MIGROS CULTURE PERCENTAGE
The Migros Culture Percentage supports cultural and social initiatives and unlocks a wide range of opportunities for a broad section of the population. Alongside traditional programmes it specifically highlights visionary social ventures. The Migros Culture Percentage also includes the Migros Club School, the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, the four “im Grünen” parks and the Monte Generoso rack railway. In all, the Migros Culture Percentage invests over 140 million francs each year.
www.migros-culture-percentage.ch
Promotion of Swiss film
Migros has a long tradition of supporting films. As early as 1943, Migros founder Gottlieb Duttweiler was on the board of Praesens Film AG so that he could promote “ethical, high-quality Swiss film productions”. One production from this time, “Marie-Louise” by Leopold Lindtberg, even won an Oscar in 1946.
Since 1965, the Migros Culture Percentage has consistently promoted Swiss filmmaking with innovative, inspiring and unbureaucratic support measures.
Post-production
For more than twenty years, the Migros Culture Percentage has been a partner for the post-production of professionally made Swiss films. By covering the residual financing, this has enabled the best possible end result. Films receiving support were thus given greater opportunities to assert themselves on the national and international film market.
Promoted films 2009 – 2020 (german)
Promotion of ideas
A good script is the basis for any good film. From 2010 to 2020, the Migros Culture Percentage supported ideas for cinematographic works with grants and a mentoring programme. The support was deliberately started at an early stage to enable script writers to accomplish this key creative phase under professional conditions. The success behind the promotion of ideas lays the foundation for the Story Lab of the Migros Culture Percentage.
Promoted film ideas 2010 – 2020 (german)
Migros Culture Percentage Swiss documentary film competition
From 2010 to 2020, the Migros Culture Percentage organised the Migros Culture Percentage Swiss documentary film competition in cooperation with SRG SSR. The two-stage competition saw ten documentary films covering topics relevant to society brought to life.
Promoted documentary films 2010 – 2020 (german)
Start 2021
As of 2021, the Story Lab of the Migros Culture Percentage is the contact point for content development for all audiovisual narrative projects.
Funding for cultural ventures by the Migros Culture Percentage
From 2021 onwards, film projects will also be supported by the interdisciplinary funding contributions of the Migros Culture Percentage.
”Bird Island“ (2019, Direction: Maya Kosa, Sergio da Costa, Production: Close Up Films)