An Insight into Selected Film Funding Systems

Despite the economic crisis, the effects of which can also be seen in the audiovisual sector, film production in the EU states reached a record high in 2009, with almost 1,200 cinematographic works produced. The fact that this record was set in 2009 suggests that it was the public film aid systems in Europe which prevented production levels from collapsing.

This edition of IRIS plus looks at the theme of direct film aid and, in particular, examines a group of states which have previously attracted little attention in this regard: the states of South-East Europe.

IRIS plus provides first-hand-information: the author of the lead article, Andrei Richter, is one of the five external experts appointed to the working group of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which elaborated the text of this resolution.

• Primary Source

European Audiovisual Observatory: IRIS Plus http://www.obs.coe.int/oea_publ/iris/iris_plus/index.html

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