Minority co-productions

• Annual budget: tbc
• Type of support: Selective scheme
• Two application deadlines per year 

What we support:

• Theatrical fiction, animated and documentary films
• Features and shorts
• Films at least partially produced in the Czech Republic using Czech goods and services
• Films involving a Czech producer as a supplier of Czech creative elements or as a minority co-producer (contributing the required minority funds)

Aspects that the Fund Councils take into consideration when evaluating the projects:

• Overall artistic quality of the film and its international appeal
• Czech artistic and technical participation
• Czech elements or use of Czech locations and settings
• Existing or potential long-term cooperation between the producers
• Cinema distribution or broadcasting in the Czech Republic

Conditions of support:

• 50% of the grant must be spent on Czech services, cast and crew (with exceptions for culturally ambitious projects)
• The Czech share must amount to at least 10% of production costs, including a possible Czech share from Eurimages, or 5% when based on European Convention on Cinematographic Co-Production
• The total amount of public funding for the entire project should not exceed 60% of the total budget (for European co-productions) or 50% in other cases (with exceptions for culturally ambitious projects)
• All funding is non-recoupable
• Payment in 2 instalments: 60% after having secured a substantial part of the financing, 40% after completion of shooting

How to apply

• Call announced later in 2025
• Application deadline 30 days from call announcement
• Funding results 3 months after application deadline

List of supported projects 2014-2024 (as of September, 2024)

Contacts

Markéta Šantrochová
Head of Czech Film Center
marketa@filmcenter.cz
+420 724 329 948
www.filmcenter.cz

Kateřina Košická
Head of Film funding department
katerina.kosicka@fondkinematografie.cz
www.fondkinematografie.cz