국제공동제작과 지원정책의 상관성 연구

A Study on Correlations between Co-productions and Support Policy in European Countries

This paper tries to investigate that the rise of co-productions is a part of institutional context that has been shaped by correlations between financing structure and support policy in the film industry. When co-production first appeared in the 1950s, it was developed as a local strategy by European countries that wished to protect their film industries from the dominance of Hollywood by sharing their markets, financing resources and support mechanisms. More recently, however, it has been increased to diversify the risk of film financing through tax incentives. This change has been encouraged by tax competition among the countries involved. In such a way, co-production has placed in a new institutional film-financing structure that combines funding with support policies. This paper, which focuses on tax incentives and financing structure in European countries, examines correlations between the rise of co-production and changes of institution mechanism.