Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM)

updated: December 15, 2009

Thanks to the project funding of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) the Berlinale Talent Campus could secure its financing for 2010.

The BKM has been founded in 1998 in order to bring together the responsibility for the cultural and media policy of the Federal Government. Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media is the official title of the Minister of State, and at the same time it is also the name of the Department which reports to him, with around 200 staff in Berlin and Bonn. The Federal Government’s cultural policy is supported by the German Parliamentary Committee on Cultural and Media Affairs. Since November 2005 Bernd Neumann has been the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

On a national level, the BKM strives to improve and further develop the general legal, social and economic framework for expanding arts and culture. With this in mind, it has offered support to a number of outstanding festivals –in particular the Berlin International Film Festival- that play an important role in the development of the cinematic arts and the cultural representation of Germany.

The Berlinale Talent Campus welcomes the BKM as one of its funders, alongside the MEDIA - Training programme of the European Union and the founding partners Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and Skillset/UK Film Council.