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DAY 8
Tuesday 15 May 2018

time-period, environmental details, and organisational also flew over the Trentino Dolomites, a region where to plan their work efficiently. These are crucial factors for
links. The second is an indispensable guide on national €1.1m of funding allocated to productions in 2017 producers, home-grown but also from abroad, with
and regional incentives for film-makers, and on the translated into a positive knock-on effect of €3.4 m for the increasing number of foreign producers discovering this
technical facilities offered by the various film commissions. area, a return of 306%. As explained by Luca Ferrario, part of Italy with interest. To sum up, I would say that this
The third section provides a regional mapping of head of the Trentino Film Commission: “In recent years is a great time for us. There is a wide variety of Italian and
previously produced films and audio-visual works (with the number of productions filmed in Trentino has grown foreign productions, fiction films and documentaries, and
photos and videos), cross-referencing the production exponentially, which has allowed us to improve the speed we are at last seeing a rise in the number of Trentino
companies involved. of the services we offer and the quantity and quality of the productions able to hold their own on a worldwide level.”
The international appeal of the Italian regions is on a clear workers that we provide. We are lucky enough to be part In 2016, the Trentino Film Commission also rolled out
upwards trajectory. When looking for a location to film of a well-organised region which means film companies support for sustainable film productions, through the
his series Catch-22, adapted from Joseph Heller’s novel of can work here regularly and peacefully. Our Film Fund is T-Green Film protocol, which numerous European
the same name, George Clooney visited the ex-airport of also a straightforward process and allows production teams companies are now choosing to follow. ✦
Olbia-Venafiorita in Sardinia; further south, Brian De
Palma filmed his thriller Domino across Cagliari, Capoterra Naples in Veils
and Pula. Meanwhile, a stellar cast — Nick Nolte, Matt
Dillon, Jaqueline Bisset, Emily Mortimer and Billy Bob
Thornton — will grace our screens in Honey in the Head,
by German director, Till Schweiger, to be filmed across
Appiano, Bolzano, Fiè allo Sciliar and Dobbiaco. The last
© HAUT ET COURT Film Fund totalled €2,591,000. The Südtirol-Alto Adige
round of finance handed out to 14 projects by the IDM
Film Commission, for its part, occupies a stand in the
Cannes Italian Pavilion promoting its fund and the
locations it covers. “This year we are especially happy that
two films shot in our region — and in locations that are
at times quite unusual and very meaningful — are now
being presented at the festival”, says Birgit Oberkofler,
Head of IDM Film Fund & Commission. “The
production of In my Room, presented in the Un Certain
Regard section, was also supported by IDM,” says Renate
Ranzi, Head of IDM Film Location Development and
Ecosystem Film & Creative Industries. “The director,
Ulrich Köhler, shot a few key scenes around Laives, Chiusa
and Colle Isarco, inside an old motorway toll booth, a
tunnel and a deserted village. The Star Wars spin-off will
also be at the festival. It was shot in our region over a few
days, with spectacular aerial scenes filmed with the help of
helicopter operator, Elikos, over the Tre Cime di Levaredo
in the Sexten Dolomites, one of the most popular natural
wonders for high-altitude enthusiasts.”
Director Ron Howard’s drones in Solo: A Star Wars Story © DR

THE FIVE REGIONAL FUNDS TO WATCH

LAZIO FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA PIEDMONT EMILIA-ROMAGNA TRENTINO

The Lazio region is allocating This region operates three The Piedmont region has set The Emilia-Romagna region The fi rst regional fi lm fund
a total sum of €19m per calls for proposals per year up a guarantee fund to is committing €5m of its to certify and reward green
year, divided between two (ending: 28 February, 30 support animated fi lms, total 2018 budget to the fi lm productions has been
funds. One of these funds is June, 30 September), providing micro or small industry, with half of this established in Trentino.
dedicated to Italian, allocating funding of up to a projects with an opportunity amount going to fi lm Production companies
European and international maximum of €280,000 for to obtain a guarantee for a production. Four calls for fi lming in the region can
fi lm and audio-visual full-length fi lms, animated co-production contract or a proposals are scheduled for choose to adhere to T-Green
productions (€9m). In the fi lms, TV fi lms, TV series and pre-sales distribution the current year: one for Film guidelines and adopt a
period 2013-2017, fi nance online projects, and up to contract with a television national and international sustainable approach. The
was allocated to 1,300 €30,000 for documentaries, broadcaster. A total of €1.5m projects, another for regional APPA in Trento (Provincial
projects with a total short fi lms and music videos. has been allocated to the productions, a third for fi lm Agency for the Protection of
investment of €102m. The The process is streamlined: fund with the aim of and audio-visual projects in the Environment), monitors
other fund is dedicated to selected projects are decided providing support to seven the development stages, and the various phases of each
co-productions and offers a upon within 40 days of the or eight productions within the fourth for fi lm festivals project to ensure the
total of €10m: €5m for each close of the call for two years. Applications will and exhibitions. Since 2015, guidelines are consistently
of the two, yearly funding proposals, initial payments be accepted from 2 May, 41 documentaries/docu- adhered to. If the fi lm is
windows (with the next one are then transferred 40-45 2018. fi ction fi lms, 30 full-length successfully awarded TFC
ending on 31 July 2018). A days later, with the fi lms, 11 TV series, six short certifi cation, the fi lm will
post-production fund is also remaining balance paid in fi lms and fi ve web series benefi t from additional
awaiting approval. full 60 days on from FVG have been awarded fi nancial funds.
approval of costs. support.

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