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Funding
The Finnish Film Foundation grants support for professional Finnish film production. The goal of the Foundation is to promote high-quality, versatile and unique Finnish film. Support can be granted for feature-length, short fiction, tv-drama, documentary, animation and children’s films.
Selective support can be granted for international co-productions that have a Finnish co-producer, artistic and/or technical input from Finland and at least tv distribution in Finland guaranteed. Relevance of the project for Finnish audience is also assessed.
In 2010 the FFF co-financed 23 feature films, 5 minority co-productions of feature films, 32 documentaries (including 7 minority co-productions) and 20 short and medium length fictions and animations.
Other Funding Sources
- AVEK (The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture) was established in 1987 by the Finnish copyright organization Kopiosto. AVEK funds short films, documentaries, videos, media art as well as experimental work. International co-productions with a Finnish producer can apply for financial support from AVEK.
- SATU is an organization representing the field of independent producers of audiovisual content in Finland. SATU maintains a list of Finnish Production companies at its website.
- YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, grants funding for television productions.
