III. Grants» State Fund of CR»

The State Fund of the Czech Republic for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography was established by Act no. 241/1992 Coll., regarding the State Fund of the Czech Republic for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography (hereinafter referred to as the Fund Law).

The activity of the Fund is set by Section 9 of the Fund Law as follows: providing resources from financial resources of the Fund in the form of specific grants, loans or repayable financial aid for:

a) the creation of Czech cinematographic works,

b) the production of Czech cinematographic works,

c) distribution of worthy cinematographic works,

d) promotion of Czech cinematography,

e) technical development and renovation of Czech cinematography,

f) production, distribution and promotion of cinematographic works of national and ethnic minorities living in the Czech Republic.

The Fund is, according to Resolution no. 73 by the Czech government dated January 17, 1996, a body for handling requests for a coproduction charter in accordance with the European Agreement on film coproduction, which was issued under no. 26/2000 Coll. m. s. In 2011 the preliminary coproduction Charter was granted to 13 projects and definite coproduction charter for completion to 4 projects.

In accordance with the law, the administrator of the Fund is the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the statutory body is the Minister of Culture. For this reason the Fund does not have any of its own employees and does not have any organizational units other than the administrator of the Fund. The Fund also does not establish any other organizations controlled by it.

The body making decisions on the method and amount of support received from the resources of the Fund is the Fund Board, in a maximum number of 13 members. The Board worked with 10 members consisting of: Ing. Přemysl Šoba (Chairman of the Board), Mgr. MgA. Tereza Czesany Dvořáková, Ph.D. Tomáš Glanc, Josef Hanuš, Ludvík Klega, prof. Jiří Kubíček, Mgr. Kateřina Ondřejková, PhDr. Milica Pechánková, Mgr. Vladimír Soják, PhDr. Jan Svačina. On 15 December 2011 three new members, Eva Tomanová, Tereza Brdečková and Zuzana Kopečková, were elected by the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament completing the Board.

The provision of resources from the Fund is governed, in addition to the Fund Law, by the Charter and the rules of procedure of the Board. Voting on support is always secret. An application for support from the fund can, in accordance with the Fund Law, be submitted at anytime, whereas the Fund Board must decide on it within three months from the submission date.

During 2011 there were submitted 252 projects, and the Board decided on 249 projects over the course of 9 meetings. Of these 249 projects, 154 requests were supported by the Board in the amount of CZK 212,645,000.

# Total number of discussed requests in 2011 according to spheres

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By spheres | Total submitted applications | Number of these applications receiving support | Amount of support | In % of total submitted applications
Creation | 23 | 15 | 4,900,000 | 9.24%
Production | 96 | 51 | 141,900,000 | 38.55%
Distribution | 31 | 19 | 14,335,000 | 12.45%
Promotion | 58 | 33 | 28,210,000 | 23.29%
Technical Development | 41 | 36 | 23,300,000 | 16.47%
Total | 249 | 154 | 212,645,000 | 100.00%

# Total number of discussed applications in 2011 according to type of project

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By project type | Total submitted applications | Number of these applications receiving support | Amount of support | In % of total submitted applications
Documentary | 45 | 27 | 23,035,000 | 18.07%
Animated film | 18 | 13 | 37,600,000 | 7.23%
Festivals | 41 | 24 | 24,850,000 | 16.47%
Feature length film | 81 | 44 | 97,200,000 | 32.53%
Short film | 7 | 3 | 1,100,000 | 2.81%
Technical Development | 41 | 36 | 23,300,000 | 16.47%
Others | 16 | 7 | 5,560,000 | 6.43%
Total | 249 | 154 | 212,645,000 | 100.00%

The Fund’s budget for the relevant period is always an appendix of the state budget and as such its proposal is approved by the Fund’s administrator, the Czech Ministry of Finance and then by the Czech Parliament. It is part of the documentation of the state budget.

Total actual income in 2011 stood at CZK 260,446,140.

This data is derived from the Annual Report of the State Fund of the Czech Republic for the Development and Support of Czech Cinematography for 2011.