(L-R): Guy Daleiden, director Film Fund Luxembourg; Pascal Piron, artist; Karolina Markiewicz, artist; Toby Coffey, Head of Digital Development, National Theater UK; Myriam Achard, Director of Communications at Phi Center Montreal, Canada; Mads Damsbo, fo;
Credit: Film Fund Luxembourg
The National Audiovisual Production Fund / Film Fund Luxembourg and the Canada Media Fund (CMF) have signed a two-year agreement to establish an incentive package of €1.2 million (€600,000 per partner) for co-development and co-production of audiovisual projects between Luxembourg producers and Canadian producers.
The announcement coincides with yesterday's Virtual Reality Conferences at the Luxembourg City Film Festival in the presence of the CMF.
Fiction and animation television projects, as well as animation feature films, will be eligible at the development stage. The incentive will also fund digital media projects (virtual and augmented reality, transmedia projects and enabling technologies, among others) at the development and production stage.
Projects will be evaluated and possibly selected following a selection process by a committee composed of Filmfong and FMC representatives, as well as an independent expert from a third country chosen by the parties.
"By supporting more than 20 years of joint audiovisual production with Canada, quality films have emerged between Canadian and Luxembourg partners involved in international co-productions. However, we wish to further strengthen our good relations in the audiovisual field and this new agreement will help to diversify these partnerships especially in terms of new content such as virtual or augmented reality. We will create new opportunities to share our resources and talents so that international collaboration benefits the creative community in each country," said Guy Daleiden, director of Film Fund Luxembourg.
"For more than 20 years, projects co-produced by creators in Canada and Luxembourg have been a resounding popular and critical success on the international stage," said Valerie Creighton, President and CEO of the CMF. "For example, the recent Oscar-nominated animated film Parvana, a childhood in Afghanistan (The Breadwinner), presents the touching and fascinating story of a girl in a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Through this incentive, we want to strengthen partnerships between producers in both countries to continue to create high quality content that reaches audiences around the world."
Further details on the incentive, including guiding principles and important dates, will be announced in the coming weeks.
