Filipino filmmakers can now get travel assistance from FDCP

Good news for aspiring filmmakers who want to showcase their films internationally! The Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) came up with a new travel assistance program for local film producers who will compete or exhibit abroad.

TRAVEL ASSISTANCE BY FDCP. Filipino filmmakers can now get help with new travel assistance program. Image grabbed from interaksyon.com

As per Inquirer’s report, FDCP Chair Liza Diño said that the new program will standardize the incentive scheme, so qualified filmmakers can get support from the agency. “The FDCP earlier identified the festivals on its priority list, but aid was given to the same people who requested for it,” Diño said.

Inquirer also enumerated the inclusions of the said travel assistance program. These are as follows:

• A full-length film that is part of the main competition under the category, Competitive Feature Film Festivals, can avail of airfare for two persons (the filmmaker, actor or a member of production staff), their hotel accommodation for three days and two nights at a partner hotel and a per diem for three days ($50 or $70/day depending on the country).
• A movie for exhibition/screening is entitled to airfare for one person.
• A competing short film is entitled to airfare for one person (the filmmaker, actor or a member of production staff), as well as hotel accommodation for three days at a partner hotel.
• A short film that is up for exhibition will get financial assistance in the amount of not more than $500.
• Full-length projects competing in the Specialized Feature Film Festivals category will be entitled to airfare for one person and hotel accommodation for three days. The same will be accorded to competing documentary films and short films.
• Full-length films that will be up for screening/exhibition will get airfare for one person.
• For the Noncompetitive Feature Film Festivals category, full-length films are entitled to airfare for one person.
• Short films in competition can avail of airfare for one person as well as hotel accommodation for three days.
• For the Documentary and Short Film Festivals category, competing films can avail of airfare for one person as well as hotel accommodation for three days, while those for exhibition are entitled to financial assistance in the amount of not more than $500.
• A film production could avail of travel assistance for a maximum of two festivals per year.

The said travel assistance program is set to be launched this October 2016.

 

Source: Inquirer.net, Spot.ph