Film Estonia

Estonian Film Institute opens a new cash-reabte scheme – Film Estonia.
The goal of EFI’s support scheme is to lure new foreign filmmakers and crews to film in Estonia.The new fund will be open to applications from legal entities registered in Estonia whose main area of activity is the production of audiovisual works and whose partner is a foreign film production company.

Film Estonia will allocate support for the production or post-production of full-length feature films, full-length animation films, short animation films, animation series, quality television series or documentary films.
The fund has established minimum limits for the budgets of projects they support – for example, a feature film must have a minimum budget of 1 million Euros to apply, a full-length ani-mation film must have a minimum budget of 2 million Euros and the other types of productions must have minimum budgets between 200,000 and 500,000 Eu-ros.

The new financial support is only paid out after the expenses made in Estonia are audited. The amount of support ranges from 20-30% of the expenses spent in Estonia and is dependent on the participation of Estonians in the creative team for the film project.

In 2016, the budget for Film Estonia is 500,000 Euros.

The first deadline for ap-plications is February 9th, then followed by March 29, May 24th and November 8th.

Support decisions are made within a month of receiving the application. The exact regulations of the new support scheme can be found at the website:

filmestonia.ee