The call for the production and circulation of Colombian films and the training of the audiovisual industry will provide incentives for 6,445 million distributed in various forms of support.
The Fund for Cinematographic Development was created by Law 814, known as the Cinema Law in 2003 and consists of a bank account that receives the monies collected through the parafiscal fee paid by exhibitors, distributors and producers, as a result of the exhibition of national and foreign cinematographic works in Colombia. In other words, it is a fund that feeds both on the movement of the sector and the public that goes to the movies: each ballot is a contribution to the fund.
Due to the closure of movie theaters due to the current situation, the projected collection figures for 2021 that would come to finance the call were reduced. As reported by the Ministry of Culture, in view of this situation a contribution of 5,000 million pesos was managed. Since its inception, the Cinema Law contemplates the possibility that the FDC receives contributions other than the parafiscal quota, this being the first time that it receives resources through this mechanism.
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“This measure is part of the ReactivARTE Commitment that favors the recovery and reactivation of the value chain of the audiovisual industry in the country. These resources favor the use of infrastructures, platforms and means of dissemination ”, said the Minister of Culture, Felipe Buitrago. For her part, Claudia Triana, Director of Proimmages Colombia, added that when talking about the FDC, it should be taken into account that the effort for its permanence is collective: “The narration of stories from different perspectives of the country, the public’s attendance at theaters, the decision to continue making films and explore new formats, are part of the FDC ”.
How does the FDC Call work?
In 2004, the National Council of Arts and Culture in Cinematography – CNACC-, defined that the delivery of FDC resources be made through an annual public call. The 2021 call includes 21 modalities and will deliver a total of 7,695 million pesos through the automatic Stimuli and Incentives by contest: the former support Colombian projects and films in the promotion, distribution and participation in meetings and markets, while the seconds support the different stages of audiovisual production, writing, development, production and post-production.
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Follow the news of El Espectador on Google NewsThe reading and evaluation of projects of the Incentives by competition is in charge of evaluating committees that suggest to the CNACC the projects that should receive incentives and each committee is made up of national and international specialists from different areas of filmmaking.
Thanks to the resources of the Fund for Cinematographic Development -FDC-, between 2004 and 2020 they have committed and delivered incentives by competition for approximately 148,000 million pesos to more than 1,400 projects and automatic stimuli for about 41,600 million pesos.