Funding commitments from the Vienna Film Fund for the 3rd jury meeting in 2024 and the 2nd TV application deadline in 2024
Vienna (OTS) – The commitments of the current film funding round of the Vienna Film Fund focus on social issues and biographical material, which can be presented both in a documentary form (“Valie Export”, “Karl Ratzer”, “Do we all have to die?”, “Molln”) as well as fictionally (“In Secret”, “You Live Because You Are Born”).
At the third meeting in 2024, the jury, consisting of Christine Dollhofer, Peter Jäger, Malina Nwabuonwor, Katrin Renz and Manfred Schmidt, awarded a total of 14 projects Commitments – Funds amounting to 2.42 million euros were awarded. 30 projects were submitted with an application amount of 6.43 million euros.
For the second TV application deadline in 2024, 24 television projects were submitted with a total application amount of 884,000 euros, 13 projects received commitments from the Vienna Film Fund in the amount of 481.600 Euro.
Eleven productions will receive funding totaling 2,336,000 euros.
VALIE EXPORT. THE ARMED EYE is the new project by director and author Claudia Müller, whose documentary film “Elfriede Jelinek – Letting Language Off the Leash” won both the Austrian Film Prize and the German Film Prize last year. The documentary portrait of the important Austrian artist Valie Export primarily highlights the topicality of her works and focuses on her role as a key feminist figure and mediator between the international women’s movement and the artistic avant-garde. The project is being realized as a majority co-production by Vienna’s Derflinger Film and Berlin’s Manderley Film.
The documentary film KARL RATZER – IN SEARCH OF THE GHOST is the new project by director, author and producer Thomas Roth: As the child of two Roma Auschwitz survivors, Karl Ratzer teaches himself to play the guitar in 1950s Vienna and later becomes an acclaimed jazz star in the USA. However, his eccentric personality and excessive lifestyle take their toll.
IN SECRET Based on the non-fiction novel of the same name by Ljuba Arnautović, it tells the story of her grandmother Eva, whose political struggle in Red Vienna in the early 1930s becomes a fight for survival during the Dollfuss dictatorship and the Nazi era. The historical drama will be directed by Goran Rebić, who also wrote the screenplay together with Arnautović. Amour Fou Vienna is managing the project as a majority co-production with Luxembourg and Switzerland.
In the children’s Christmas film EMMY AND THE LAST SPELL Nine-year-old Emmy longs for a white Christmas. But not only is there no snow this time, Emmy also discovers that people are losing their imagination. Together with Rumpel, the little imp from the fairy tale world, she begins an adventurous journey through pre-Christmas Vienna to save the magic of the world. The majority co-production of Vienna’s Flair Film and Golden Girls Film with Oslo’s Maipo Film is the feature film debut of director Juliana Neuhuber, who is also responsible for the screenplay together with Ines Häufler.
The Vienna-based Schubert Füm will produce the feature film as a minority co-production together with its German sister company Schubert Film and the Copenhagen-based Profile Pictures KEEP HER QUIET The political drama deals with the current fate of the Uighurs and will be the feature film debut of director Franz Böhm based on a screenplay by Böhm, Samuel Gheist and Suli Kurban.
1989: The journalist André Müller, known for his radical interviews with celebrities, travels to his mother in Vienna to interview her and finally break her silence. Based on the conversation of the same name that Müller conducted and published with his mother in the late 1980s, the minority co-production YOU LIVE BECAUSE YOU ARE BORN the Viennese Wega Film with the Berlin Madonnen Film. The drama is directed by Maria Speth (“Mr. Bachmann and his Class”) based on a screenplay by Speth and Reinhold Vorschneider.
WOODWALKERS 2 continues the adventures of the shape-shifter Carag from the fantasy film “Woodwalkers” which will be released this autumn. The minority co-production of the Viennese Dor Film with the Munich-based Blue Eyes Fiction and the South Tyrolean Filmvergnuegen is directed by Sven Unterwaldt, once again based on a screenplay by David Sandreuter, based on the book series by Katja Brandis.
DO WE ALL HAVE TO DIE? Documentary filmmaker Werner Boote asks himself in his new film of the same name and explores whether humanity can find a collective solution in a time of wars, climate disputes and environmental disasters – which Lotus-Film produces.
A large natural gas deposit is suspected in the national park community of Molln. However, the Australian-Austrian energy company that wants to exploit the gas discovery commercially is encountering resistance from the population. The first test drilling marks the beginning of a test of strength with an uncertain outcome. MOLLN (AT) is the new cinema project by documentary filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter.
In DYING FOR BEGINNERS the directing duo Andrea Eder and Kurt Langbein take a sober look at the subject of death: personally, scientifically and socially. The cinema documentary is based on a concept by Kurt Langbein, Langbein & Partner produced.
ON PROBATION (AT) accompanies probation officers in their challenging work, who, despite all obstacles, strive day after day to accompany their clients in a solution-oriented way to a crime-free life. It becomes clear that good probation work primarily means effective victim protection. The project by director and author Jan Prazak is being realized by berg hammer film.
Three project developments will receive funding totaling 92,000 euros.
17-year-old Maria wakes up after an alcohol blackout with stigmata-like wounds on her hands. Her friend Bella films everything and posts on YouTube that Maria is a saint. Between digital fame, spiritual enlightenment and the intense friendship with Bella, Maria has to find her own way – especially since she believes neither in God nor in herself. The feature film debut of Rosa Friedrich WHO IS AFRAID OF GOD? is based on a screenplay by Friedrich and Joshua Jadi, produced by FreibeuterFilm.
In a small Hungarian town, teenage Dani unexpectedly attacks his teacher with a knife. After the crime, his parents must deal with the legal and emotional consequences of the act of violence, their own trauma and the humiliating reactions of society. THE SHAME OF THE BORBÉLY FAMILY is the feature film debut of director and author Kálmán Nagy and is being produced by Dor Film.
In his new film RAUSCH Director and producer Ulrich Seidl is dedicated to the many facets of alcohol intoxication. The documentary project about Austria’s number one drug is planned according to a concept by Seidl and Veronika Franz.
Twelve documentary and one fictional TV project will receive funding totaling 481,600 euros.
The supported documentary television productions are dedicated to both historical and current social and cultural topics. The music documentary YOUNG HISTORY into the current Austrian hip-hop scene, portrays its artists and shows what drives them. The ORF/arte series THE GREAT MUSIC CITIES is dedicated to both modern and classical music: in four episodes, the cities of Vienna, Munich, London and Paris and their respective musical DNA are explained. The documentary AUSTRIA UNDER THE RAINBOW traces the path of the LGBTIQ movement over the past 60 years, compares the domestic movement with international developments and addresses why the abolition of prohibition laws and the development of registered partnerships and marriage took longer in Austria than in many other European countries.
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