To date, 21 projects have been supported in total, with an overall funding sum of 495,000 Euros. A jury chaired by Wim Wenders selects the grant recipients in a two-stage application process. After an initial pre-selection, the remaining candidates are invited to present their projects to the jury. In addition to thematic criteria, the jury is interested in convincing formal and visual approaches to the realization of the projects. Through the grant, young filmmakers residing in Germany, and in particular in North Rhine-Westphalia, are supported in their efforts to tell stories with new means and thus enrich film language.

The Concepción Independent Film Awards arrives at its nineth edition, with the mission of showing good cinema for a week to the BíoBío region, to Chile and to the whole world. The festival tries to provide a social view of film production, however, it is not limited to this theme, but offers a range of themes and genres for the enjoyment of lovers of the seventh art.