The Austrian Film Commission (AFC) was founded in 1986 and is an organisation financed by public funds with the aim of promoting Austrian film abroad.
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As an agency that supports and promotes export the AFC is a point of contact, advice and service provision for the industry at a national and international level. The AFC advises Austrian producers and directors who are planning to take part in international film festivals and operate in international markets on the development of their promotion and sales strategies, and takes on communications and administration for the festivals. It is in constant contact with festival directors and selectors, world businesses, buyers and lenders, and keeps the media informed about current film productions.
The AFC represents Austria in the network of European film organisations for the worldwide advertisement of European film, the European Film Promotion. In this capacity every year it selects the Austrian candidate for the award of the "Shooting Star" for best young actor presented at the Berlinale. Also, a ten-person jury of the AFC selects every year the Austrian film that will be submitted for the nomination process for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.[1]
The AFC represents the Austrian film industry at all important festivals and fairs, principally the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, San Sebastián International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Locarno International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Pusan International Film Festival, Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema and the American Film Market in Los Angeles.
The AFC produces a number of publications:
The AFC website provides up-to-date announcements, background information and a film database, besides addresses and data on the Austrian film industry.
The first Diagonale film festivals in Salzburg (1993 to 1995) were organised by the Austrian Film Commission.
Martin Schweighofer has been the director of the Austrian Film Commission since 1992.
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