Programme Category
Programme Name
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The Films on the Move action shall encourage and support the wider distribution of recent non-national European films by encouraging sales agents and theatrical distributors in particular to invest in promotion and adequate distribution of non- national European films.
Detailed Call Description
The MEDIA strand shall provide support for the following measures: Support to international sales and circulation of non-national European works on all platforms (e.g. cinema theatres, online) targeting both small and largesized productions, including through coordinated distribution strategies covering several countries and encouraging the use of subtitling, dubbing and where applicable, audio description tools.
The activities to be funded are campaigns for the pan-European theatrical and/or online distribution of eligible European films, coordinated by the sales agent of the film.
Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
90%
Thematic Categories
- Audiovisual sector and Media
- Culture
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- International Organisations
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Semi-governmental organisations
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
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 Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (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.
- Creative Europe Participating Countries:
- be a European Sales agent: A European sales agent is the 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.
The applicant must be directly appointed by the producer of the submitted film by way of an international sales agreement providing for the right to sell the film in at least 15 countries participating in the MEDIA strand.
Consortium composition – Only applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries).
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Organization of European Programs & 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
EU Contact Point
Contact
Name: Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture
Telephone: +32 2 299 11 11 (Commission switchboard)
Address: Directorate-General for Education and Culture, European Commission, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium