The decisive criteria for obtaining funding from the FILM FUND are the production’s significance for cultural advancement, value for Vienna’s film sector and economic potential.
The cultural effect expected for the city of Vienna will be decided by an independent jury of experts in light of the quality of the documents submitted, in particular the treatment, screenplay and lists of cast and crew, and also the production’s economic and technical quality and the expected success of exploitation on the basis of the exploitation concept.
The expected economic effect will be evaluated by the FILM FUND’s management board on the basis of the proven effect the production will have on Vienna’s film sector. The jury will employ this evaluation as one of the bases for its decision.
The decisive criterion for the production’s cultural value for Vienna is the extent to which an audiovisual project has the potential to produce original creative content with a regionally specific contribution to cultural diversity in Europe and beyond, and also make this content accessible to its target group(s) through appropriate exploitation. Projects that are produced in Vienna will receive priority.
Possible criteria for making this evaluation:
link with the cultural heritage of Vienna, especially with regard to film;
treatment and representation of specifically European, in particular Viennese cultural and linguistic diversity;
treatment of regional lifestyles and history, especially in the Centrope Region;
creation of original content dealing with Vienna;
contribution to contemporary and internationally oriented cinematic culture in Vienna;
development and employment of new technologies and media;
improvement of the access to creative content dealing with cultural and social matters;
international networking with other areas of art production in Vienna and the rest of the world;
the employment of new formats, technologies and/or forms of distribution (e.g. Internet TV, mobile TV, etc.).
3.2. Effect on the Vienna`s Film Sector (Regional Effect)
The decisive criterion for evaluating significance for Vienna’s economy is the project’s effect on Vienna’s film sector. This is enerated by all planned expenditures that will go to Vienna’s film sector and the Vienna Region in the course of the film’s roduction. The Vienna Region includes areas that border on Vienna.
This effect comprises expenditures of the following types in particular:
employment of workers in this sector for artistic, technical and administrative functions, and
use of the infrastructure for film production.
The habitual residence (center of vital interests) is decisive for evaluation of this effect resulting from fees and other personnel expenditures. For all other expenditures, the company domicile (address on the invoice) is decisive.
Costs that do not involve actual payments of money can also be considered in calculating this effect if they are relevant to the production.
The effect of subsidized productions on Vienna’s film sector must amount to at least 100 percent of the FILM FUND subsidy, and 80 percent of the total production costs at the most. The producer will be permitted to spend at least 20 percent of the total production costs in another EU member state. The FILM FUND will calculate the economic effect on the film sector on the basis of the actual expenditures if a statement of accounts is submitted.
