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The following is a brief summary of support granted by the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
For complete details please see Applying for Support, Guidelines and Application Forms.
CONDITIONS AND APPLICATION
Conditions for granting of support for project development and production: - The project must be suited for cinema exhibition, TV broadcasting or for other type of distribution.
- The project must be considered by the Fund to have a sufficient audience potential in the Nordic countries.
- The Fund does not contribute to the funding of a project that has been pre-sold to or that is co-produced by a Nordic TV broadcaster that is not one of the TV Partners of the Fund.
Application:
- Application with annexes shall be written in a Scandinavian language or in English.
- Applications are evaluated on a continuous basis.
- Processing of applications normally takes 4 to 6 weeks.
TYPES OF SUPPORT AND CRITERIA FOR SUPPORT
The Fund provides support in the form of top financing under the following conditions
SUPPORT FOR PROJECT DEVELOPMENT - National base funding must be confirmed.
- Support will primarily be granted for feature films and TV fiction / series, to a lesser degree for documentaries.
- If a project has applied but not received support for project development, it is still possible to apply for production support.
- MAY BE APPLIED FOR BY NORDIC PRODUCTION COMPANIES
SUPPORT FOR PRODUCTION
FEATURE FILMS - National base funding must be confirmed.
- Distribution guarantee for cinema exhibition must be signed with at least 2 Nordic countries.
- Broadcasting contract must be signed with a minimum of 1 of the TV Partners of the Fund.
TV FICTION / SERIES
- National base funding must be confirmed.
- Broadcasting contracts must be signed with a minimum of 2 of the TV Partners of the Fund (but only with 1 if a TV company is itself the producer).
DOCUMENTARIES
- National base funding must be confirmed.
- Broadcasting contracts must be signed with a minimum of 2 of the TV Partners of the Fund. Alternatively, a distribution guarantee for cinema exhibition in at least 2 Nordic countries and a broadcasting contract with a minimum of 1 of the TV Partners of the Fund must be signed.
MAY BE APPLIED FOR BY NORDIC PRODUCTION COMPANIES
SUPPORT FOR CINEMA DISTRIBUTION
- A film applying for distribution support must have been well received by its respective national audience, and must have a satisfactory audience potential in one or more Nordic countries.
- Support may be granted independently of whether the film previously has been granted production support from the Fund.
The Fund may, under special circumstances, provide support for other types of distribution.
- MAY BE APPLIED FOR BY NORDIC DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES BASED IN THE COUNTRY WHERE THE FILM WILL BE RELEASED
SUPPORT FOR DUBBING
Support is granted for dubbing to another Nordic language.
A film applying for support for dubbing shall have been well received by its respective national audience, and must have a satisfactory distribution and audience potential in one or more Nordic countries.
- Support may be granted independently of whether the film previously has been granted production support from the Fund.
- Support is normally only granted to films for children and young people.
- MAY BE APPLIED FOR BY NORDIC PRODUCTION COMPANIES OR DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES BASED IN THE COUNTRY WHERE THE FILM WILL BE RELEASED
SUPPORT FOR FILM CULTURAL INITIATIVES
Support is granted for Film Cultural Initiatives in the form of workshops, seminars or festival programmes that may strengthen the competence of the Nordic film and TV community.
- MAY BE APPLIED FOR BY THE ORGANISER OF THE INITIATIVE
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