CALL FOR PROPOSALS: EAC/S21/2013: SUPPORT FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF NON-NATIONAL EUROPEAN FILMS – THE "SALES AGENTS" SCHEME

Description                                                           Total budget: 2 750 000 EUR

Within the specific objective of promoting transnational circulation, one of the priorities of the MEDIA Sub-programme shall be the following:

   - supporting theatrical distribution through transnational marketing, branding, distribution and exhibition of audiovisual works;

The MEDIA Sub-programme shall provide support for the following:

   - establishing systems of support for the distribution of non-national European films through theatrical distribution and on all other
     platforms as well as for international sales activities, in particular the subtitling, dubbing and audio-description of audiovisual works.


Eligibility

   - Applicants must be European companies 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 and whose activities contribute to the
     attainment of the above objective
   - Applicants must be established in one of the countries participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme and owned directly or by majority
     participation, by nationals from such countries.

The following countries are eligible as long as all conditions referred to in Article 8 of the Regulation establishing the Creative Europe Programme are met and the Commission has entered into negotitations with the country:

   - EU Member States;
   - Acceding countries, candidate countries and potential candidates benefiting from a pre-accession strategy, in accordance with the general
     principles and general terms and conditions for the participation of those countries in Union programmes established in the respective
     Framework Agreements, Association Council Decisions or similar agreements;
   - EFTA countries which are members of the EEA, in accordance with the provisions of the EEA Agreement;
   - The Swiss Confederation, on the basis of a bilateral agreement to be concluded with that country;
   - Countries of the European neighbourhood area in accordance with the procedures defined with those countries following the framework
     agreements providing for their participation in European Union programmes.


Budget

The total budget available is EUR 2.750.000.


Deadline: 18 June 2014

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