(, or just FFF) is a company whose goal is to promote media in Bavaria, Germany. The fund has its headquarters in Munich.
Since its founding in 1996, has had the task of carrying out quantitative and high-quality film funding in Bavaria as well as additional services for the film industry. Its aim is to create and develop a powerful and competitive film and television industry in the state.
On 1 March 1996, the fund was founded at the Bavarian Film Center . The president and CEO at the time was and his deputy was Klaus Schaefer. The chairman of the board was Bavarian Minister of Culture Hans Zehetmair.
In 1999, the took over the responsibility for the fund, and Minister of State Erwin Huber became chairman of the FFF. That year, the fund participated for the first time in the (). Since 1999, FFF awards prizes at the () and the (). To assist in the financing of film productions, , the , , and the founded the Bavarian Bank Fund (BBF) in 2000.
In 2003, the first film agreement was signed in Quebec between the regional Canadian film funding and the FFF.
In 2005, presented for the first time its award for film journalism at .
Since 2009, has supported the introduction of digital technology in film productions and in film projection in theaters. The fund also promotes culturally and educationally sophisticated computer games.
The shareholders of the fund are the Free State of Bavaria, the (), the , ZDF, the private broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media, and RTL Television.