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Hubert Bals Fund
Main office
International Film Festival Rotterdam
P.O. Box 21696
3001 AR Rotterdam
Netherlands
Tel: (+31) 10 890.90.90
Fax: (+31) 10 890.90.91
Email: tiger@filmfestivalrotterdam.com
Website
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/professionals/hubert_bals_fund/
Purpose and program areas
The Hubert Bals Fund is designed to bring remarkable or urgent feature films by innovative and
talented filmmakers from developing countries closer to completion. The HBF provides grants that
often turn out to play a crucial role in enabling these filmmakers to realize their projects
Who can receive a grant
Filmmakers or producers from developing countries, list of contries here:
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/Assets/Uploads/Documents/DAC%20List%202009%20-
%202010.pdf
Types of grant support
The Fund operates in 5 different categories:
Script and project development: the maximum contribution for script and project development
is €10,000.
Digital Production: funding up to €20,000 for Digital Production of a feature length fiction film
with a maximum budget of €100,000
Post-production funding or final-financing: the maximum contribution in this category is
€30,000.
Distribution: funding up to a maximum of €15,000.
Workshops: funding up to a maximum of €10,000.
Grant size
Annually, the Hubert Bals Fund has close to €1.2 million at its disposal and is able to make individual
grants of up to €10,000 for script and project development, €20,000 for digital production, €30,000 for
post-production, €10,000 for workshops or €15,000 towards distribution costs in the country of origin.
Examples of recent grants:
Script and project development:
El 5 de talleres – Adrian Biniez - Uruguay
El abrazo de la serpiente – Ciro Guerra - Colombia
Beijing Time - Zhang Yuedong - China
The Blue Wave – Zeynep Dadak & Merve Kayan- Turkey
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