The Creative Europe Programme supports the culture and audiovisual sectors.

The European Film Sales support shall encourage and support the wider transnational distribution of recent European films by providing funds to European sales agents, based upon their performance on the market, for further reinvestment in the acquisition, promotion and distribution (including online) of recent non-national European films.

70%

Maximum funding per project: €750.000

• Audiovisual sector and Media
• Culture
• Other Thematic Category

• International Organisations
• Legal Entities
• Other Beneficiaries
• Private Bodies
• Semi-governmental organisations
• State-owned Enterprises

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

• be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
  • Creative Europe Participating Countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
    • non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe (list of participating countries)
• be established in one of the countries participating fully in the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme and owned directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries. When a company is publicly listed, the location of the stock exchange will in principle determine its nationality
• be a European Sales Agent, i.e. a European company acting as an intermediary agent for the producer, who specialises in the commercial exploitation of a film by marketing and licensing a film to distributors or other purchasers for foreign countries
• be appointed by the producer of each film declared or supported by way of a written contract or agreement to sell the film in at least 10 countries participating in the MEDIA strand.

Consortium composition
Only applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries; affiliated entities and other participants are allowed, if needed).

Eligible activities are the ones set out in section 2 above.

Eligibility of films
To generate the potential fund and to qualify for reinvestment measures, the film must comply with the following eligibility criteria:

• it must be a work of fiction (including animated films) or documentary, with a minimum duration of 60 minutes;
• it must have its first copyright established in 2020 at the earliest;
• it must not consist of alternative content (operas, concerts, performances, etc.), advertising, pornographic or racist material or advocate violence;
• it must be in majority produced by a producer or producers established in the countries participating in the MEDIA strand. A minimum 50% of the financing of the total estimated production budget must come from countries participating in the MEDIA strand and the production companies must be credited as such. To be considered as the actual producers the production companies must be credited as such. Elements such as opening credits, copyright appearing on the rolling credits, creative control, ownership of exploitation rights and share of profits may also be taken into account to determine who the actual producer is;
• it must be produced with the significant participation (as per the credits) of professionals who are nationals/residents of countries participating in the MEDIA strand and credited as such. ‘Significant participation’ is defined as having more than 50% of the points on the basis of the table below which includes also locations. The total can vary depending on the type of work (animation, documentary, fiction). When roles are shared, points are shared accordingly. In the event of a tie (i.e. where the points are equal for a given nationality) the nationality of the director (or the following talent in the list below) shall be decisive.

European films will be considered as “national” in that country participating in the MEDIA strand whose nationals /residents have participated in the highest proportion in the making of the film. This country is considered as the country of origin of the film for the purpose of the action. They will be considered as “non-national” outside the country of origin.

For details regarding the Eligibility of films, Eligibility of paying admission tickets, Eligible activities see p. 10-14 of the call document.

Organisation of European Programmes & Cultural Relations

Νenant Μbogntanovitz
Business Planning Coordinator
Address: Ifigenias 27, 2007 Acropolis, Nicosia
Telephone: +357 7000 1300
Email: info@epcr.org.cy/ nb@epcr.org.cy

Related questions should be sent to the following email address:
 EACEADISTRIBUTION-SALESAGENTS@ec.europa.eu

• Funding&Tenders
• Call document