Central German media funding

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH
legal form	Limited Liability Company (GmbH)
Seat	Leipzig
Website	www.mdm-online.de

The Central German Media Promotion GmbH (MDM) is the regional film funding institution of the country Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia , based in Leipzig .

history

The company was founded in January 1998 by the states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. The aim is to promote the economic development of the film and media industry in these federal states. In November 1998 Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and ZDF joined as additional partners.

advancement

Around 14 million euros annually are available for funding the areas of cinema and television film productions, young talent, screenwriting, multimedia, project development, distribution and other measures. The MDM allocation committee decides on the allocation of funds four times a year.

MDM Film Commission

The MDM Film Commission supports domestic and foreign production companies with filming in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. She forms the interface between filmmakers, regional service providers and municipalities, helps with the location search and filming permit procedures. Extensive and constantly updated address and motif databases for the region are provided online. In 2003 service points were opened in Thuringia (Erfurt) and Saxony (Dresden), and in 2013 in Saxony-Anhalt ( Halle ).

Selection of funded feature films

• When we were dreaming
• Bibi & Tina - The Film
• Bibi & Tina: bewitched!
• Stupid hat!
• Bornholmer Strasse
• Boxhagener Platz
• Carlos - the jackal
• Cloud Atlas
• The little ghost
• The last silence
• The white ribbon - a German children's story
• The Medicus
• The moon and other lovers
• The red cockatoo
• The tower
• The Reader
• The Adventures of Huck Finn
• The Book Thief
• The beloved sisters
• The corn island
• The Popess
• the silence after the shot
• Measuring the World
• Doctor Proctor's pup powder
• You promised
• A Russian summer
• Elementary particles
• Window to summer
• Frantz
• Goethe!
• Grand Budapest Hotel
• Inglourious Basterds
• Irina Palm
• Meager
• Warrior
• Lulu & Jimi
• Luther
• Milk forest
• Monuments Men - Unusual heroes
• Pettson and Findus - little tormentor, great friendship
• Sources of life
• Rico, Oskar and the deep shadows
• Rico, Oskar and the broken heart
• Ruby red
• Sapphire blue
• Schröder's wonderful world
• Schultze gets the blues
• Gunfire fear
• Gravity
• stereo
• Sushi in Suhl
• Tom Sawyer
• Vaya con Dios
• Our mothers, our fathers
• Whiskey with vodka
• Willenbrock
• Winter daughter
• Room 205

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Review of the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung: Handicrafts on the Oscar - Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
2. ^ MDM Online: Film Commission

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