Tilskudd til audiovisuelle verk - regional

This grant is the regional audiovisual-works support administered by Vestnorsk filmsenter, the regional film centre for Western Norway based in Bergen (Georgernes Verft 12, 5011 Bergen; org. nr. 974332981). The centre describes its role as: "Vestnorsk filmsenter forvalter statlige og regionale tilskudd til produksjon og utvikling av kortfilm, dokumentar, spillefilm og serier, og til utvikling av spill." ("Vestnorsk filmsenter manages state and regional grants for the production and development of short film, documentary, feature film and series, and for the development of games.")

The support for audiovisual works is delivered through format-specific schemes published under the centre's Søk støtte section, including kortfilm, dokumentar, spillefilm og drama, samproduksjon and spill. All of these provide development and production support ( produksjons- og utviklingsstøtte ) for audiovisual works.

Eligibility, per the centre's guidelines and scheme pages: applicants for production support must be organised as a limited company ( aksjeselskap ) registered in the Norwegian business registry, with their address and main operations in Vestland or Møre og Romsdal, and with audiovisual production as the company's primary purpose. Development applicants must likewise be registered with address and main operations in those counties. Projects must satisfy the cultural test ( kulturtesten ) — the centre's pages state projects must meet "3 of 4" cultural-test criteria.

Application is made through the RegPortal online system. The guidelines state: "Søknader skal sendes inn via RegPortal." ("Applications must be submitted via RegPortal.") Applicants create a profile using bank-ID, and the daily manager or contact person must be approved by Vestnorsk filmsenter before an application can be submitted. The portal is at https://www.regportal.no.

On deadlines, the centre operates a set of ordinary annual application deadlines ( søknadsfrister ) with a processing time of up to about seven weeks, while applications for competency-building measures are assessed on a rolling basis: "Søknader innen kompetansehevende tiltak vurderes løpende." ("Applications within competency-raising measures are assessed on a rolling basis.") For production support to feature films and drama series, the scheme page notes that this is announced separately with its own deadlines: "Merk at produksjonstilskudd til spillefilm og dramaserier utlyses særskilt med egne søknadsfrister."

The centre's scheme pages show recent individual allocations ( Siste tildeling ) ranging from roughly 50,000 to 1,500,000 NOK across formats, but the pages do not state a single fixed minimum or maximum award for this regional support, so no per-scheme amount is recorded here. Contact for the centre is post@vestnorskfilm.no.