III. Grants» Eurimages»

The Eurimages Fund is currently the sole European supranational fund that supports European co-production and contributes to the stimulation of cooperation between filmmakers and producers in the various countries. This fund was established within the European Council, whose office is in Strasbourg. At present EURIMAGES has 34 member states with Albania joining last year.

EURIMAGES supports the co-production of feature, documentary and animated films at least 70 minutes long that are designated for distribution in cinemas. At least two fund member states must take part in the co-production.

The fund’s rules were slightly changed in 2008. The main change in the fund’s operation is the way in which contribution of member states are calculated. In addition to macro-economic indicators, the number of produced films designed for distribution, the number of co-productions and the amount of obtained support from EURIMAGES for a given period are taken into consideration. In 2009 the number of sessions was reduced for the first time from five to four.

In 2009, 53 of the 110 projects discussed were supported with EUR 19 460 000: of which 46 were feature films (€ 17 000 000), 6 documentaries (€ 1 030 000) and 3 animated films (€ 1 430 000).

Eurimages Fund supported one projects in 2009 with Czech participation:

ALOIS NEBEL – dir. Tomáš Luňák

Coproduction: CR – Negativ s. r. o.

Germany – Pallas Film GmbH

SR – TOBOGANG

The film was granted support of € 350 000.

The Czech Republic’s membership contribution for 2009 was € 228 919.36.