email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

PRODUCTION Slovakia

New audiovisual fund and projects announced

by 

In a panel held during the 10th Bratislava International Film Festival (which ended December 5), the Slovak Film Institute’s Audiovisual Information Centre (AIC) announced a new Audiovisual Fund and presented the domestic (co)productions scheduled for a 2009 or 2010 release.

The new Fund will be established in January 2009 and its available monies, expected to exceed €8m, will come from diverse sources: the Ministry of Culture and special taxes imposed on audiovisual material and its promotion (a percentage of income from television advertising, etc.).

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

The fund will also grant European co-production status. First call for projects will be announced in autumn 2009. Support from current grant mechanisms ended with a last call this November.

The presentation of films included 28 fiction, six animated and 14 non-fiction films in various stages of production: development, production and post-production. Over half of the projects are co-productions, mostly with the Visegrad area (Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary), with only a few are being made with the rest of Europe (Germany, Ireland, Italy) or beyond (US).

Early 2009 should see the local releases of two Slovak features: Miloslav Luther’s Mosquito’s Tango (January 22, Luther & Partner) and Vladimir Balko’s Soul at Peace (January 29, FORZA Production House).

Another 15 fiction films are planned for next year and 10 more should follow in 2010.

The presented slate indicates that local filmmakers are starting to discover genres not common to Slovak cinema, such as B horror (Death Factory, Furca Film), comedy (The Corpse Must Die, Trigon Production), Hitchcockian thrillers (Eye: Face in the Wall, co-produced by ALEF Film & Media Group), psychological thrillers (Former People, D.N.A. Production) and animated musicals (Stones by Katarina Kerekesova).

The complete slate of presented projects can be downloaded here.

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

Did you enjoy reading this article? Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox.

Privacy Policy