Global objectives of the Programme Total budget available: EUR 20 442 675
The global objectives of the programme are the following:
a. preserve and enhance European cultural and linguistic diversity and its cinematographic and audiovisual heritage, guarantee its
accessibility to the public and promote intercultural dialogue;
b. increase the circulation and viewership of European audiovisual works inside and outside the European Union, including through greater
cooperation between players;
c. strengthen the competitiveness of the European audiovisual sector in the framework of an open and competitive European market
favourable to employment, including by promoting links between audiovisual professionals.
Specific objectives of the "Automatic scheme"
The aim of the "Automatic scheme" is to encourage and support the wider transnational distribution of recent European films by providing funds to distributors, based upon their performance on the market, for further reinvestment in new non-national European films.
The scheme also aims to encourage the development of links between the production and distribution sectors thus improving the competitive position of non-national European films and the competitiveness of European companies.
Budget Available
“Generation”: The total annual amount of potential funding available to each distributor shall be determined on the basis of the paid admissions to recent non-national European films achieved by the distributor in the reference year set out in the call for proposal.
In the case of “Reinvestment”, the amount of the financial contribution awarded to each company is determined with respect to the cost and nature of each proposed reinvestment action (production, distribution Minimum Guarantees and P&A costs). Support will be in the form of a subsidy.
Eligible Companies
European company
Company owned, whether directly or by majority participation, by nationals of Member States of the European Union and of the European Economic Area (or nationals of the other European countries participating in the MEDIA Programme) and registered in one of these countries.
Cinema / theatrical distributor
A cinema / theatrical distributor is involved in commercial activity designed to bring to the attention of a wide audience a film for the purpose of exploitation in cinema theatres. This should be the principal activity of the company or division of the company. Such activity may include aspects of the technical publishing of an audiovisual work (dubbing and subtitling, striking of prints, circulation of prints, etc.) as well as marketing and promotional activities (production of trailers and publicity material, the purchase of advertising space, the organisation of promotional events etc.).
Eligible Countries
Applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
— the 27 countries of the European Union,
— the EEA countries, Switzerland and Croatia,
— Bosnia and Herzegovina (under the condition of the finalisation of the negotiation process and the formalisation of the participation of this
country to the MEDIA programme).
Deadline: 30 April 2013 for Generation, 1 October 2014 for Reinvestment
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