South Tyrol’s film funding programme has operated as a financing and service partner for film and TV productions since 2011. It aims to make South Tyrol known as a production location and to support film projects that are realized in South Tyrol, either in whole or in part. The orientation is above all an economic one: Film funding is intended to stimulate investments in the region that contribute to the development of the film infrastructure. Due to the geographical location and bilingualism of the country, the South Tyrolean Film Fund looks beyond borders and acts as an interface between the film markets of Germany, Austria, Italy, and Switzerland. Therefore, a particular focus lies in the promotion of co-productions between these countries and beyond. Films supported by IDM have been screened at Cannes Film Festival, the Berlinale, Venice Film Festival, Hot Docs, KVIFF and Locarno Film Festival. In addition to film support in the narrower sense, IDM’s mandate also includes production and location services for projects that will be filmed in South Tyrol in order to both promote the region as a film location at home and abroad and to develop South Tyrol as a professional film location.
  
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CineRegio representative - Renate Ranzi

Renate Ranzi has been Film Location Coordinator at IDM Südtirol – Alto Adige since May 2017. She is responsible for the development of South Tyrol as a Film Location. From January 2018 to December 2019 she was also responsible of the Ecosystem “Creative Industries” of IDM.
Renate Ranzi graduated in International Development the University of Vienna (AT) and the Université de Genève (CH), specializing in Human Rights and Migration. Having always kept Photography and Art as her passion, she continued her education at the Friedl Kubelka Photogaphy School and the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna.
Renate Ranzi worked with several Film Productions in the Production and Scenography Department. She started working at IDM Südtirol Alto Adige in Spring 2016 contributing since than to the sustainable development of the local film and creative industry.

 

Birgit Oberkofler has been the Head of IDM Film Fund & Commission in Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy, since May 2017. Prior to this, she spent several years in charge of a wide range of further training opportunities for film professionals and worked as a funding consultant for the South Tyrolean Film Fund & Commission.
Birgit started her career as a PR and marketing manager, and studied tourism management at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria in Como, Italy. She also holds a Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) from the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI), Austria. She studied at Boston College in the US and Cranfield University in the UK as part of her MBA programme. As an active member of EUFCN and Italian Film Commissions, she is an EAVE Producers Workshop Alumni 2019 and a Board Member of Cine-Regio.
 

IDM Film Commission Südtirol
Via del Macello, 73
39100 Bolzano
Italy

+39 0471 094000
film@idm-suedtirol.com
 
www.film.idm-suedtirol.com/en