ROTTERDAM: HBF+Europe will provide substantial financial support to European minority coproducers for feature films of filmmakers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of the Eastern Europe.
The new international coproduction programme HBF+Europe has been established by the Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
In addition to financial support for coproductions, HBF+Europe will give a financial framework for distribution. The programme will be open to applications as of 1 December. HBF+Europe is supported by the Creative Europe – MEDIA programme of the European Union.
The Film New Europe (FNE) Association is the networking platform for film professionals in the CEE/SEE/Baltics region. The webportal and FNE newswire was chosen as the MAIN TOOL to achieve the network’s objectives of the sharing of know how, visibility of regional cultural diversity and finally the VOICE of the region.
FNE’s objectives include VISIBILITY for the region and AUDIENCES for films by providing a special focus on the region.