Applications open for Cinemascope Film Fund

Four Dutch quality films can be supported annually. Priority is given to original film plans with convincing cultural added value. The scheme is also expressly open to children’s and youth films. Film plans are assessed and weighed against each other on the basis of their own formulated ambitions.

Funding Information

• Eligible films that convince nationally and/or internationally in terms of ambition and production value and reach their audience and have a minimum production budget of €4 million:
  • Maximum realization contribution €1,800,000 per film, taking into account the frameworks for state aid.
• The contribution includes the earmarked amounts for sales deliveries for international sales, audio description and subtitling to make the film accessible to visually and hearing impaired people via various platforms and the costs for marketing and promotion incurred by the producer in the realization phase (a total of maximum of €65,000 of which €50,000 for marketing).
  • The Fund makes an additional contribution to making production more sustainable: a contribution to the costs of the eco-manager up to an amount of €3,000.

Who is eligible?

• The applicant is an independent production company (a legal entity, i.e. not a sole proprietorship or general partnership) that has been established in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a member state of the EU, EEA or Switzerland for at least two years and that produces and exploits films and other audiovisual productions on a continuous basis.
• The production company is represented by a producer with demonstrable knowledge and experience who has been primarily responsible for realizing at least one feature film with a cinema release in the Netherlands. The producer is not the same person as the director or screenwriter of the film.
• The director has at least one feature film released in Dutch cinema to his/her name.

Conditions

The film plans must meet the following conditions:

• Upon request
  • The film is an original story with convincing cultural added value with a solid cinema release in the Netherlands, which means at least 12 to 16 weeks. Remakes or sequels are not eligible;
  • The independence of the producer as a cultural entrepreneur is guaranteed;
  • The production budget is at least €4 million;
  • Contributions in relation to the different forms of exploitation must be specified separately in the financing.

For more information, visit Netherlands Film Fund.