 In 1988 he became managing director of the city's economic film fund (Hamburg Film Fund - Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein).The same year, he was a co-founder of EFDO (European Film Distribution Office) and became the president of this European organisation, a post he held until EFDO's dissolution in 1996.In 1992 the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and WDR (West German broadcasting corporation) managed to get Dieter Kosslick to come from Hamburg to the Rhine to head up the barely one-year-old "Filmstiftung NRW" as its executive director.