Apply for RE-ACT Co-Development Funding scheme

Deadline: 1 November 2024

Applications are now open for RE-ACT Co-Development Funding scheme to promote closer creative collaboration between producers and filmmakers from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Friuli Venezia Giulia through training, networking and co-development of projects.

Funding Information

For the year 2024 the RE-ACT co-development funding has a total annual budget of 80.000 EUR. The financial envelope derives exclusively from the contributions of the member funds.
The RE-ACT Co-Development Funding scheme for the year 2024 will support a maximum of 8 projects with a minimum financial support of 10.000 Euros per project.

Eligibility Criteria

Financial support for co-development may only be awarded to European natural or legal persons governed by the legislation of the one of the Fund’s member states and/or regions, whose principal activity consists in producing cinematographic works, and whose origins are independent of public or private broadcasting organisations or telecom companies.
A company is considered eligible if it is majority owned and continues to be majority owned, either directly or indirectly by nationals of the member states/regions of the fund.
A production company is considered independent when less than 25% of its share capital is held by a single broadcaster or less than 50% where several broadcasters are involved.
In order to be eligible at least one member of the team (either the director or one of the producers attached to the project) should be working on a feature (fiction or documentary) or short animation for the first or second time.

Selection Criteria

The Programme Council will recommend selected projects to the approval of the General Assembly keeping in mind the objectives of the Initiative.
In doing so the Programme Council will carry out a comparative analysis of the applications submitted, upon the basis of the following selection criteria:
- Artistic Criteria
  - Quality of the script/level of development
  - Story and theme (originality of content; subject-matter preferably linking two territories of the Initiative)
  - Style (director’s intention, cinematic vision, genre, tone)
- Contribution of the creative team (including experience, track records):
  - Director and author(s)
  - Producers
- Production Criteria
  - Artistic co-operation
  - Circulation potential (festivals, distribution, audience)
  - Financing (consistency and level of confirmed development financing)