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
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 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 the production budget. Committee 1 is responsible for all productions with a production budget of more than 800,000 euros. Applications for productions with a production budget 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 projects”.
The application for Subtitling is not bound to the committees. Please find more information on the corresponding fact sheets.
Please pose any questions or arrange an advisory meeting with the contact person responsible for the respective area.