FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF Bayern) is a company whose goal is to promote media in

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, Germany. The fund has its headquarters in

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Mission and aim

Since its founding in 1996, FFF Bayern has had the task of carrying out quantitative and high-quality film funding in Bavaria as well as additional services for the film industry. Its aim is to create and develop a powerful and competitive film and television industry in the state.

History

On 1 March 1996, the fund was founded at the Bavarian Film Center Geiselgasteig. The president and CEO at the time was Herbert Huber and his deputy was Klaus Schaefer. The Chairman of the Board was Bavarian Minister of Culture Hans Zehetmair. In 1999, the

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took over the responsibility for the fund and Minister of State

Erwin Huber Erwin Huber (born 26 July 1946) is a German politician. He was chairman of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria from 2007 to 2008. Early life Erwin Huber was born in Reisbach in the district of Dingolfing-Landau, Bavaria. He attended elementa ...

became chairman of the FFF. In that year, the fund participated for the first time in the Medientage München (Munich Media Days). Since 1999, FFF awards prizes at the ''Dokumentarfilmfestival München'' (Documentary Film Festival Munich) and the ''Regenburger Kurzfilmwoche'' (Regensburger Short Film Week). To assist in the financing of film productions, HypoVereinsbank, the

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, Bankhaus Reuschel & Co., and the LfA Förderbank Bayern founded the Bavarian Bank Fund (BBF) in 2000. In 2003, the first film agreement was signed in

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between the regional Canadian film funding

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and the FFF. In 2005, FFF Bayern presented for the first time its award for film journalism at

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. Since 2009, FFF Bayern has supported the introduction of digital technology in film productions and in film projection in theaters. The fund also promotes culturally and educationally sophisticated computer games.

Shareholders

The shareholders of the fund are the

Free State of Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

, the ''Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue MedienBavarian'' (Regulatory Authority for new Media), the

Bayerischer Rundfunk Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; "Bavarian Broadcasting") is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, capital city of the Free State of Bavaria in Germany. BR is a member organization of the ARD consortium of public broadcas ...

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, the private broadcaster

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, and

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References

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* {{Authority control Film organisations in Germany Mass media in Bavaria Television in Germany 1996 establishments in Germany Companies based in Munich