PANAJI
Announcing that the Goa Film Finance Scheme (FFS) will undergo revision, the State government said that the existing scheme will continue to apply to only those films produced up to December 31, 2025.
In a notification issued by Director of Information and Publicity Deepak Bandekar, the government stated that the films produced after December 31, 2025 will be governed by a revised scheme, which will come into effect from the date of its notification.
“It is hereby informed that the said Scheme will go under revision. The existing Goa Scheme of Financial Assistance for Films“2016 shall remain in force and be applicable only to films produced up to December 31, 2025,” the notification stated.
“Films produced after December 31, 2025, shall be governed by the revised Goa Scheme of Financial Assistance for Films, which shall come into effect from the date of its notification,” it added.
The State government, through the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG), had in November 2024 invited applications under the existing scheme for films produced between January 2018 and December 2023. A total of 30 applications were received during this period.
The film finance scheme was first launched in 2011 by the then Chief Minister Digambar Kamat with a financial assistance cap of Rs 25 lakh. It was later revived in November 2016 during the Laxmikant Parsekar-led government, before being abruptly discontinued by the Pramod Sawant government in 2017.
The scheme is a specially formulated government initiative to provide financial assistance for the production of feature films in Konkani and Marathi, as well as non-feature films”including short films and documentaries”in Konkani, Marathi, English and Hindi, by Goan producers.
So far, nine Goan films availed of the scheme between 2011 and 2015, while another eight films benefited during 2016 and 2017.
Under the scheme, feature films in Konkani and Marathi were eligible for grants of Rs 50 lakh for A category, Rs 30 lakh for B category and Rs 10 lakh for C category, or 50 per cent of the total production cost, whichever was less.
Similarly, non-feature films in Konkani, Marathi, Hindi and English were eligible for grants of Rs 10 lakh for A category, Rs 5 lakh for B category and Rs 3 lakh for C category, or 50 per cent of the total expenditure, whichever was less.
