“Germany doesn’t exist on the map – at least for Us producers,” says Studio Babelsberg CEO Christoph Fisser.
German film studios and producers have stepped up calls for an automatic tax incentive scheme to be introduced to put Germany on an equal footing with such countries as the UK, Belgium and Croatia in attracting foreign film productions.
Studio Babelsberg CEO Christoph Fisser didn’t mince his words about the difficulties being faced when he declared that “Germany doesn’t exist on the map – at least for Us producers” and pointed that his studio hadn’t been able to win any new project to come to shoot in Babelsberg since May 2015 because of the lack of attractive incentives on the scale offered in other territories.
The fact that Peter Segal’s $130m film Inversion – the first production by the Hong Kong/Beijing-based company Facing East – is now set to begin shooting at the studios in the spring was the...
German film studios and producers have stepped up calls for an automatic tax incentive scheme to be introduced to put Germany on an equal footing with such countries as the UK, Belgium and Croatia in attracting foreign film productions.
Studio Babelsberg CEO Christoph Fisser didn’t mince his words about the difficulties being faced when he declared that “Germany doesn’t exist on the map – at least for Us producers” and pointed that his studio hadn’t been able to win any new project to come to shoot in Babelsberg since May 2015 because of the lack of attractive incentives on the scale offered in other territories.
The fact that Peter Segal’s $130m film Inversion – the first production by the Hong Kong/Beijing-based company Facing East – is now set to begin shooting at the studios in the spring was the...
- 2/10/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Müller spoke at the opening of this year’s Berlinale last night [Feb 5].
Berlin’s new Governing Mayor Michael Müller has positioned himself as an ally of the German film industry given the increasingly cutthroat competition between international film hubs.
Speaking on Thursday evening at the opening of this year’s Berlinale, Müller argued that “the film-makers are entitled to political commitment, good parameters and adequate funding” if the goal is to secure a bright future for the film industry in Berlin and Brandenburg and Germany, as a whole.
He pointed out that the film industry generated “a considerable added value” and “thousands of jobs”.
Earlier in the day before last night’s ceremony, Björn Böhning, the head of Berlin’s Senate Chancellery, had spoken in a wide-ranging keynote speech to the German Producers Alliance at their Producers Day, covering such issues as the “German spend” incentive Dfff, future reform to the German Film Law (Ffg) and co-producing...
Berlin’s new Governing Mayor Michael Müller has positioned himself as an ally of the German film industry given the increasingly cutthroat competition between international film hubs.
Speaking on Thursday evening at the opening of this year’s Berlinale, Müller argued that “the film-makers are entitled to political commitment, good parameters and adequate funding” if the goal is to secure a bright future for the film industry in Berlin and Brandenburg and Germany, as a whole.
He pointed out that the film industry generated “a considerable added value” and “thousands of jobs”.
Earlier in the day before last night’s ceremony, Björn Böhning, the head of Berlin’s Senate Chancellery, had spoken in a wide-ranging keynote speech to the German Producers Alliance at their Producers Day, covering such issues as the “German spend” incentive Dfff, future reform to the German Film Law (Ffg) and co-producing...
- 2/6/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
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