Handbook of State Aid for Film ― Finance, Industries and Regulation

This book is an analysis of the specificities of public film funding on an international scale. It shows how public funding schemes add value to film-making and other audio-visual productions and provides a comprehensive analysis of today’s global challenges in the film industry such as industry change, digital transformation, and shifting audience tastes. Based on insights from fields such as cultural economics, media economics, media management and media governance studies, the authors illustrate how public spending shapes the financial fitness of national and international film industries. This highly informative book will help both scholars and practitioners in the film industry to understand the complexity of issues and the requirements necessary to preserve the social benefits of film as an important cultural good.

Paul Clemens Murschetz is Professor at Berlin University of Digital Sciences. He has been visiting senior lecturer for the University of Westminster’s School of Media, Arts and Design (Department of Journalism and Mass Communication) and W2-Professor at CBS-Cologne Business School GmbH. Paul holds an MA and PhD. in management from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Studies (1989/1992), an MSc. in media and communication studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1996), and a Habilitation from the Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria.

Roland Teichmann, LLM, is CEO of the Austrian Film Institute since 2004. Roland began his career in the Federal Economic Chamber. In 2001 he became general manager of the Association of the Audiovisual and Film Industry. Since then, he has held several leadership positions: board member of the Austrian Film Commission, advisory board member of the Association of Austrian Film Producers (aafp), Austrian representative of the International Producers Association (FIAPF), representative for Austria at EFAD (European Film Agency Directors), chairman of the advisory board of the Television Film Fund managed by the Austrian communication regulatory authority RTR and member of the European Film Academy (EFA). Roland is also national representative for Austria at Eurimages and used to teach film funding and financing at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Matthias Karmasin is full Professor and Chair for the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt in Austria. Further, he is corresponding member of the philosophic-historic class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAW) and Director of the Institute for Comparative Media and Communication Studies aligned to it. His research focuses on media accountability, media ethics, media management, political communication, and communication theory. He is editor and co-author of 30 books and more than 100 scientific research articles.