and kinds of subsidizing
The council of the city of Vienna finances the Vienna Film Fund budget of approximately 11,5 million euros per year. We give subsidies to film-makers in different phases of production: project-development (including script-writing), production, distribution and taking part in film festivals.
Business and cultural merits
A jury, that forms an opinion about the different subsidy-applications, makes funding decisions. Cultural, economic and artistic merits of the project are important. The European, and especially the Viennese or Austrian culture should attract interest in movie making. While producing a movie you have to spend at least 100% of the financial contribution of the Vienna Film Fund for film production facilities and skills existing in Vienna, employing local creative staff and filmmakers and/or having an onscreen-promotion of the city as a location. That is the so-called “Vienna Effect”, a film business-effect; you must prove before getting a subsidy.
Platform for dialogue
The Vienna Film Fund wants to have a hand in improving the qualification of filmmakers and their business. Therefore the fund offers different kinds of events and conferences to communicate. The fund was partner of the Sources2 and EAVE MEDIA programmes, which relate to the professional qualifications of filmmakers, work toward improving the training available in the audiovisual sector in Austria (e.g. training congress, Cined@ys) and is a joint organizer of meetings of producers (attended by representatives of Europe’s film sector, e.g. from France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Italy and Slovenia).
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Cine-Regio representative - Mrs. Gerlinde Seitner
Gerlinde Seitner, born 1969, has a degree from the Vienna University of Economics and Business as well as an interpreting degree for French and English from the University of Vienna. She is a CEMS – Community of European Management Schools - graduate and studied at HEC Paris. From 1997 she was in charge of MEDIA Desk Austria and the management of the MEDIA Programme of the EU in Austria. Since 2004 she was Deputy to the Director of the Austrian Film Institute in charge among others of the coordination of the EFAD working group on state aids. From 2005 to 2011 she was a member of theAdvisory Board of the Austrian Television Fund. In 2010 she was also a member of the Advisory Board of Film Location Austria (FISA). She is currently the managing director of the Vienna Film Fund.
Contact
Vienna Film Fund
Stiftgasse 6
1070 Vienna
Austria
Tel: +43 1 526 50 88
Fax:+43 1 526 50 88 20
office@filmfonds-wien.at
www.filmfonds-wien.at