Funding for new projects
The Hamburg Support Fund (Filmförderung Hamburg GmbH) and Gremium 1 have agreed funding totalling €2,188,000 for film production, at a meeting held on December 5. The support will go to films that have budgets that are more than €800,000.
The films chosen include the cinema version of the children’s bestseller, Herr der Diebe by Cornelia Funke, produced by Warner Bros Filmproduktion and the Dutch company Hamburg & Comet Films, which will be given €600,000. There will also be an investment of €500,000 for the German-Irish co-production Short Order (Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion, Hamburg) while €200,000 will be given to MMM Filmproduktion Hamburg, which is making its debut with In Orbit [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)
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