Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
| Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | January 1, 2004 |
| Seat | August-Bebel-Str. 26-53 14482 Potsdam |
| management |
Kirsten Niehuus (Managing Director) Helge Jürgens (Managing Director) Christian Gaebler (Chairman of the Supervisory Board) |
| Number of employees | 45 |
| Branch | Film and media |
| Website | www.medienboard.de |
The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH is a state-owned company for film promotion and new media promotion of the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg and contact for film and media professionals in Germany's capital region. The Medienboard is responsible for the national and international presentation and profiling of the film and media location Berlin-Brandenburg, for current location information, the cross-border and cross-sector networking of the film and media industry and supports the settlement of film and media companies. As a media-related site project, the Medienboard promotes measures for the development, professionalization and presentation of the film and media location Berlin-Brandenburg.
history
The transnational GmbH was founded on January 1, 2004 with the merger of the film board and the media office of the two countries, bringing together film funding and location marketing for the first time nationwide in one house. It has a funding budget of around EUR 31.6 million per year. The investment banks of the federal states of Berlin ( IBB ) and Brandenburg ( ILB ) are half the shareholders .
From 2004 to 2010, Petra Müller was the managing director for location marketing , who succeeded Michael Schmid-Ospach as managing director of the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW on September 1, 2010 . From 2010 to 2015 Elmar Giglinger was the managing director of the location marketing division, and since 2017 the division has been called new media funding.
Business areas
Film funding
The Film Funding division , headed by Kirsten Niehuus since 2004 , has an annual budget of around EUR 26 million. The films sponsored by Medienboard include the Bollywood production Don - The King is back with Shah Rukh Khan , Inglourious Basterds by Quentin Tarantino , The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke , The Ghostwriter by Roman Polański , Between Worlds by Feo Aladag , Oh Boy by Jan-Ole Gerster , Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson , Victoria by Sebastian Schipper , Traumfrauen by Anika Decker , Fack ju Göhte 1 and 2 by Bora Drachtkin , Honig im Kopf , Keinohrhasen , Zweiohrküken and Conni & Co 2 by Til Schweiger and Toni Erdmann from Maren Ade .
German and international cinema films are funded in the categories development, production (feature, documentary, animation and short film as well as international co-productions) as well as distribution and distribution (for release in Germany). As one of the first German funding institutions, the Medienboard has been supporting the development and production of serial TV formats since 2015. With this promotion it is u. a. succeeded in bringing the internationally renowned US series Homeland to the capital region. The Medienboard funds are conditionally repayable loans and must be fully spent in the capital region. They can be combined with other grants.
New media promotion
The New Media Funding division (formerly location development) has been headed by Helge Jürgens since January 2016 and promotes the digital growth sectors in Berlin-Brandenburg. With the core of the new media promotion, the promotion of "innovative audiovisual content" and serial formats, the Medienboard supports the regional developer and producer scene and their projects. In 2017, the New Media funding supported projects in the fields of games, virtual reality, web, multiplatform and children's apps as well as innovative serial formats from entertainment, documentaries, factual and fiction with a total of around 2 million euros.
Once a year the Medienboard organizes the international media congress Media Convention Berlin together with the Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg and in cooperation with the re: publica .
Creative Europe Desk Berlin-Brandenburg
The Creative Europe Desk Berlin-Brandenburg, which is affiliated to the Medienboard, is one of four MEDIA information offices in Germany and an important point of contact for the industry in all questions about the Creative Europe program. Producers, distributors, cinema operators, festivals and other companies in the audiovisual sector can find information here about MEDIA funding and support with applications in Brussels. The MEDIA program is part of the EU program Creative Europe for the promotion of the creative and cultural industries in Europe.
Berlin Brandenburg Film Commission
As a department of the Medienboard, the Berlin Brandenburg Film Commission is on hand to provide advice and assistance to film and media makers who want to shoot in the capital region: The bbfc helps with the location search , arranges shooting permits and contacts to the regional film industry. In addition, the Film Commission has an extensive and constantly updated address and motif database for the film and media region Berlin-Brandenburg.
Meaning of the term
The term "Medienboard" is made up of the Latin loan word "Medien" and the English "Board", the latter here in the sense of "board" or in the figurative sense "board" or "committee". By merging a German and an English term in the same word, a term that is neither meaningful nor understandable in German or English has been created. The possible alternatives would have been "media board" or "media committee".