14/07/2011

Baden-Württemberg’s regional funds MFG Filmförderung has allocated around €4 million towards 21 audiovisual projects, which include the three-part film series Baron Münchhausen by Andreas Linke, a project of the company teamWorx which received the largest amount - €500,000 - and ten feature films, as well as two short films.

Contributions towards script development worth €25,000 to €30,000 were granted to Beschützer der Diebe, an adaptation of the children’s bestseller by Andreas Steinhöfel, romantic comedy-cum-political satire Omar und die 72 Jungfrauen by Olaf F. Wehling, 3D animated family film Die Biene Maja, of which Studio Soi is in charge, and to the drama UnterWölfen, which is currently being written by Susanne Schneider (who was recently behind the camera with Le jour viendra).

The fund will also finance, at the rate of €40,000 each, the pre-production of RAQS by Yilmaz Arslan and the biograpgical film Robert Bosch by Uwe Janson.

Feature films to have also benefited from MFG’s generous contributions towards production are the drama Die Nonne by Guillaume Nicloux (€400 000), family drama Klang der Stille by Friederike Jehn (€300 000), adventure film Die Schwarzen Brüder by Urs Egger (€300 000) and coming-of-age story Scherbenpark by Bettina Blümner (€220 000).

(Translated from French)