Overview
our Funding at a glance
Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein supports the production and exploitation of films of all genres and any length, national or international, from the development of the script to the film’s screening in the cinema or its broadcast on television.
Applications can be submitted for the following areas:
- Script Funding
- Project Development
- Production Support
- Sales and Distribution Support
- Screening and Film Presentation Support (cinema)
- Further Funding
International co-productions can also be funded. The aims are to bring interesting co-productions to Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, to strengthen producers from the region as potential co-production partners for international projects and to continue existing cooperation.
Funding for Script Funding, Project Development, Production Support, as well as Sales and Distribution Support is supplied in the form of conditionally repayable loans.
The means are allocated, in accordance with the principles laid down in the funding guidelines, by two different selection committees. The responsibilities of the committees are determined by the expected amount of negative cost. Committee 1 is responsible for all productions with a negative cost of more than 800,000 euros. Applications for productions with a negative cost of less than 800,000 euros are decided on by Committee 2.
The committees reach their decision about eight weeks after the application deadline. The results are published on the FFHSH website under the heading “funding recipients”.
Applications for Subtitling, Basic Advertising, Special Measures and Backup Copies are not bound to the committees. Please find more information on the corresponding fact sheets.
In addition to the FFHSH guidelines, an annual 450,000 euros are allocated to NDR commissions and co-productions. These are presented to production companies seated in Schleswig-Holstein as grants in accordance with the hitherto existing guidelines of MSH – Society for the Promotion of Audiovisual Works in Schleswig-Holstein, in order to strengthen Schleswig-Holstein as a film and TV location.
Please find important instructions for the individual funding applications on the corresponding Fact Sheets, available for downloading on the FFHSH website along with the Application Forms.
Please find information on the funding areas, funding guidelines and the application forms of Filmwerkstatt Kiel here.
Please pose any questions or arrange an advisory meeting with the contact person responsible for the respective area.
