III. Grants» Eurimages»

EURIMAGES is an international fund for the support of European film co-productions established by the European Council in Strasbourg. The support that the fund provides is designated predominantly for feature and documentary films over 70 minutes designed for distribution in cinemas and on which at least two co-producers from member countries of the EURIMAGES fund took part. The fund currently has 36 member countries. Another two countries became members in 2011: Russian Federation and the Georgian Republic. There was an increase in the volume of received funds for granting support as well as in the number of considered projects that continues to rise.

For Czech producers the expanded membership means more co-production opportunities with the prospect of receiving EURIMAGES support.

The EURIMAGES fund currently meets four times a year. Approximately 40 projects are discussed at each meeting.

In 2011 the EURIMAGES Fund supported 72 films in the total amount of 22,350,000 EUR.

| EUR
67 feature films in the amount of | 20,570,000
2 documentary films in the amount of | 130,000
3 animated films in the amount of | 1,650,000

| EUR
Contribution of the Czech Republic for 2011 | 262,144,22
Funds received for projects with Czech participation | 180,000,00

In 2011 four film projects with Czech participation requested support from the EURIMAGES fund.

Only one project with Czech participation succeeded in receiving support under these conditions of increasingly stronger competition.

SUPPORTED PROJECT WITH CZECH PARTICIPATION IN 2011

Srpnoví pošetilci/August Fools – dir. Taru M äkelä

Coproduction: Finland/Norway/the Czech Republic

Share of CR producer – 12.69%

The film was granted support of 180,000 EUR.

Source materials provided by the Eurimages fund coordinator for the Czech Republic.