ICAA - INSTITUTO DE LA CINEMATOGRAFIA Y DE LAS ARTES AUDIOVISUALES

Description

The Spanish Film Institute is a public organization that promotes, regulates and gives financial backing to cinematographic and audiovisual activities in Spain as an independent body ascribed to the Ministry of Culture, which programmes policies to support the film industry and audiovisual production.

Objective

ICAA's goals include: the encouragement of creativity, increasing audiovisual production and favoring the distribution of Spanish productions. Also, to reach an acceptable share on the domestic market to facilitate the maintenance of the entire Spanish film industry; to improve corporate competence and incentivize the application of new technologies; to promote the foreign presence of Spanish cinematography and audiovisual arts; and to safeguard and disseminate Spain's cinematographic heritage.