Filmaporto Funding Programme: Neves and Pascaud Grants
In 1906, Neves & Pascaud was the first company to present films to the public in Porto. It was also the entity responsible for the opening of at least four movie theaters, including the important Cinema Batalha in 1947.
António Neves was a local businessman, a symbol of our city’s vibrant industry and entrepreneurship. His French partner, Edmond Pascaud, came to Porto and brought with him the cinematographic knowledge he had acquired in Paris.
Filmaporto decided to create two scholarships to support film production and named them after these unique figures. Through these grants, we will finance, within a year, five projects made entirely in the city.
The Neves scholarship is open to artists, directors and producers living in the municipality of Oporto, while the Pascaud scholarship is for artists, directors and producers living outside the municipality.
The five grants, worth 20,000 euros each, will be awarded, through a competitive application process, to fiction and documentary films, series, experimental films and essays.
The 2nd open call for films for the monthly Filmaporto Sessions at the Batalha Centro de Cinema, dedicated to filmmakers and films produced in the municipality and region of Porto, is now open.
Applications are invited for film projects directed or produced by filmmakers or production organisations resident or based in Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia or Matosinhos, or projects shot in the city, completed more than a year ago and less than four years ago — which have not previously been presented in these three municipalities in sessions open to the public and which, at the time of application, are not scheduled to have a commercial premiere in Porto. Applications should be submitted by email in accordance with the open call guidelines.
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