Germany boosts GMPF fund but triggers protest from indie distributors

The German Motion Picture Fund (GMPF), which helps the manufacturing of high-end TV and VoD collection and movies, is to obtain an extra money injection of €15m for 2022 to fulfill the demand from producers.

 This brings GMPF’s whole 2022 funds to €90m, confirmed Claudia Roth, the state minister for tradition and media, at a gathering of the German Producers Alliance in Berlin on Friday

The fund’s funds had already been elevated originally of March from an preliminary € 50m to €75m to fulfill the rising demand from the producers of high-end collection for platforms and conventional broadcasters.

According to the GMPF, 20 collection initiatives had been supported by the fund by greater than €37m in non-repayable computerized grants in April alone. The largest single quantity to this point this 12 months of €8m went to the Universal Television’s Bumper In Berlin comedy collection primarily based on the Pitch Perfect movie franchise. It sees Adam Devine’s Bumper Allen character transfer to Germany to revive his music profession when one in every of his songs turns into massive in Berlin.

GMPF funding has additionally been awarded within the first 4 months of 2022 to the primary foray into TV collection manufacturing by System Crasher producer duo Jakob D. and Jonas Weydemann of Weydemann Bros. for the Paramount + collection Phantomjäger for which they’ve obtained € 2.1m.

Additionally, Letterbox Filmproduktion’s co-production with Switzerland’s Contrast Film has obtained €2.2m for the interval World War One espionage thriller collection Davos for public broadcasters SRG and ARD Degeto.

As beforehand reported. GMPF has additionally supported the primary German fiction authentic to be commissioned by Disney +, Sam – Ein Sachse, from UFA Fiction, and X Filme Creative Pool’s Paramount + collection Der Scheich.

Distributor outcry 

While Roth’s announcement of the money enhance for the GMPF was welcomed by the producers gathered in Berlin final Friday, this choice has been closely criticised by Germany’s affiliation of unbiased movie distributors AG Verleih whose 40 members embody Pandora Film, Neue Visionen, Wild Bunch, Weltkino and Port au Prince. 

In a press release issued on Monday morning (May 9), the affiliation’s board mentioned that it was “extremely irritated by this massive reallocation of cultural funding for which we find no political mandate in the German Film Law and which is in blatant contradiction to the Berlinale inaugural speech by the minister of state for culture Claudia Roth.”

“There is a blatant market distortion here because, to make matters worse, tax money is being used to fund series that are exploited on platforms who are known not to pay taxes in Germany,” the affiliation famous.

The distributors declared “the renewed increase in the GMPF’s budget for 2022 was “the worst possible signal for cinema and film culture” and argued that “passionate speeches for film culture must be followed by action, otherwise they just remain mere pretty speeches”.

 

 

 

 

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