VAF provides new financial support
17 projects will be receiving a total of more than Euro 470,000 in grants from the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds. The association’s board of management has just announced the list of films selected out of the 30 projects which made applications. VAF offers a crucial service for Belgium cinematography, providing support across the whole production process, without making any distinctions of genre, covering documentaries to feature length films, experimental cinema to animation.
Seven films are being granted production support, worth a total of more than Euro 444,000. These include two documentaries: De eindeloze karavaan by Ariane Mertens (Euro 35,000) and Kingelez: Kinshasa anders bekeken by Dirk Dumon (Euro 17,605). Two projects under the banner of animation films have each received funding worth Euro 100,000: Dance by Hilaire Van Den Broeck and Crème glace by Anke Vielfont. Finally experimental films are also to receive funding, with Euro 12,500 being given for Situation by Hans Op de Beeck, Euro 90,000 going to Stone, a hyperpoem by Pablo Diaz Martinez and an award of Euro 87,500 for Virtual World of Art by Thomas Soetens and Kora Van den Bulcke.
The second and equally important part of the financial support given by VAF, the help for scripts has earmarked more than Euro 30,000 for a total of 9 films. Those receiving the funding include two feature length films and two animations: A love supreme by Pieter van Hees (Euro 6,250), No-hard-feelings.com by Julien Vrebos (Euro 12,500), Dicht/Vorm (Euro 12,500) and Waarom het voor oude vrouwtjes gevaarlijk is om uit het venster te leunen by Stefan Vermeulen and Carl van Isacker (Euro 7,500). But this category is dominated by documentaries, with 5 productions each receiving Euro 7,500: De kleine vuile man by Marc Hoogsteyns and David Griggs, Kuregem by Paul Moereels, De laatste missie by Tom Van Herzele, Mijn dierbaar België by Tom Haesen and Verloren jaren by Christoph Bohn.
Finally there was also a grant for development help worth Euro 10,000 awarded to the documentary Miniaturen uit de grote meren by Sarah Vanagt.
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