Film- und Medienstiftung NRW

Film und Medien Stiftung NRW➝Media Region NRW➝Media Branches NRW➝Film

NRW offers optimum conditions for every film production – whether it is for international cinema with star casts or ambitious auteur cinema, large-scale narrative cinema as well as for documentaries and animated films. Specialised, modern infrastructures and strong creative networks guarantee every film project in NRW the right partners for the complete whole production process. The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW is on hand as a reliable partner for the filmmakers when it comes to financing and strategic collaboration.

Facts and figures

one of the financially strongest regional film funds with an average funding volume of over 35 million euros
Corona support programmes of the State of NRW: 15 million euros for NRW cinema operators, 21 million euros for cross-state default funds for film and television productions
first-class service providers for production and postproduction
highly qualified personnel
one of the largest, state-of-the-art film and TV studios in Europe
large variety of unusual shooting locations
award-winning and commercially successful productions for the cinema
the largest number of cinema screens in Germany
Film Festival Cologne, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Cologne Film Tradeshow, Film & Cinema Conference NRW, Duisburg Film Week, International Women‘s Film Festival, KinoFilmFest Lünen, Documentary Day NRW, German Camera Award

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Film in NRW
Funding of the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW

Michael Weber

Managing Director The Match Factory

We create synergies between our sales company & Match Factory Productions for the production & international distribution of outstanding European arthouse cinema. Projects like "The Traitor" were partly shot in Cologne and sold internationally, with the Film- und Medienstiftung as a reliable partner.

Stefan Schneider

Management/Producer Gruppe|5 Filmproduktion GmbH

It's thanks to the Filmstiftung NRW that there is now a production landscape here which can easily be compared with every other region in Germany. With each day, I always look forward each day to producing new films here with all of the wonderful skilled people.

Claudia Steffen

Managing Director Pandora Film Produktion

We are located in the middle of Europe in NRW – therefore, we have an integrative style of working and are always curious about the new. This is a strong inspiration for continuing to make great cinema. We want to keep finding nd holding on to our audience here and also tell diverse stories together with the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW.

Melanie Andernach

Managing Director MADE IN GERMANY Filmproduktion

NRW supported me from the very beginning in my young career as a producer: first the ifs internationale filmschule köln, then the AV-Gründerzentrum and now the Filmstiftung NRW.

Wim Wenders

Director and Artist

North Rhine-Westphalia has a sensational treasure trove of locations. There are outstanding film technicians and crews. Each year, the Wim Wenders Foundation joins forces with the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW to award a scholarship to a young filmmaker. Innovative filmmaking therefore not only has tradition, but also foresight in NRW.

Tom Tykwer

Director

Making films in NRW means for me now: an evolved, comprehensive competence in all departments .... Many-faceted, contradictory and consequently interesting images of Germany .... The readiness to take artistic risks, face creative challenges .... and good blood sausage.

Ron Howard

Director, Producer, Author and Actor

We had a very successful shoot in Germany and much of it was due to the fantastic crew that Action Concept put together and the prep that they guided us through. I very much look forward to filming in Germany again sometime in the near future.

Ari Folman

Director

A great land for filmmaking.

Jim Jarmusch

Director and Artist

Most personally, I want to thank all the amazing members of our crew and production for all their hard work, their invaluable contributions, and their incredible spirits. I will deeply miss working together with all these truly wonderful collaborators.

Sönke Wortmann

CEO Little Shark Entertainment

In the last decades a highly competitive film and media industry with a unique profile has developed in NRW.

Wolfgang Groos

Director

NRW is more varied than any other region in Germany. As a consequence, I am constantly coming across extraordinary shooting locations. I think, though, that the special thing about shooting in NRW is also the people who live here. I have never heard of a complete film crew being provided with barbeque sausages by a local resident at half past two in the middle of the night. But I've experienced this in NRW.

Bettina Brokemper

CEO Heimatfilm

My decision about location was made according to two principles: the patriotic local anthem sung by the Höhner, Dat Hätz vun de Welt, jo dat es Kölle (“Cologne is the heart of the world”, which I am quite happy to apply to the whole of NRW), and the application to film of Article 3 of the Cologne “constitution”: Et hätt noch immer jot jejange “Things have always turned out OK”. No film would ever be made without this basic conviction.

Martin Moszkowicz

Chairman of the Board of Constantin Film AG

In recent years, NRW has become considerably more attractive as a media location. The Filmstiftung NRW has played a key role in this development. We, and our productions, are always happy to come to North Rhine-Westphalia.

Stefan Arndt

CEO X Filme Creative Pool

An outstanding studio infrastructure, unusual locations and highly qualified filmmakers mark NRW out as being an important element in the German film landscape. Our successful production of "Babylon Berlin" and our new series "Wild Republic" would be inconceivable without the support coming from the Filmstiftung NRW, and, ultimately, that applies to all of X-Filme - none of this would be possible without NRW.

Regina Ziegler

CEO Zieglerfilm

Producing in NRW – often it used to be pure risk, but these days it is almost always sheer pleasure. The structures that have grown here in the last decades, most having been planted and tended by the Filmstiftung – that is what you could call a success story.

Jonas Katzenstein

Producer augenschein Filmproduktion

The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, major broadcasters, first-class film schools, and funding for up-and-coming filmmakers unlike any other – if we hadn't been born here, we would have had to move here …

Peter Thorwarth

Director

It is now 10 years since I moved back to NRW. A very fulfilling and productive time for me. The unpretentiousness of the region and its people is not merely a cliché, but a great inspiration for my work.

Anita Elsani

Managing Director Elsani & Neary Media

The proximity to the various national borders, diverse landscapes and varied architecture, attractive film studios and an excellent postproduction and services infrastructure provide the best conditions.