International projects need to spend part of their budget in Belgium.
Brussels-based Belga Film Fund is looking for international film and TV projects in which to invest the €30m it says it has raised this year through the Belgian tax shelter.
“We are putting together a line-up of projects that will be shot in 2022 but will benefit from the funds we will collect this year,” explained company founder and general manager Fabrice Delville.
He said Belga is open to applications for funding before its next funding deadline ends on December 6th.
“Our support is spend-related. We ask for the project to spend money in Belgium,...
Brussels-based Belga Film Fund is looking for international film and TV projects in which to invest the €30m it says it has raised this year through the Belgian tax shelter.
“We are putting together a line-up of projects that will be shot in 2022 but will benefit from the funds we will collect this year,” explained company founder and general manager Fabrice Delville.
He said Belga is open to applications for funding before its next funding deadline ends on December 6th.
“Our support is spend-related. We ask for the project to spend money in Belgium,...
- 11/26/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The Brussels-based company’s ‘Bigfoot Family’ recently sold to Netflix.
An animated feature based on the story of Don Quixote is in production at Brussels-based animation studio nWave Pictures, scripted by two of the screenwriters behind Toy Story.
Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen have written the feature, which will be directed by Jérémie Degruson and has a budget between €15m ($18m) and €20m ($24m).
The original screenplay first surfaced more than 10 years ago, titled Q, but nWave founder and filmmaker Ben Stassen told Screendaily that it will be renamed.
“It’s about a puppet theatre in New York City where...
An animated feature based on the story of Don Quixote is in production at Brussels-based animation studio nWave Pictures, scripted by two of the screenwriters behind Toy Story.
Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen have written the feature, which will be directed by Jérémie Degruson and has a budget between €15m ($18m) and €20m ($24m).
The original screenplay first surfaced more than 10 years ago, titled Q, but nWave founder and filmmaker Ben Stassen told Screendaily that it will be renamed.
“It’s about a puppet theatre in New York City where...
- 2/12/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The film stars Lea Seydoux, Matthias Schoenaerts and Colin Firth.
Belga Films Fund, the tax shelter arm of the Belga Films Group, has raised over 5m Euros for Thomas Vinterberg’s Kursk.
Lea Seydoux (pictured) joined Matthias Schoenaerts and Colin Firth in the cast back in February.
The film tells the true story of the K-141 Kursk, the Russian flagship nuclear-powered submarine that sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea in August 2000. The 35m Euro project is also looking for extra funding from Belgian funds Screen Brussels, Wallimage and Screen Flanders.
The EuropaCorp-backed feature, which started production on May 10, is shooting partly at Aed Studios near Antwerp a facility which has one of the largest indoor water tanks in Europe. It will be released in Benelux by Belga Films under the terms of the output deal Belga has with EuropaCorp.
Details of the extent of Belga’s involvement in Kursk were revealed by Fabrice Delville, Founder...
Belga Films Fund, the tax shelter arm of the Belga Films Group, has raised over 5m Euros for Thomas Vinterberg’s Kursk.
Lea Seydoux (pictured) joined Matthias Schoenaerts and Colin Firth in the cast back in February.
The film tells the true story of the K-141 Kursk, the Russian flagship nuclear-powered submarine that sank to the bottom of the Barents Sea in August 2000. The 35m Euro project is also looking for extra funding from Belgian funds Screen Brussels, Wallimage and Screen Flanders.
The EuropaCorp-backed feature, which started production on May 10, is shooting partly at Aed Studios near Antwerp a facility which has one of the largest indoor water tanks in Europe. It will be released in Benelux by Belga Films under the terms of the output deal Belga has with EuropaCorp.
Details of the extent of Belga’s involvement in Kursk were revealed by Fabrice Delville, Founder...
- 5/19/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Company is also raising finance for nWave’s animation feature The Queen’s Corgi.
Ambitious new financier Belga Films Fund, the Belgian tax shelter arm of the Belga Films group, has announced its latest investments and projects.
The fund, which will have collected over €10m through the tax shelter by the end of the year, is co-producing and co-financing Roman Polanski’s latest feature, D’après Une Histoire Vraie (Based On A True Story) , which stars Eva Green and Emmanuelle Seigner and is shooting in Paris this month.
The film was co-scripted by Polanski with Olivier Assayas. Wassim Beji is producing. Lionsgate is handling the film internationally. The budget is around €10m and Belga has provided €500k.
Belga is also partnering on The Queen’s Corgi, nWave’s animated feature which will start production in Brussels before the end of the year.
Queen Corby will be nWave’s second film on which Belga Films Fund has raised...
Ambitious new financier Belga Films Fund, the Belgian tax shelter arm of the Belga Films group, has announced its latest investments and projects.
The fund, which will have collected over €10m through the tax shelter by the end of the year, is co-producing and co-financing Roman Polanski’s latest feature, D’après Une Histoire Vraie (Based On A True Story) , which stars Eva Green and Emmanuelle Seigner and is shooting in Paris this month.
The film was co-scripted by Polanski with Olivier Assayas. Wassim Beji is producing. Lionsgate is handling the film internationally. The budget is around €10m and Belga has provided €500k.
Belga is also partnering on The Queen’s Corgi, nWave’s animated feature which will start production in Brussels before the end of the year.
Queen Corby will be nWave’s second film on which Belga Films Fund has raised...
- 11/11/2016
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
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