Dutch Film Fund announces Kaleidoscope Programme

Caleidoscoop offers new and experienced filmmakers an alternative financing route for fiction, non-fiction or hybrid films longer than 60 minutes.

The scheme focuses on films that stand out because of their urgency, courage and originality. The films are also groundbreaking in content and approach. The projects are assessed on a clear, consistent cinematographic concept and on the coherence between form, content and approach on a creative level and production business level. It is therefore important that the plan is supported by the entire team.

Funding Information

• Project development Kaleidoscope
  • Maximum €28,750 (including producer fee & overhead)
  • You request this contribution for the final phase of development focused on the artistic and productional elaboration of the film plan. With this contribution, you will be given the space to develop your long film using new working methods. This may include involving Heads of Department, making test recordings, designing a storyboard, polishing the scenario, rehearsals, location visits, world building and/or developing a production budget.
• Realization
  • From €300,000 to a maximum of €550,000 (including producer fee & overhead).
  • You request this contribution for the realization of a film production of at least 60 minutes.
  • The amount of the contribution depends on the category (fiction, non-fiction or hybrid) and the ambition level of the project. Please note that the requested budget must be realistic and appropriate for the type of project and the chosen category.
  • After the award, the Fund can make an additional contribution to the sustainability of production. This involves a contribution to the costs of the eco-manager up to an amount of € 3,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• A production company (a legal entity, not a sole proprietorship or general partnership), which has been established for at least two years in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a member state of the EU, EEA or Switzerland and which produces and exploits films and other audiovisual productions on a continuous basis. The production company is represented by a producer who, as majority producer, has been primarily responsible for the realisation and release of at least one independent, non-commissioned film production (long or short) in the Dutch professional film and television sector.
• When applying for the production of a hybrid documentary, they expect the producer to have experience in producing a long documentary (> 70 min.) and to have sufficient demonstrable experience in relation to the budget level being applied for.

Application Requirements

• Synopsis
• Scenario or alternative structures such as a skeleton script or storyboard
• Notes producer/writer/director/co-writer/script coach and if relevant other Heads of Department, main cast for a feature film or participating characters for a documentary. CVs of involved producer, writer and director
• Budget and financing plan
• Work plan with an approach according to the Caleidoscoop method, including a vision on the production budget in the development phase and the motivation for the intended low-budget method and planning (see Regulations and Protocols)
• Plan around positioning and release
• Agreements with key heads of department and any co-producer
• Viewing material
• Chamber of Commerce extract of applicant (not older than 12 months)

For more information, visit Dutch Film Fund.