Cash Rebate
“Film in Moldova” aims to encourage foreign film and TV productions to discover Moldova as an emerging filming destination. The purpose of this program is to promote Moldova as a potential filming location for foreign productions and encourage these productions to explore the country.
Who can apply?
When to apply?
Financial support amount?
Minimum investment quotas?
- Music video 15 000 euro
- TV broadcasts/shows 50 000 euro
- Short fiction film30 000 euro
- Animated feature film200 000 euro
- Animated short film20 000 euro
- Feature fiction film100 000 euro
- Reality show50 000 euro
- Cartoon series100 000 euro
- TV series (one episode)15 000 euro
- Advertisement15 000 euro
- A feature documentary film25 000 euro
- A short documentary film5 000 euro
- A multimedia product based on narrative15 000 euro
Application file contents?
- Financial support request application
- General data about the project
- Producer's note
- Director's vision
- Script
- Detailed synopsis
- Distribution strategy, accompanied by supporting documents
- Production plan of the film or audiovisual work
- Estimated expense plan, detailed by category, specifying taxes and fees
- Affidavit on the lack of affiliation with a foreign producer
- Cooperation agreement between the local producer and the foreign producer
- List of actors, writers and creative team
- Proof of file examination fee payment
File submission procedure:
| 1 Submission of the application file (Minimum 25 days before production) | 2 Forwarding the file to the Council (5 days) | 3 Examination of the file (20 days) | 4 Decision is sent to the beneficiary (maximum 5 days) |
National Center of Cinematography:
| Signs the certificate | Issues the qualification certificate |
Production period of maximum 3 years
| 5 Submission of the final file and audit report (Minimum 60 days after production is finished) | 6 CNC sends the request to the Ministry of Finance (10 days) | 7 The Ministry of Finance makes the transfer (60 days) |
Cash Rebate Council
Valentina IUSUPHODJAEV
President, Director of the National Center for Cinematography.
- Editor at Radio Moldova
- Distributor, assistant director, and literary secretary at Profilm Company
- Producer at Brio Film
- Director of the National Center for Cinematography
Orest DABIJA
Member of the Audiovisual Council.
Head of the Arts, Creative Industries, and International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Culture.
- University lecturer.
- Chairman of the board of directors for “Moldova-Film” S.A. and “Circus” S.A.
- National coordinator of the Creative Europe Office, Chișinău.
Adriana DEREVICI
Senior Consultant at the Arts and Creative Industries Department, Ministry of Culture.
Assistant lecturer, Faculty of Fine Arts, USM.
- Member of the CNC Council (2018-2020, 2021-present).
Olga CASIANOVA
Principal Consultant at the Finance Section for Education, Culture, and Research, Ministry of Finance.
Sergiu SCOBIOALĂ
Film and television producer.
- Producer at Jurnal TV.
- General Producer at the Realitatea Media Group.
- Over 15 TV formats, 2 series, and 2 documentaries.
Veaceslav REABCINSCHII
Director of the Center for Cultural Policies, PhD in Sociology, University Lecturer.
- Director of the “Luceafărul” Theater (1994-1997) and “Eugene Ionesco” Theater (1998-2001).
- Author of 30+ articles and 4 books on cultural policies.
- Lecturer at AMTAP (since 2014).
Ana STAMATI
Senior Specialist at the Investment Department, Investment Agency.
4 years in international relations and economic diplomacy.