With NEST, MOIN Film Fund has been breaking new ground in development funding for over a year. Time to take stock: since the programme began in 2024, almost three million euros have been invested in the development of film ideas. That's more than twice as much as in the same period last year.
Introduced in January 2024, tested in March and launched regularly in June 2024: since last year, the MOIN Film Fund has invested €2.95 million in the development of new film material, including ideas from North German writers such as Detlev Buck, Kim Frank, Natja Brunckhorst and Kilian Riedhof. In NEST Space, the core programme of the new development funding, 47 ideas were supported with an average of more than 58,000 euros per project.
For comparison: In 2023, this sum was around €26,000 per project under the old funding structure.
Helge Albers, CEO of MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein: "NEST is a real game changer in our funding programme and I would like to thank our Supervisory Board, Dr Carsten Brosda and the great team at MOIN Film Fund for implementing it. Around 100 submissions per application round show very clearly that there is a need for new approaches to film development. We have created a programme that focuses on human, creative collaboration in the age of AI. With NEST, we encourage Script Writers to take as many creative risks as possible at an early stage and provide appropriate financial support for the development process. But one of the most exciting effects of NEST is only gradually becoming visible: the community of former NEST participants, which is involved in the selection of future projects and is perhaps the most powerful resource we can give the industry in terms of development support."
More about the NEST
NEST is aimed at established Script Writers and Executive Producers of feature films, series, animation projects, documentaries and XR projects as well as talented individuals. At the heart of the programme is the NEST Space: a five-day working week at the Baltic Sea in Schleswig-Holstein, where the selected Script Writers work collaboratively on their project ideas together with the Le Groupe Ouest initiative. The NEST tools are then available as financial support, with which the funding amount can reach up to 150,000 euros depending on the type of project. With funding in the NEST Space, Script Writers and Executive Producers automatically become part of the NEST community: a growing pool of creative people who remain in constant dialogue and are involved in the selection of future NEST projects. Segment Producer Paulina Toenne is now responsible for community management at MOIN.
As an alternative to NEST Space, NEST Classic funding can be applied for. The projects selected for this receive a one-off basic grant of 7,500 euros.
Since last year, 28 projects have received NEST Classic funding and 47 projects have been funded in NEST Space.
Anastomosis (Innovative) by Tom Lane
Anela & Silan (feature film) by Tamara Denić
Barrikadentage (Documentary) by Björn Warns
Bourgeois Paranoia (feature film) by Lukas Nathrath and Sebastian Jakob Doppelbauer
Chemnitz judgement (series) by Ali Hakim, Max König and Sandra Müller
Cutting Shadows (feature film) by Barbara Kloos and Eibe Maleen Krebs
The procrastinator (feature film) by Anja Gurres and Manuel Ostwald
Memories of the Now (feature film) by Friedrich Tiedtke and Stefanie Reinsperger
Escape Velocity (Innovative) by Radoš Vujaklija
War and Peace (feature film) by Leyla Yenirce and Theresa George
Furchtbar Göse (feature film) by Gregor Eisenbeiß and Sarah M. Kempen
Game Boy (series) by Greta Benkelmann, Lennard Eberlein and Till Lucas
Hello, neobiota! (series) by Ceylan Beyoğlu
Small Gifts (feature film) by Natja Brunckhorst
Lord of St Pauli (series) by Ipek Zübert
Realitree (series) by Antonia Jungwirth and Yun Huang
Roma (feature film) by Milena Aboyan
See you soon (Documentary) by Martin Prinoth and Martina Mahlknecht
Sirocco (feature film) by Ilya Povolotsky
SOL (animation / feature film) by Su-Jin Song
Atonement (feature film) by Marc Brummund
The hero within (feature film) by Aghabalaghi and Shahab Habibi
The NGO (feature film) by Emanuel Tessema and Merle Grimme
The Otherlings (feature film) by Sinem Sakaoglu
The Smell of Summer Rain (Innovative) by Denise Koch
The Strange Grimm (series) by Florens Huhn
Tough Cookies (The Tough Ones) (feature film) by Toby Chlosta
Tschüss Schrank (series) by Zohar Dvir
Urania, Urania (series) by Hilke Rönnfeldt
Alaska & Canada (series) by Bineta Hansen and Kerstin Polte
Believe (series) by Maritza Grass, Saskia Benter Ortega and Vincent Edusei
Bering Strait (Documentary) by Nastia Korkia
Chickenstreet (series) Ali Hakim, Max König and Lars Becker
The (for now) last North Sea thriller (series) by Martin-Oliver Czaja and Wilke Könken
The real north (series) by Hanna Plaß
The Climate Express/ Chancellor on Ice (series) by Momo Sinner, Markus Mayr
Dom (series) by Christina Reuter
Dünya Sevgi Devrim (series) by Asli Özarslan and Claudia Schaefer
Jessica (feature film) by Esther Preussler and Jonas Rothlaender
Lucky Carl (animation) by Christoph Lauenstein
Rendsburg Royals (series) by Fabienne Hurst
Scratching The Surface (Innovative) by Alexander Mettin and Wiktor Filip Gacparski
Shtick (series) by Anna Werner
Streetball (feature film) by Sékou Neblett
Talent (feature film) by Marian Freistühler
The Ship Camp (feature film) by Malika Musaeva
Z.U.P.E.R. (series) by Jana Forkel
Being held (series) by Cécil Joyce Röski
Blue House (feature film) by Sarah Claire Wray
Germany e.V. (series) by Milan Skrobanek
God is trans* (feature film) by Julz Ritschel
It's Fictional (feature film) by Margret Schepers and Ulrike Grote
Knut, Bruno, Panda (feature film) by Claudia Tuyết Scheffel
Minzi Monster (animation) by Andrea Deppert
Rewind (feature film) by Paula Lichte
Röstfest (feature film) by Senem Göcmen
See the World for free (feature film) by Maximilian Villwock
Seaweed Currents / Currents of Kelp (Documentary) by Katharina Pethke
Show me your Soul (feature film) by Maike Rasch and Nadine Lewerenz
X (feature film) by Kim Frank
The Girls of Kibera (Documentary) by Francisco Grimaldi
The Origin of Blindness (Innovative) by Emilia Gozzano
Well, that's it then. (series) by Linus Liyas
Unter Palmen aus Stahl (feature film) by Detlev Buck
War Tourist (feature film) by Astrid Ströher and Kilian Riedhof
There outside (feature film) by Julia Roesler and Silke Merzhäuser
Echoes of the Deep (Innovative) by Johannes Fuchs and Kassandra Huynh
Grieving Topography (Documentary) Avril Meehan and Seda Kaçak
Come on (feature film) by Eléna Weiss and Sophie Dittmer
Marie (feature film) by Constantin Hatz
The Anthem of Invisible Borders (feature film) by Amirali Navaee
The Bride Price (feature film) by Sophia Ayissi
TOFANA (feature film) by Ronja Lauderbach
Tricky Area (series) by Johannes Betz
Your perfect match (feature film) by Katharina Sporrer
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