Zürcher Filmstiftung
The Zürcher Filmstiftung was founded in November 2004 – after a convincing «Yes for the cinema» by a votation of the Zurich people. Our founder-members are the Canton of Zurich, the City of Zurich, all other municipalities in the Canton and the association «Zürich für den Film».
This Filmstiftung is the first one in Switzerland and we are committed to support writers, directors, producers and distributors. Our target is to support film business on a high professional level in Zurich. With an annual business volume of about 6 million euros we finance projects and we support filmmakers in all their needs.
Our focus is in assisting script development, production and distribution of cinema films – fiction, documentaries, shorts, animations and experimentals.
We also support projects in co-production with foreign partners, and – only in special cases – TV movies.
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Cine-Regio representative - Daniel Waser
Daniel Waser is the managing director of Zürcher Filmstiftung since April 2005. After a five-year period as journalist for a daily newspaper, Daniel Waser graduated in law at the University of Berne in 1992 and worked for several years at the criminal court. Later on he owned a small cinema and he was a general secretary of the Swiss Journalist Federation.
After a postgraduate study in project management Daniel Waser was elected as the first managing director of the new Filmstiftung in December.
Contact
Zürcher Filmstiftung
Neugasse 10
8005 Zürich
Switzerland
Tel: +41 43 960 35 35
Fax:+41 43 960 35 39
info@filmstiftung.ch
www.filmstiftung.ch