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Awards 2009/2010

We are here to help creative and digital talent and companies by supporting their businesses, productions, increasing their international trade opportunities and making key financial investments in their projects.

2009/2010 Northwest Vision and Media Awards

1. Regional Attraction Fund (RAF) - RAF provides two separate strands of support. The Company Development strand provides grant support for high-growth companies looking to develop their infrastructure, to access new markets and to significantly expand the scope of their operations.

The Product Development strand provides recoupable grants for the development of both linear and interactive media content. This can include broadcast TV, computer games, electronic publishing, e-learning, mobile content and web-based applications.

A total of £363,850 has been granted to small and medium sized companies across the region, including 4 Manchester-based firms.

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2. Access to Film and Audience Development Fund (HAFAD) - The annual Heritage, Access to Film and Audience Development (HAFAD) fund was set up in 2005 to support a variety of film-related activities across the Northwest.

This year, twelve awards have been granted and the fund has taken a new approach by offering two of these to consortiums, enabling groups of organisations to work together to deliver a range of initiatives.

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3. The Digital Film Archive Fund (DFAF) - is a UK Film Council lottery fund managed by regional screen agency Northwest Vision and Media.

This year we awarded a second round of over £130,000 to organisations in the region in a bid to increase public access to regional screen heritage.

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4. Production Investment for Film and TV - This fund is for investment in key projects being filmed in the region, including film and long-running drama/ multiple episode television series. Priority will be given to indigenous production companies.

The fund offers assistance to companies with the production costs of feature films, and major broadcast projects which have substantive partnership funding, a clear route to market through the involvement of distributor and/or sales agent and the potential to generate significant value both for the applicant company and the regional production sector.

Production Investment for Film and TV is now closed.

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5. Digital and Media Skills Programme - Is a £2.8 million digital and skills programme being delivered by Northwest Vision and Media in partnership with Skillset and supported by Northwest Regional Development Agency.

This year we have recently awarded £300,000 worth of tenders as part of an ongoing skills programme.

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6. Northwest Regional Development Fund - Over £2.7 million of funding from the Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) programme has been approved for Northwest Vision and Media, following over £3m announced by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) in April.

This will help to support our recently expanded role as a cluster organisation for the creative and digital sector in the region and deliver a programme of activity for their industries to 2012.

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PREVIOUS GRANTS AND AWARDS

7. Merseyside Film and Television Fund - Investments ranging from £15,000 to £100,000 was made for up to 37.8% of a project's agreed development costs.

Examples:
Funding for a Liverpool-based company to shoot a taster tape for a new factual TV show, funded 62.8% by a broadcaster and 37.8% by the MFTVF.

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