It is really important to support the film
industry, that’s why Film Boards are vital for enhancing the economy of this
industry. The Government should support the national film industry and help
them, so their projects are not only a success nationally, but worldwide. Down
below, there will be some information about how the is the Germany´s film
industry financed.
The German Federal Film Board (FFA) is a public
institution that supports the promotion and production of the German cinema. It
also is in charge of improving the structure of the national film industry and
it works to align and coordinate film support measures by the Federal Government
and regional states.
The institution was founded in 1968 as an
answer to the deterioration of the German´s film industry in that decade and
following the lead of France and Italy, countries that had established systems
in order to support their national film industries.
The FFA support films at all stages of
production (so it can fund projects from script development to the production
stage and its distribution). The FFA has also other duties like the
preservation of film heritage, the promotion at an international level of
German cinema, it has to promote film education and to compare, analyze and
publish data from the German film, exhibition and video industries.
The FFA has a staff of 55 people. The CEO of
the institution is Peter Dinges and his deputies are Frank Völkert and
Christine Berg. The Administrative Council, which has 36 members, is in charge
of the main issues in the FFA´S area of responsibility. There is a granting
Committee that is responsible of choosing to which film project are the funds going.
The German Federal Film Board is financed by
the “Film Levy” that following the German Film Law (FFG) establishes that
companies exploiting feature films have to pay a legally proportion of their
revenues to the FFA. It must be paid by exhibitors, the amount is calculated
per screen and based on the annual net resulting from the tickets sold; the
video industry, it ranges within 1.8% to 2.3%, also calculated on the annual
net from the revenues; and the broadcaster: for the public ones, the amount
they have to pay is based on their expenditure for airing feature films; and
for the private ones, with free to air channels pay based on their net
advertising turnover. Finally, the programme providers pay a not scaled of
0.25% of their net turnover from their subscription contacts. The annual budget
of the institution is around 76 million Euros.
The German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) is
administrated by the FFA, created in 2007. Its funding consists of a non-repayable
grant to film producers and awarded for films, documentaries and animated
pictures. This funding does not apply for television projects.
The FFA supports co-production with France and
Italy. Germany has a supplementary agreement called “Minitraité” established
with the Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC) in addition to the German-
French Film Agreement. On the other
hand, the FFA and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage Activities and Tourism (MiBACT)
agreed to support the co-development of film projects.
The importance of these Film Boards is to
support the national industry, in order to promote the production of films with
good quality that can reach the widest audience it can get. For example, the
movie Look who´s back (David
Wneddt,2015) funded by the FFA with 1.432.040 Euros was listed as one of the
German submissions for the Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy
Awards, it was not selected though. But the point is that as more support the
Government gives to these projects, the more possibilities there are for, in
this case, German’s films to be known and have even more profits.
An example of the possibilities that the co-production
agreements allow is the movie Mustang (Deniz
Gamze Ergüven, 2015) an international co-production between France,
Germany and Turkey. The FFA total amount funding was 170.000 Euros. This movie
has been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year in the
Academy Awards (2016), nominated for the Golden Globes for the Best Motion
Picture – Foreign Language and it won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European
film in the Director´s Fortnight section in the Cannes Festival, and it has
been nominated and won other awards.
Link to the trailer:
References:
-http://www.ffa.de/ffa-overview-1.html
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Germany#German_Film_Academy
-https://books.google.com.co/books?id=QQsRlg7zjDwC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=german+federal+film+board+1968&source=bl&ots=2KI4difCoV&sig=u5rkDq8ZtnkGmk4wmlymzDlUL5c&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYj6j46snPAhVD8j4KHbuZBDAQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=german%20federal%20film%20board%201968&f=false
-http://www.cineuropa.org/dd.aspx?t=dossier&l=en&tid=1365&did=147062
-http://www.dfff-ffa.de/en.html
-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3966404/awards
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