Support of the film industry and film culture


Where
Spain
When
2016
Who
Institute of cinematography and audiovisual arts (icaa), an autonomous agency under the state secretariat for culture.
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Description of the policy/measure

Icaa's main activity is the design of cinematographic policy.聽to this end,聽various lines of aid are launched: grants聽for the amortization of films, for the production of short films and feature films, for the distribution of feature films and a series of european or ibero-american short films, for the participation of spanish films in film festivals and the holding of film festivals in spain.聽these competences extend throughout spanish territory, regardless of whether or not the autonomous communities have their own actions which include specific lines of aid.聽the international dimension is met in a twofold manner: on the one hand, distribution aid makes it possible to achieve a balance in film origin, which otherwise could very possibly be dominated by the us industry. although the recipients are spanish distributors, the producers or rights holders participate in the benefits. thanks to this policy, in 2014 (latest published data), of all the films exhibited in cinemas, 56.63% had their origin in the european union. the other focus of attention is that of international co-productions, encouraged especially through coproduction and partnership agreements between the agencies in charge of cinematographic policies, both bilaterally as well as in multilateral forums. in 2014, in spain, 216 feature films were produced, 42 of which were international co-productions.the aforesaid measures were originally not established for compliance with the 2005 cdc; however, the latter was indeed taken very much into account in the various amendments. in the latest regulatory amendment, in 2015, a 鈥渃ultural certificate鈥 has been incorporated, issued by the institute of cinematography itself, and is a requisite to be able to obtain aid. in granting the certificate, it is taken into account that the film either 鈥渁llows for a better knowledge of cultural, social, religious, ethnic, philosophical or anthropological diversity, or that it 鈥渋s aimed specifically at聽children or young people聽

Results achieved

The results expected coincide with the above mentioned "key objectives of the measure", developped through the described lines of aid and two other instruments. the first one is聽an indirect line of aid, through an agreement with an official credit institute, which facilitates the lowering of interest on loans for film production. in addition, the icaa is a founding member of a reciprocal guarantee company, together with the audiovisual producers rights management entity. the icaa holds a 48% stake in the company. the funds are allocated to grant聽guarantees for project realization. since the time of its founding, it has granted 240 million euros in guarantees.聽聽

Financial resources allocated to the policy

In 2015, 聽 聽 50.22 million 鈧.in 2014, 聽 聽 61.80 million 鈧琲n 2013, 聽 聽 36.90 million 鈧

Evaluation of the policy/measure

The system of public aids is one of the pillars for the existence of the spanish production. the results of the evaluation are mostly quantitative, and only take their聽meaning making a comparision between different periods.聽as said, the aim of the complex aid system is to facilitate the creation, production, distribution and exhibition of films, that is, all of the elements which make up their value chain. also taken into account is their contiribution to technological progress, economic development and job creation.it is seen that in the absence of such aid, market economy laws would do away with activity in this sector, given that from an industrial perspective is quite fragil and highly fragmented.in 2014 were produced 216 featured films, 42 of which were international co-production. this last are one of the focus of attention, encouraged especially through coproduction and partnership agreements between the agencies in charge of cinematographic policies, both bilaterally as well as in multilateral forums.the icaa's yearbook includes all the figures regarding financing, exhibition of films (according of their countries of origin), box office, number of films exhibited and attendants distributed by regions, size and main features of the enterprises working in聽production, distribution and exhibition,聽international co-productions by countries聽etc...