The first change under the new audiovisual law is that the State
Fund for the Support and Development of Czech Cinematography
is no longer a part of the Ministry of Culture.
The State Fund cinema is now
a new separate legal entity,
The State Fund for Cinematography has
been established under a separate law,
which includes the methods of
financing and the criteria for support.
The Act and the Fund also specify the
way fiscal initiatives are supported.
The Fund is an independent institution
with its own legal existence.
The role of the Ministry of Culture is only that the
Minister shall appoint and remove the director of the fund,
but this does not in any way
impact on the work of the Fund,
which alone decides how, when and to
whom any amount of money will be given.
At the same time the Ministry of Culture has no impact
on the manner in which incentives are distributed.
All this system, is described in the Law.
At the same time we have a new
organisation which is part of the fund,
the so-called experts who prepared the
analysis of each individual project.
These analyzes are not decisive. 
What is conclusive is the decision of the Fund.
We also have a new committee that
controls the overall management of the Fund
and is composed of the contributors to the Fund
these are the tax on cinema tickets
which makes 1% of each ticket,
2% of the proceeds of any commercial advertising on
television and 1% of cable and satellite, and 0.5 % of the VoD.
The film community has been
waiting for the law for 20 years.
I worked at the Ministry of Culture eight years
and during this time I prepared the
bill three times in different variants.
Only the third option passed
the 19th December, 2012.
The filmmakers are quite pleased that we have a law
compatible with the European
Convention, and we can say "modern".
On the basis of this Act, the Board of the Fund
can define the short-term and long-term approach.
In the long-term the concept
is now to re-engage in research,
according to which the Council
will consider other projects.
The main priority of the Council is to stimulate the
production of fewer projects supported by with larger amounts.
The State Fund also gives the film industry fiscal incentives
and it is necessary to add that from 2010 to last year's budget
the amount for incentives was 300 million
Czech crowns, which is very little.
The capacity of the Czech film
industry is 800 million Czech crowns.
This year and next year we should reach 500 million,
which has now been seen to have a positive impact
on film production in the Czech Republic as it has bought
back large projects to the country, even studio films.
There are a very large number of projects, that’s why
we currently can allow only 7 percent instead of twenty,
but we expect that over the year this will be compensated
for and it will reach 20 percent of the fiscal incentives,
so the producer will leave from here
completely satisfied, with twenty percent.
