Information about support

• Types of receipt of support

  A “foreign film” within the meaning of this programme shall be a film project which is partially or fully implemented in the territory of Latvia and which is brought into practice as a service (or a joint-production) by film producers registered in accordance with the procedure laid down in laws and regulations.

• Criteria for granting support

  Applicants for support must comply with Cabinet Regulation No. 173 “Procedure for Granting State Budget Co-financing for the Production of Foreign Films in Latvia”.

  Procedure for Granting State Budget Co-financing for the Production of Foreign Films in Latvia.

• Process

  In order to grant the state budget co-financing for the filming of foreign films in Latvia, the Agency shall, twice a calendar year, organise an open tender in project application selection rounds. In each selection round, the Agency shall take a decision on granting the co-financing and conclusion of the contract or on inclusion of a project application in the application reserve list, or on refusal to conclude the co-financing contract.

  In the selection round, project applications should be submitted within one month of its announcement.

  1. Project application layout:
     1. The project application shall be drawn up in printed form in the Latvian language (Annex 1 to the present Regulations).
     2. The film screenplay may be submitted in the Latvian, English or Russian languages.
     3. If any of the documents contained in the project application is in a foreign language, it shall be accompanied by the project applicant’s responsible official’s certified (text “Translation correct”, date, signature and signature transcript) translation into Latvian or a written summary-overview of the document contents. This provision shall not apply to a film’s screenplay in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 15.2 of the Regulations.
     4. The project application documents shall be clearly legible, without corrections, in order to avoid any doubts and misunderstandings as regards words and numbers, and without insertions, deletions, or mathematical errors.
  2. A project application shall be submitted within the specified deadline in one of the following ways:
     1. in the form of an electronic document to be sent to the e-mail address pasts@liaa.gov.lv in accordance with the laws and regulations regarding the drawing up and handling of electronic documents (the document shall be signed with a secure electronic signature);
     2. in the form of an electronic document on the National Platform for Business Development www.business.gov.lv.
  3. The accompanying documents of a project application shall be submitted in accordance with Annex 2 to the present Regulations.

• Recipient of the support

  A project for the tender may be submitted by micro, small, medium and large enterprises in accordance with Article 2(24) of and Annex 1 to Commission Regulation (EU) No. 651/2014 of 17 June 2014, declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty (hereinafter referred to as “Commission Regulation No. 651/2014”), which have been registered as film producers in accordance with the procedures laid down in laws and regulations and have entered into a contract regarding the intent to film a film in Latvia with a film producer registered in the Register of Latvian Film Producers and the Commercial Register of Latvia for at least 24 months before the submission of the project.

• Non-supported Sectors

  Applicants for support must comply with Cabinet Regulation No. 173 “Procedure for Granting State Budget Co-financing for the Production of Foreign Films in Latvia”.

• Documentation

  Cabinet Regulation No.

• Total funding of the event

  The total co-financing of the tender consists of the Agency’s planned state budget financing of 2022 amounting to EUR 793 773 (seven hundred and ninety-three thousand, seven hundred and seventy-three euros). The financing of the tender may be increased if additional co-financing is granted from the state budget of the respective year for the filming of foreign films in Latvia.

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