Luxembourg and Canada announce new incentives for co-development and co-production

The Fonds national de soutien à la production audiovisuelle/Film Fund Luxembourg and the Canada Media Fund (CMF) have signed a two-year agreement to establish a €1.2 million incentive (€600,000 per partner) for the co-development and co-production of audiovisual projects between Luxembourg and Canadian producers. The announcement coincides with the conferences on Virtual Reality held yesterday as part of the Luxembourg City Film Festival in the presence of the FMC.

Television drama and animation projects as well as animated feature films will be eligible at the development stage. The incentive will also fund digital media projects (including virtual or augmented reality, transmedia projects and enabling technologies) at the development and production stages.

Projects will be evaluated and eventually chosen following a selection process by a committee made up of representatives from Filmfong and the FMC, as well as an independent expert from a third country chosen by the parties.

"By supporting joint audiovisual production with Canada for more than 20 years now, quality films have been produced by Canadian and Luxembourg partners involved in international co-productions. Nevertheless, we want to further strengthen our good relations in the audiovisual field, and this new agreement will enable us to diversify these partnerships, particularly in terms of new content such as virtual or augmented reality. We will be creating new opportunities to share our resources and talents so that international collaboration benefits the creative talents of each country," emphasised Guy Daleiden, Director of the Film Fund Luxembourg.

For more than 20 years, projects co-produced by creators from Canada and Luxembourg have met with great popular and critical success on the international scene," said Valerie Creighton, President and CEO of the CMF. One example is the recent animated film " Parvana, a childhood in Afghanistan (The Breadwinner), which tells the touching and compelling story of a young girl in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. With this incentive, we want to strengthen partnerships between producers in both countries so that they can continue to create high-quality content that reaches audiences around the world.

Further details of the incentive, including guiding principles and key dates, will be announced in the coming weeks.

Press release from the National Audio-Visual Production Support Fund / Canada Media Fund

Photos: Film Fund Luxembourg and Romain Girtgen (CNA)