Posts Tagged ‘funding’

Amazon goes production

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

Amazon started up Amazon Studios.

How it is supposed to work, you can check out here on their website.

Basically it is a talent competition where you can hand in your screenplays.
Amazon has a first look deal with Warner on the projects submitted.
Amazon itself will shell out $20.000  each month for the best script (two scripts per month will win) and $100.000 for the best film submitted.
Users are supposed to participate and help determine the best scripts and talents.
Nothing new really: Prolonging the value-chain, by not only being distributor, but also having an in at (pre)production, crowd-sourcing (=out-sourcing?) of the selection work of finding the needle in the digital haystack…
But of course, amazon can be a very powerful distributor for you and Warner does indeed have a track record as a major studio, so the offer is not uninteresting for the aspiring talent out there.
It will be interesting to watch who will gain most from this: The talent, Warner or Amazon who will no doubt use this to refine their algorhythms and user data.

Tags: , ,
Posted in General interest, Work package 3 Industry capacity building/ market development | No Comments »

How to get the financing?

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Crowd-funding

Thinking about doing it?
Crowdfunding is/was one of the industry-buzzwords right now.
But how to do it?

Sheri Candler lists 5 ways of sure failure:

1) You do not already a have a support network online
2) Your goal is unrealistic
3) You do not know who your audience is
4) Your campaign length is too long
5) Just offer tshirts and DVDs as perks. Nothing meaningful or imaginative

Check her whole post here and maybe by avoiding the above mentioned you can come up with a model that works for you…

Or maybe some major brand steps in and helps you realise your project. Read about Converse funding a recording studio in NY – maybe they will open a film studio next?
What would you think of that?

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in General interest, Work package 3 Industry capacity building/ market development | No Comments »

The application is open for Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries 2010

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Our FIRST MOTION project partner National Film Centre of Latvia is organising a market of ideas for documentary films for all distribution platforms with international potential.

The Forum takes place on September 7-12 (pitching session on September 11-12) in Riga. The final deadline for submission of projects is June 28.

Find out all about it here on their website.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in General interest, Work package 3 Industry capacity building/ market development, Work package 5 Regional development/Clusters | No Comments »

German film-innovation award calling for ideas and projects

Friday, May 21st, 2010

This is for the Germans only, I am afraid…

But going through the German applications to our 1st Call, I think there are some very worthy contenders for this award amongst our applications. So check this one out.

Please find the official press release below:

Kulturstaatsminister Bernd Neumann schreibt den Innovationspreis des deutschen Films aus – Einreichfrist bis zum 30. Juni 2010

Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (BKM), Staatsminister Bernd Neumann, würdigt neue Ideen und herausragende Projekte, die die Leistungsfähigkeit und Entwicklung des Filmwesens in Deutschland verbessern, mit dem Innovationspreis 2010. Der Kulturstaatsminister vergibt bis zu drei Preise, die mit einer Prämie von jeweils bis zu 25.000 Euro verbunden sind. In besonderen Ausnahmefällen kann auch eine höhere Prämie verliehen werden.

Filmschaffende und -interessierte, Institutionen und Organisationen können sich mit innovativen Projekten bis zum 30. Juni 2010 schriftlich (formlos) bewerben. Die Anträge sind an das Bundesarchiv, Frau Fülöp, Potsdamer Str. 1, 56075 Koblenz zu senden (Tel.: 0261/ 505 -465, Fax: 0261/ 505 -368).

Dem Antrag sind beizufügen:

  • eine ausführliche Darstellung der für eine Auszeichnung vorgeschlagenen Innovation
  • eine Bewertung ihrer Folgen für die Leistungsfähigkeit oder für die Fortentwicklung des Filmwesens.

Zur Weitergabe an die Jury werden die Anträge in 7-facher Ausfertigung erbeten. Eine zusätzliche Einreichung via E-Mail (K35@bkm.bmi.bund.de) ist möglich. Dabei sollte der Name des Projektes sowie “Innovationspreis” in den Betreff aufgenommen werden.

Die Richtlinie ist unter www.kulturstaatsminister.de abrufbar.

Die Auszeichnungen werden im Rahmen einer Preisverleihung zum Ende des Jahres 2010 verliehen.

Kontakt/Information:
BKM- Filmreferat K 35, Tel. 0228 99 681-3449, Fax: -3885,
E-Mail: K35@bkm.bmi.bund.de

Tags: , , , , , , ,
Posted in General interest, Work package 3 Industry capacity building/ market development | No Comments »

On our own behalf: We are calling for cross-media projects

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Today First Motion sent out the first Newsletter, calling out to the Baltic Sea Region to present innovative cross-media ideas to First Motion. Creative´s can get up to 30.000€ and two international workshops as part of the deal.

All the specifics, details, information on how to apply, contact details and everything else about the call can be found here on our website. If you did not receive our newsletter, you can subscribe to it here

First Motion is funded by the European Union through the BSR Programme 2007-2013. All about the EU programme can be found here

We are very much looking forward to answering your questions and receiving your applications.

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in General interest, Work package 3 Industry capacity building/ market development | No Comments »