Coronavirus unsurprisingly causes 2020 cinema attendance in Estonia to fall dramatically, but Estonian films still prove popular amongst local audiences.
| SUPPORT CATEGORY | SUPPORT LIMIT € |
| SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT (feature film, full-length animation) | 10 000 |
| FEATURE FILM | |
| Development | 35 000 |
| Production | 700 000 |
| TV MINI-SERIES | |
| Development | 60 000 |
| DOCUMENTARY FILM | |
| Development | 15 000 |
| Production | 100 000 |
| ANIMATION FILM | |
| Short film development | 10 000 |
| Short film production | 280 000 |
| Feature-length development | 30 000 |
| Feature-length production | 800 000 |
| SHORT FICTION FILM | |
| Production | 30 000 |
| MINORITY CO-PRODUCTION | |
| Production | According to the budgetary possibilities |
| ESTONIAN DISTRIBUTION | |
| Feature film | 14 000 |
| Feature film (minority co-production) | 6 000 |
| Feature documentary | 3 000 |
| Collection of short films | 3 000 |
| Subtitles for persons who are hard-of-hearing | 2 500 |
| Audio-descriptions for the visually impaired | 2 500 |
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“A Winner is Seen at the Start” wins the 2021 edition of When East Meets West
The Kazakh project “A Winner is seen at the Start” is the winner of the 5.000 EUR Film Center Serbia Award at the 11th edition of When East Meets West. The debut film of the writer-director Zhannat Alshanova is produced by Yevgeniya Moreva for Almaty-based Steppe by Steppe. The story follows 19-year-old Mila, who joins an experimental swimming school, but after the death of a teammate, a series of revelations come to light. The film also received the Pop Up Film Residency Award, and Alshanova was also crowned with the European Women’s Audiovisual Network Award for the Best Woman Director, which was given out for the fifth year in a row at WEMW.
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