Call for applications for audiovisual production support - Fiction and Documentary - Tuscany

Description

This call for applications, set up as part of the APQ Sensi Contemporanei Programme, is for funding, for the production of new audiovisual projects in the region which haven’t yet entered the production stage, or for which filming started on or after 1 January 2020, and which will finish shooting within a year of the date on which the grant agreement is signed.
This call for applications covers the following audiovisual projects (of a duration of more than 52 minutes):

Feature films mainly for theatrical release
TV fiction
TV series
Documentary

Contacts

Toscana Film Commission

Telephone: +39 055 2719035
Email: staff@toscanafilmcommission.it
PEC: fondazionesistematoscana@pec.it

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Data sheet

Production

Italian Film or co-production
Foreign film

Distribution channel

Cinema
Television

Film industry branch

Production

Assessment

selective

Eligible projects

Feature Film
TV series
Documentary
Animation

Beneficiaries

Italian production company
European production company
Non-European production company
Italian executive production company
Italian or European cultural associations

Maximum contribution

Fiction: €100,000

Documentary: €20,000

Maximum quota on cost

50% (80% for difficult films)

Type of contribution

Non-repayable grants

Requirements

Minimum working days on the territory:
5 (Fiction)

Minimum spend in the territory:

Fiction: 150% of the total amount granted
Documentary: 100% of the total amount granted

Each company may apply for the present call for applications with one project only.

Companies applying:

must have been listed in the Registro delle Imprese (Register of Companies) at least 24 months preceding the date of publication of the incentive (or the national equivalent of the Registro delle Imprese if European and overseas companies)
must be either the single producer of the project or co-producers with a majority stake or with a minority stake of at least 20%).

Payment schedule

The grant will be paid as follows:

FICTION

first instalment: 30% in advance, to be paid upon signing the agreement;
second instalment: 40% in advance, to be paid within five months of signing the agreement and upon delivering the expense report and accounting documentation for the 70% paid in the first and second installments;
remaining 30% upon completion of the project and upon submitting the final expense report (which should be submitted within 20 months of signing the agreement).

DOCUMENTARY

first instalment: 50% in advance, to be paid upon signing the agreement;
remaining 50% upon completion of the project and upon submitting the final expense report (which should be submitted within 20 months of signing the agreement).

Notes

Filming must be completed within a year of signing the agreement.