Although the fund looks closely at the financial aspects of a project, the decisive factors to grant support remain the content and artistic value. Since the founding of the fund in 1989, more than a 1,000 projects of independent filmmakers from Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America have received support.
In 2015 the Hubert Bals Fund has close to €800,000 at its disposal and is able to make individual grants in several stages of completion: early on for script and project development or after shooting for post-production. With the support of the Creative Europe MEDIA programme of the European Union, production and distribution support is offerd to European co-producers and exhibitors. Dutch producers are eligible for NFF+HBF, in collaboration with the Netherlands Film Fund.
HBF SCRIPT AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AND HBF POST-PRODUCTION
A HBF Script and Project Development grant can be used for the further development of the script (e.g. research, writing, translation or hiring a coach or script consultant) but can also be used to present the project to financiers or other potential partners at (international) co-production meetings or film festivals. The maximum contribution for HBF Script and Project development is €10,000.
Go to HBF Script and Project Development
Next deadline: 1 March 2016
A HBF Postproduction grant can be used for various activities in the post-production process (e.g. editing, colour grading or sound mixing). Please note that in return for post-production support, the HBF requests that the world premiere of the film takes place at IFFR. Also, the fund requests the distribution rights for the Benelux. The maximum contribution of the HBF for this category is €20,000.
Next deadline: 1 August 2016
