REGIONAL FILM FUNDING IN GERMANY light with the shooting of the Euro 17.9 million Buffalo Soldiers on location near Karlsruhe last year. MFG also enjoys very close connections with partners in neighboring Alsace, Switzerland and Austria, and has encouraged co-productions, the so-called ”twinning initiatives“ in these areas. In addition, the fund has made great efforts to keep the young talents graduating from the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg by attracting production companies such as teamWorx and Peter Rommel Productions to the region and by launching the First Film program to finance debut features with international potential. Other activities with MFG backing include the annual Drehbuchcamp and the Ludwigsburg/Stuttgart Film Festival which focuses on European cinema. MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH Breitscheidstr. 4 (Bosch-Areal) · D-70174 Stuttgart phone +49-7 11-90 71 54 00 · fax +49-7 11-90 71 54 50 www.film.mfg.de · email: filmfoerderung@mfg.de Contact Gabriele Röthemeyer (CEO) Personnel Dieter Krauß (deputy managing director/distribution-sales, special projects), Karin Frey (screenplay), Uschi Freynick (exhibition support, events), Anne Marburger (production/documentary, distribution/sales, press), Katja Walter (production/fiction), Claudine Sulyok (office) Established in 1995 Funds available approx. Euro 11 million Co-productions supported Buffalo Soldiers, Northern Skirts, Devil’s Island, Jew-Boy Levi, Tango Lesson, All For Love, Full Moon, Tabu – Die letzte Reise MITTELDEUTSCHE MEDIENFÖRDERUNG (MDM) Although the youngest, Leipzig-based MDM is also the fourth largest of the ”Big Six“, catering to the media scene in the states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, who are all shareholders along with broadcasters MDR and ZDF. MDM has focused its funding activities on children’s films, documentaries, multimedia and up-and-coming filmmakers, and supported over 250 projects with some Euro 40.1 million in its first three years. Key criteria for a successful application is a project’s quality and the promise of a regional ”effect“ of over 100%. The fund has also earmarked resources to help young production companies like L.E.Vision, motion works and Kinderfilm GmbH establish themselves in the region and has promoted the export of <strong>German</strong> cinema through its support of <strong>German</strong> Film Days in St. Petersburg. Furthermore, the local production scene has been given a boost by MDM’s involvement in such industry events as the Connecting Cottbus initiative at the Film Festival Cottbus, Babelsberg’s Cartoon Movie, the d-motion DVD conference in Halle and the Discovery Campus Master School for documentary filmmakers. Training workshops of the MEDIA initiatives EAVE, Vertical Strategies and Cartoon Masters have also been held in the area. 10 Manfred Schmidt Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH Hainstr. 17-19 · D-04109 Leipzig phone +49-3 41-26 98 70 · fax +49-3 41-2 69 87 65 www.mdm-foerderung.de · email: info@mdm-foerderung.de Contact Manfred Schmidt (CEO) Personnel Alrun Ziemendorf (production, documentary, children’s film, animation), Britta Marciniak (production, TV movies and series, distribution & world sales), Roland Fleckenstein (production & international co-productions), Mario Fischer (production, script, short films, newcomer filmmakers, multimedia), Thomas Große (press) Established in 1998 Funds available approx. Euro 13 million Co-productions supported Taking Sides, Der kleine Eisbär, Waterloo, My Sweet Home, Till Eulenspiegel, Globi der gestohlene Schatten <strong>Kino</strong> 1/<strong>2002</strong>
www. germancinema. de/ GERMAN CINEMA INFORMATION ON GERMAN FILMS. Export-Union des Deutschen Films GmbH Sonnenstrasse 21 · D-80331 Munich · phone +49-89-5 99 78 7 0 · fax +49-89-59 97 87 30 · email: export-union@german-cinema.de
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