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TFL Audience Design Fund

TFL Audience Design Fund

The TFL Audience Design Fund aims at supporting the implementation of innovative audience development and outreach strategies at the moment of distribution.

QUICK FACTS

 € 45,000 grant combined with Audience Design Consultancies to reach, build and engage audiences through the implementation of innovative actions supporting the moments of sales and distribution. 


TARGET: international co-productions in post-production stage (feature, creative documentaries, animation, over 60 minutes). The Audience Design Fund is addressed to producers or sales agents established in a country participating in the MEDIA strand (*) presenting projects co-produced with at least one partner from a country not participating in the MEDIA strand. The film must have a strong potential in terms of creative promotional approach.

WHAT IS THE TFL AUDIENCE DESIGN FUND

The TFL Audience Design Fund aims at supporting films at distribution stage through the implementation of innovative audience engagement and outreach strategies. It is intended to support projects willing to explore new synergies between theatrical and digital distribution, to introduce innovative ideas to engage international audiences and to improve the worldwide circulation of films.

The AD Fund targets films presenting two different plans for distributing the picture, in different territories, one of which theatrical. In 2023, a total of 3 grants of € 45,000 each has been assigned to companies submitting an eligible film. The film release and distribution must be completed and reported by December 2024.
 

As an added value, the TFL AD Fund combines the grant with Audience Design Consultancies. The process includes 3 mandatory online sessions during which the film teams work with audience designers to create a strategy including the key goals and a series of actions to enhance the international promotion of the picture and its distribution across different territories. The consultancies go beyond the creative film marketing approach, using storytelling as a driving force to build communities, social and digital media outreach as well as off-line activities around the films. The strategy will cover different channels and devices for distribution across all relevant media.
 

The Fund has been created thanks to Creative Europe – MEDIA sub-programme support to International Co-production Funds


In the picture: a still from the supported project of 2021 WHETHER THE WEATHER IS FINE by Carlo Francisco Manatad. 
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LIST OF PROJECTS SUPPORTED OVER THE YEARS

2023

BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY by Jianjie Lin (CN/FR/DN)

KAMAY by Ilyas Yourish and Shahrokh Bikaraan (AF/BE/FR/DE)

ZE by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir (FR/MN/PT/NL)


2021

BASTARD The Legacy of a Criminal by Pepe Rovano (CL/IT/SE) - € 45.000

DAUGHTER OF RAGE by Laura Baumeister (NI/MX/NL/FR/DE) - € 45.000

WHETHER THE WEATHER IS FINE by Carlo Francisco Manatad (PH/FR/SG/ID/DE/QA) - € 45.000


2020

EL FATHER PLAYS HIMSELF by Mo Scarpelli (UK/CA/IT/VE) - € 45.000

THE SALT IN OUR WATERS by Rezwan Shahriar Sumit (BD/FR) - € 45.000

WHITE BUILDING by Kavich Neang (KH/FR/CN) - € 45.000


2019

CUBAN DANCER by Roberto Solinas (IT/CL/CA) - € 40.000

LA NUIT DES ROIS by Philippe Lacôte (FR/CI/CA) - € 40.000

MATERNAL by Maura Delpero (AR/IT) - € 40.000


2018

A LAND IMAGINED by Yeo Siew Hua (SG/FR/NL) - € 40.000

MADE IN BANGLADESH by Hossain Rubaiyat (FR/BD/DK/PT) - € 40.000

THE PLAY by Alejandro Fernandez Almendras (FR/CZ/CL/KR) - € 40.000

 

2017

BIRDS OF PASSAGE by Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallego (CO/MX/DK/FR) - € 40.000

TEL AVIV ON FIRE by Sameh Zoabi (LU/FR/IL/BE) - € 40.000

THE WOUND by John Trengove (ZA/DE/NL/FR) - € 40.000


2016

APPRENTICE by Boo Junfeng (SG/FR/DE/HK/QA) - € 40.000

FÉLICITÉ by Alain Gomis (FR/DE/BE/SN/LB) - € 40.000

JESÚS by Fernando Guzzoni (FR/CL/DE/CO/GR) - € 40.000


2015

EVA NO DUERME by Pablo Agüero (FR/AR/ES) - € 43.000

IN THE LAST DAYS OF THE CITY by Tamer El Said (EG/DE/AE/UK) - € 43.000


2014

MOUNTAIN by Yaelle Kayam (IL/DK) - € 43.000

Funds & Films Coordinator
Production and TFL Audience Design Fund advisor
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