Strasbourg, 17.03.2014 - At its
134th meeting held from
11 to 13 March 2014 in
Budapest, the Board of Management of the
Council of Europe΄s Eurimages Fund agreed to support
17 projects of
feature films,
one animation and
one documentary for a total amount of
5.367.000 Euros.
The Balkan supported films are:
€180,000
(Romania, France, Bulgaria)
Co-producers:
€157.000
(Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia)
Co-producers:
€90.000
La Novia - Paula Ortiz (Spain)
(Spain, Turkey)
Co-Producers:
Get In The Picture
Productions S.L.
€230.000
Transmedia Spa / Arch Production Srl
€110.000
Wait for me - Mitko Panov (The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
(Switzerland, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ireland, Croatia)
Co-producers:
Tipimages Productions
PirejFilm
Samson Films Ltd
MP Filmska Produkcija
380.000€
(Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary)
Co-producers:
Libra Film€160.000
Other Projects that will be funded are:Molly Monster - Matthias Bruhn (Germany), Michael Ekblad (Sweden), Ted Sieger (Switzerland)
Animation film(Switzerland, Germany, Sweden)
€370.000
Il Futuro - Paolo Sorrentino (Italy)
(Italy, France)
€460.000
Maraviglioso Boccaccio - Paolo & Vittorio Taviani (Italy)
(Italy, France)
€470.000
Il racconto dei racconti - Matteo Garrone (Italy)
(Italy, France)
€470.000
Our Sun - Joost Van Ginkel (Netherlands)
(Netherlands, Sweden)
€210.000
Schneider vs. Bax - Alex van Warmerdam (Netherlands)
(Netherlands, Belgium)
€470.000
Sedmero - Alice Nellis (Czech Republic)
(Slovakia, Czech Republic)
€280.000
Melanijas hronika - Viesturs Kairišs (Latvia)
(Latvia, Finland)
€110.000
Die Nacht der Tausend Stunden - Virgil Widrich (Austria)
(Austria, Luxembourg)
€380.000
Mænd & Høns - Anders Thomas Jensen (Denmark)
(Denmark, Germany)
€320.000
Zud - Marta Minorowicz (Poland)
(Germany, Poland) Documentary
€60.000
Birkebeinerne - Nils Gaup (Norway)
(Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Hungary)
€460.000
Moreover, in the framework of the distribution support programme, scheme I, the Board decided, after examining the non-national European films distributed during the fourth trimester, to grant €331.867 to 16 distributors for 78 films distributed in the following 9 countries: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia and “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”.
In the framework of the scheme II, support destined for innovative projects aimed at reinforcing the image of European cinema, developing public knowledge and increasing its audiences, the Board decided to support the project presented by Trimark (Serbia) for an amount of 78.250 €.
The access of Switzerland to the Creative Europe programme from the European Union having been suspended, the professionals from the Swiss audio-visual sector, will be able, with immediate effect, to benefit from distribution support programme as well as from the exhibition and digital equipment for cinema theatres of the Eurimages Fund.
Finally, the Eurimages Board of Management recommended unanimously the renewal of the mandate of Mr Roberto Olla, Executive Director of Eurimages, for a fourth consecutive two-year term running from 1 July 2014. This is the first time ever since the establishment of the Fund in 1988.
EURIMAGES is a support fund for cinema co-production, theatrical distribution, exhibition and digital equipment for cinema theatres established by the Council of Europe in 1988. Since it was set up in 1988, EURIMAGES has supported 1579 European co-productions for a total amount of approximately 479 million euros.