Fondazione Film Commission Roma Lazio
FONDAZIONE FILM COMMISSION ROMA LAZIO was founded February, 2007, encompassing the Lazio Region, the Municipality of Rome, the Province of Rome, the Province of Frosinone, the Province of Rieti and the Province of Viterbo.
The Foundation carries out activities aimed at promoting cinema, audiovisual media and coproductions, serving as a point of contact between the principal national and international companies and Lazio, the traditional land of great cinema.
The foundation supports cinema and audiovisual productions by providing a platform for the development of international coproduction with the organization of coproduction meetings during the main film festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Rome, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai). Also, it assists national and international productions in finding qualified professionals and film production services, and it helps in the obtaining of filming permits throughout the region.
Furthermore, it offers support and guidance regarding the financial resources the Lazio regions can make available to the film and audiovisual industry.
The Foundation provides two funding schemes: 1. The Regional Film and Audiovisual Fund (cash-rebate system) and 2. Lazio Cinema International (coproduction incentive).
1. Regional Film and Audiovisual Fund
Budget: 15 ML euro
Type of incentive: Cash rebate - Subsidy – Automatic funding
Qualifying expenses:
Eligible costs include those above and below the line that were borne within Lazio Region.
13% of eligible expenses for cinema and audiovisual projects (such percentage may be raised to 15% for the following categories: Kids, first and second features, multimedia and interactive including crossmedia and multiplatform works, creative documentaries, low cost genre pics, works produced by independent producers, works produced by micro and small companies).
The work must be acknowledged as a ''cultural product", on the basis of a test assessing the cultural eligibility, included in the application form that is published every year.
Minimum local spending of 40% of costs in Lazio Region
Beneficiaries:
The recipients of such funding include individual or family businesses, partnerships or corporations whose only or main activity is the production of film and audiovisual works.
The foreign production companies have to ask the line producer of the film/audiovisual work, i.e. the person in charge of the organization of the production of the film, either entirely or only for the Italian part, to fill in and submit the application for funding.
The total amount of funding cannot be higher than € 750.000,00 for each company.
Payment schedule: after completion of the production
2. Lazio Cinema International
Incentives for co-productions
Budget: 10 ML euro
50% for Cinematographic co-productions
50% for Other Audiovisual Works
Type of incentive: Grant for admissible expenses borne by the beneficiaries in order to perform a Co-Production.
Application: on-line submission from 1st December 2015
Evaluation by a commission and contribution on first-in first-served basis.
Beneficiaries:
Companies mainly operate in the sector of “Film, video and television programme production” (ATECO [Business Activity] Code 2007 59.11), comply with the size-related requirements for SMEs.
Companies, at the latest upon the request for the first disbursement, must have residence in Italy for tax purposes and operational headquarters in Lazio, which must be retained for at least 3 years from said date.
The amount of the contribution may not exceed 35% of the Admissible Expenses, or 45%, in the case of Co-Productions financed by at least another EU Member State.
Admissible expenses:
Potentially admissible Co-Production expenses are the Industrial Costs, comprised of costs relating to the release, promotion and distribution of the Audiovisual Work and of the Production Cost
Amount of Admissible Expenses relating to the Lazio territory: equal to at least 130% of the requested contribution.
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CineRegio Representative - Mrs. Maria Giuseppina TRoccoli
Special Commissioner and General Manager ad interim of ROMA LAZIO FILM COMMISSION
Contact
FONDAZIONE FILM COMMISSION di ROMA e del LAZIO
c/o Polo Cinema e Audiovisivo della Regine Lazio
Via Parigi 11
00185 Roma
info@romalaziofilmcommission.it
www.romalaziofilmcommission.it