Calls for Entry for the second funding session of 2022 (deadline 15 December) for Piemonte Film Tv Development Fund, Doc Film Fund and Short Film Fund have been published on the website of Film Commission Torino Piemonte.
The €130k budget of Piemonte Film Tv Development Fund is earmarked for independent production companies, legally or operationally headquartered in Piedmont, to facilitate international co-productions, including with TV broadcasters, and to build the capacity to develop projects with a potential for foreign distribution. It supports feature-length films for theatrical distribution and films and series for television.
The Piemonte Doc Film Fund uses its budget of €220k to support: companies in Piedmont that explore factual themes and experiences (not confined to the region) of special relevance on both the social-cultural-artistic and the industrial- professional level; international and domestic productions from outside of Piedmont working on projects about Turin or Piedmont that are particularly relevant to the region on the social-cultural-artistic and industrial-professional levels (with the requirements of spending 120% of the grant in Turin and the region of Piedmont and for the non-Italian producer to identify a regional production company as co-producer or executive producer).
The Piemonte Doc Film Fund intervenes to support in the development of a project (intended as research or documentation, writing, promo production, funding/co-production/pre-sales research) and/or its production (intended as shooting /post production at companies in the region).
The Short Film Fund has a budget €30k to support the production (i.e. phases of shoot/post production at regional companies) of short films (fiction, animation, experimental - documentaries excluded) that are: no longer than 30’; that are made completely or in part in Piedmont, with a significant involvement of industry professionals and local service and post production structures and with at least four of the following key roles (DP, editor, sound recordist, set designer, costume designer, make-up artist) from the region; cinematic in style; aimed at a non-industry public i.e., through the national and international cinema and TV markets, independent circuits and festivals; and have a well-defined strategy for on and off line promotion and distribution that includes provisions for subtitling, marketing materials, festival participation, contract negotiation for international distribution.
In addition to producers from the region, the following may also apply to the Fund: producers from Italy and European Union member states where the project is entrusted to a director resident in Piedmont; and producers from countries outside the European Union only when the project is entrusted to a director resident in Piedmont and where the projects are of particular interest to the region for cultural and industrial reasons. (Producers without headquarters in Italy are required to identify a producer with legal headquarters in Piedmont as a co-producer or executive producer).
Updated summaries can be found at the Funding section of Italy for Movies.