30-11-2015

Poland Considers New Fund for Historic and Family Films

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    WARSAW: The National Development Council newly created by Polish President Andrzej Duda will make a decision on creating a new fund that would support big budget history costume and family productions by the end of December 2015.

    "As we all know, under the present conditions several films devoted to historical subjects that are significant to the national identity cannot be created, due too major budgets that surpass the possibilities of the Polish Film Institute,” said Jacek Bromski, a Polish director, President of the Polish Filmmakers Association, and member of the National Development Council.

    Bromski is representing the film industry at the Council's "Culture, national identity and historical policy" section that will examine the project of the new fund and vote on it by the end of the month.

    "I think that it would be especially valuable if the Ministry of Culture or The President's Office could be persuaded to create an additional fund that would prioritize historic cinema, so that this priority would be financed not from the sources that finance the Polish Film Institute, which come from the tax payers, but straight from the federal budget," Magdalena Sroka, the Director of Polish Film Institute, said.

    The Council is also planning to tackle the growing problem of piracy and introducing the EU legislation on that issue that had not been implemented during the term of the previous government.