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 8 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 - Mr. Peter Zawrel
Peter Zawrel is the managing director of the Filmfonds Wien (Vienna Film Fund) since November 1999. He studied History of Arts, Philology and History at the University of Vienna.
After some years as an interdisciplinary free-lancer in several fields of sciences of history and arts in Austria and Italy, he entered the Cultural Departement of Lower Austria (1987), where he, among other things, built up a structured regional support for film, cinema and new media.
Since 1996 Peter Zawrel is a member of the board of the Film Archive Austria, and since 2002 he is a member of the board of the Austrian Film Museum.
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