WCF Europe Funding Programme

As for decades some European regions have been playing the leading role in international co-productions with non-European regions/countries, including regions that lack a constructive and consistent film industry.

The funding programme aims to reach a further democratisation of the international co-production landscape by encouraging more countries to get involved in co-productions with WCF regions/countries. This is why special consideration will be given to funding projects by production companies from regions with the lowest production capacity inside the eligible WCF Europe regions/countries and/or to European regions/countries who are not yet fully involved in international co-productions.

WCF Europe will support the realisation of films (feature-length fiction films and creative documentaries) from WCF Europe eligible regions and countries. The premises of the selection are the artistic quality and the content of the projects as well as their feasibility.

Funding Information

• Maximum funding: 60,000 Euros per project and 40,000 Euros for post-production funding
• The total production costs of the supported projects should range between 200,000 Euros and 1,400,000 Euros.

Eligibility Criteria

• The programme WCF Europe is aimed for production and extends WCF support to European companies from the member states of the Creative Europe media sub-programme.
• In addition to the WCF Classic regions/countries, projects from Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine are also eligible for funding under the WCF Europe programme if they submit projects for production funding in cooperation with a company from the MEDIA member countries, and vice versa. The production shares of the countries participating in the MEDIA sub-programme must amount to at least 20 percent of the total financing. Under no circumstances, however, may they exceed 70 percent.
• The European partner is the administrative recipient of the WCF Europe funding.

For more information, visit World Cinema Fund.