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FUNDING Germany

FFA grants €3.1m in production funding

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At its latest funding allocation session, the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA – German film regulating body) granted €3.1m to 13 feature film projects (out of 37 submitted films).

These include new works by renowned directors, starting with Christian Ditter (The Crocodiles 1 [+see also:
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and The Crocodiles 2), who received the generous sum of €550,000 for Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods (Rat Pack Filmproduktion), while Peter Thorwarth (director of Bang Boom Bang and screenwriter on The Wave [+see also:
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) obtained €350,000 for Vorstadtkrokodile – Alle Für Einen! (Westside Filmproduktion).

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Franziska Buch (Emil and the Detectives) and Munich-based production company Blue Eyes Fiction received €450,000 for the project Yoko, as did Jeremy Leven and Wiedemann & Berg Film for Girl on a Bicycle.

Other chosen directors include Peter Timm (Beloved Berlin Wall [+see also:
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), who got €220,000 for Löwenzahn – Der Film (Studio TV Film); and Michael Glawogger (Same Same But Different [+see also:
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), whose project Vor die Hunde was granted €150,000 (X Filme Creative Pool).

Andreas Dresen (Whisky with Vodka [+see also:
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) obtained €45,000 for Herr Wichmann aus der Dritten Reihe (Iskremas Filmproduktion). Dresen’s regular screenwriter, Wolfgang Kohlhaase, didn’t pen the latter film, but he has written I Phone You (produced by Reverse Angle International and directed by Dan Tang), which was granted €100,000.

Just one screenplay got financial support, Ausgerechnet Sibirien, written by Michael Ebmeyer (€27,500 for Jooya Filmproduktion).

The next deadlines for funding applications have been set for August 31 and November 30. To see the full list of projects to have received backing, visit the FFA website.

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(Translated from French)

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