[ISEA94] Institutional Presentation: Juha Samola — AVEK and the support of audiovisual culture in Finland

Institutional Presentation Statement

Intro

The Promotion Center for Audiovisual Culture AVEK was founded in 1987. Its duty is to promote Finnish film, TV and video production and culture by redistributing the copyright income (the so-called blank tape levy) to artists’ audiovisual productions.
The support program of AVEK is divided into three sections:
– to subsidize audiovisual production and distribution;
– to support the advanced studies of professionals working in the fields of film, TV, video and media art; and
– to support the audiovisual culture in general: to fund research, publications, festivals and other activities.
The major part of the annually allotted support, about 80%, has been directed to production and distribution. The sections of education and audiovisual culture have
received about 10% each. During the season1993/94 the total amount of the support was FIM 14 million.

  • Juha Samola, AVEK, Finland

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