The Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) is an initiative of International Film Festival Rotterdam that provides grants to remarkable cinema projects in various stages of completion. Please follow the links below to find out more about the HBF.
The Hubert Bals Fund is designed to bring remarkable or urgent feature films by innovative and talented filmmakers from developing countries closer to completion. Here is a complete description of what the HBF does.
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The HBF gives financial support twice a year. Application deadlines are 1 March and 1 August. Find out more about the official regulations and entry forms.
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Find here the HBF Harvest for IFFR 2013.
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All the past HBF selections and Harvests in a row may be found here.
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In order to stimulate Dutch producers to get involved in international co-productions, and to support the Hubert Bals Fund projects in the stage of actual production as well, the Netherlands Film Fund (Nederlandse Filmfonds) and the HBF set up the Hubert Bals Fund Plus.
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The HBF has joined forces with IFFR's CineMart and Binger Filmlab in organising a special coaching trajectory for HBF-supported projects called Boost!
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Each year, the Dioraphte Award (€10.000) is conferred upon the Hubert Bals Fund-supported film with the highest votes from the festival audience.
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The Cinema Mondial Tour brings fiction films and documentaries supported by the Hubert Bals Fund and the IDFA Fund to film festivals throughout Africa.
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The Fund invites a different director each year to freely interpret his or her relationship with the HBF and IFFR in a one-minute leader.
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The Hubert Bals Fund has changed quite a number of filmmakers' careers, or lives even, around the world. IFFR focuses on a number of those filmmakers in a new series of interviews in which they look back on the ripple effects that the Hubert Bals Fund has had on their careers. We present you: the impact of the Hubert Bals Fund on...
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