Main aims:
Promoting cultural exchange through co-productions
Target groups:
German and Portuguese co-production partners in the audiovisual sector
Expected results:
Revising existing co-production agreement with Portugal; making it simpler to initiate joint feature film projects; increasing the number of German-Portuguese co-productions; increasing the reach and market share of the partner country's films domestically; promoting exchange and cooperation between filmmakers of both countries
Co-production meeting for German and Portuguese producers held in 2017 in Lisbon - facilitated networking, exchange on partner countries' markets and new film projects aimed at an international audience; 2nd German-Portuguese co-production meeting held on 28 and 29 June 2019 within the framework of the Munich International Film Festival: themes of the event organised by the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and its Portuguese counterpart Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual ICA included: presenting national and regional film support measures and production conditions of joint cooperation and German-Portuguese co-production successes achieved thus far