MEDIA / SUPPORT FOR THE TRANSNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF EUROPEAN FILMS - SUPPORT TO THE INTERNATIONAL SALES AGENTS OF EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHIC FILMS

Global objectives of the Programme                                                                                           Total budget available: EUR 1 500 000

The global objectives of the programme are the following:

a. to 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. to increase the circulation and viewership of European audiovisual works inside and outside the European Union, including through
    greater cooperation between players; and
c. to 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 Sales Agents Scheme"

The aim of the Automatic Sales Agents scheme is to encourage and support the wider transnational distribution of recent European films by providing funds to sales agents, 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

The total budget available is EUR 1 500 000


Eligible applicants

European sales agents:

Any 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 territories.

The Sales Agent must be appointed by the producer of the film by way of a written contract or agreement.

A contract / agreement signed between a sales agent and a producer will be considered as an international sales contract / agreement only if it provides for the right of the sales agent to sell the film in at least 10 countries participating in the MEDIA Programme.

To qualify as a European company, the applicant company must be 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.

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: 18 June 2013

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