GERMAN FEDERAL FILM BOARD NEW PARTNER OF THE POLISH-GERMAN FILM FUND

On 9 December 2016, the eve of the 29th European Film Awards ceremony in Wroclaw, the heads of the Polish Film Institute, the German Federal Film Board (FFA), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, and MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung signed an agreement of cooperation within the framework of the Polish-German Film Fund, which added the German Federal Film Board as a new partner of this initiative. The annual budget of the Polish-German Film Fund will increase from 300,000 euros to 500,000 euros.

As stated by Magdalena Sroka, head of the Polish Film Institute, Kirsten Niehuus, head of Medienboard, and Claas Danielsen, head of MDM: “Germany and Poland are two nations with a long and versatile film tradition. The FFA’s participation in the program means that our cooperation will be fostered on the national level by the German side as well as the Polish side.”

The Polish-German Film Fund was launched in 2015 and replaced the Polish-German Co-Development Fund, which had been running since 2005 and focused on supporting collaborative film projects. It was in 2015 that the heads of the cooperating organizations decided to broaden the scope of the Fund to include support for film production.