Applications are accepted from natural or legal persons with sufficient qualifications for and experience with the artistic and/or economic aspects of filmmaking, regardless of their place of residence or the location of their company’s domicile, though it must be within the European Economic Community. Applications are not accepted from legal persons with a majority interest located outside the European Economic Community.

Applications are not accepted from legal persons subject to the considerable control of a television broadcaster. Such control exists when over a share larger than 25 percent is owned by a single television broadcaster or when two or more television broadcasters own a share larger than 50 percent.

If the applicant is a legal person, the FILM FUND must ensure by means of a legal agreement that the members of his or her managing bodies are personally jointly liable for proper performance.

The specific stipulations concerning eligibility to apply shall be taken into consideration for the individual subsidy areas.

A legal claim to a FILM FUND subsidy or a subsidy of a certain type or amount will not exist before approval for a subsidy is given or a subsidy agreement is concluded.

In the case of first-time applications or applications being made from abroad, a consultation meeting with the management board must take place 14 days at the latest before submission of the application; for second applications, such a meeting is recommended 14 days at the latest after submission of the application.

A subsidy application must make use of the current version of the application form for the specific type of subsidy as provided by the FILM FUND at the Web site www.Filmfonds-Wien.at. Send applications to:

Vienna Film Fund, Stiftgasse 6, A-1070 Vienna, Austria

The required enclosures and number of copies is specified on the application form. Please follow the Instruction Sheet for application forms (see Downloads at the Web site www.Filmfonds-Wien.at).

If the application is incomplete, the missing documents or materials must be submitted within a reasonable period of time specified by the FILM FUND in writing. If the missing materials are not submitted within this period of time, the application will not be accepted. Acceptance is possible beginning on the day the application materials are complete, and the decision-making process will also begin on this day. The deadline for the jury’s decision as defined under Item 5.1. will remain unaffected.

If the applicant applies to other institutions in Austria or abroad for subsidies for the same production, identical materials must be submitted to the FILM FUND. Furthermore, the FILM FUND must be notified concerning such applications immediately.

All materials that are submitted will be the property of the FILM FUND unless explicit arrangements to the contrary are made.

The applicant is responsible for the correctness and completeness of all information, in particular with regard to the calculated costs.

The applicant acknowledges and consents to the fact that, at submission of the application, the FILM FUND will have the right to exchange personal data and data which describes the applicant’s project with all groups and institutions involved with the financing of and subsidies for the project in question for the purpose of confirming the correctness of the submitted materials.

Furthermore, the applicant acknowledges and consents to the fact that, at submission of the application, the FILM FUND will have the right to disclose personal data and data which describes the applicant’s project to the necessary extent to persons not officially connected with the FILM FUND but who are subject to a legal or professional duty to observe secrecy and who are not in direct competition with the applicant. This will be done for the purpose of evaluating individual points relating to this information.