Production of Feature and Long Animated Film Fund

The Feature Film and Long Animation Film Production scheme focuses on the creative team, consisting of a producer, director and screenwriter.

Funding Information

• The following contributions can be requested for the production of feature films and long animated films:
  • A production contribution of up to €950,000 for a film with a production budget of up to €2 million
  • A realization contribution of up to €1,200,000 for a film with a production budget of €2 million or more
  • The Fund’s contribution must not displace investments from the market, but must add value and contribute to agreements made within the framework of fair remuneration and sound preparation.
• The above basic contributions include the earmarked amounts:
  • €15,000 for sales deliveries, audio description and subtitling
  • €50,000 as a contribution to the producer’s marketing and promotion costs during the realisation phase.
• The Fund makes an additional contribution to the sustainability of production:
  • A contribution towards the costs of the eco-manager up to an amount of €3,000

What is it?

• The Realization Feature Film and Long Animation Film scheme focuses on supporting high-quality majority Dutch feature films and long animation films. With this scheme, the Fund wants to contribute to a varied and distinctive film offering for a diverse audience.
• They choose original and distinctive films with guts and idiosyncrasy, films that stimulate the imagination and tell relevant stories for the Dutch audience. They strive for the most varied (selectively supported) offer possible, with room for all narrative perspectives, categories, segments and genres, made by a balanced mix of experienced and novice makers.
• They select on content and cinematographic quality and a diverse, daring and relevant offer. The content and artistic quality of the previous work of the creative team is taken into account.
• They explicitly strive for a balanced public-private financing mix in the film projects they support. This means that the Film Fund contribution must be in proportion to the investments of other parties and the intended audience reach. The higher the requested fund contribution, the more important the financing of other parties and the ambitions to reach.

Who can apply?

• An application for this scheme can be submitted by an independent production company (a legal entity, not a sole proprietorship or general partnership) that has been established for at least two years in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a member state of the EU, EEA or Switzerland and that produces and exploits films and other audiovisual productions on a continuous basis.
• The production company is represented by a producer who, as majority producer, has been primarily responsible for the realization of at least one feature film or long animation film with a cinema release in the Netherlands. The producer who represents the production company is not the same person as the director or screenwriter of the film.

Conditions

• The film plans must also meet the following conditions:
  • The independence of the producer as a cultural entrepreneur is guaranteed;
  • There is a need for subsidy. The fund contribution is of decisive importance for the feasibility of the financing;
  • The financing plan for a film production provides a realistic overview of (potential) financiers. Written evidence or statements must be added for previously promised contributions. The extent to which concrete commitments have already been made by third parties – for example film distributors or operators – is included in the assessment;
  • The application includes a vision of the creative team for the release;
  • The script is ready for production;
  • A director is attached to the project. In addition, a director’s vision has been added to the film plan, in which the contours of the intended audiovisual form and style are convincingly outlined.

For more information, visit Netherlands Film Fund.