Objectives and Description
This notice is based on the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020)
Within the specific objective of promoting non-national circulation of European films, one of the priorities of the MEDIA Sub-programme is the following:
- supporting theatrical distribution through non-national 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.
Eligible applicants
Applicants must be European cinema/theatrical distribution companies involved in commercial activity designed to bring to the attention of a wide audience a film for the purpose of exploitation in cinema theatres and whose activities contribute to the attainment of the above objectives.
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 negotiation with the country:
- EU Member States and overseas countries and territories which are eligible to participate in the Programme pursuant to Article 58 of Council Decision 2001/822/EC;
- 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 covered by the European Neighbourhood Policy in accordance with the procedures established with those countries following the framework agreements providing for their participation in Union programmes.
The Programme shall also be open for bilateral or multilateral cooperation actions targeted at selected countries or regions on the basis of additional appropriations paid by, and specific arrangements to be agreed upon with, those countries or regions.
The Programme shall permit cooperation and joint actions with countries not participating in the Programme and with international organisations which are active in the cultural and creative sectors such as UNESCO, the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development or the World Intellectual Property Organisation on the basis of joint contributions for the realisation of the Programme's objectives.
Proposals from applicants in non EU countries may be selected, provided that, on the date of the award decision, agreements have been signed setting out the arrangements for the participation of those countries in the programme established by the Regulation referred to above.
Eligible actions
The activities to be funded are campaigns for the non-national distribution of eligible European films, submitted as part of an eligible grouping of minimum 7 distributors coordinated by the sales agent of the film.
The film must have been majority produced by a producer/producers established in countries participating in the MEDIA sub-programme and made with a significant participation by professionals from those countries. The film must be a recent work of fiction, animation or documentary of more than 60 minutes long and from a different country than the country of distribution.
The film must not consist in alternative content (operas, concerts, performances, etc.) or advertising,
Films from DE, ES, FR, IT, and UK must have a production budget of maximum 10M€.
Application
In order to submit an application, applicants must have registered their company in the Education, Audiovisual, Culture, Citizenship and Volunteering Participant Portal (Participant Portal) and have obtained a valid Participant Identification Code (PIC CODE).
Applicants that, at the time of submission of applications, do not have a valid PIC Code for their company, must first register their company in the Participant Portal:
The tool also allows applicants to upload different documents related to their organisation. These documents have to be uploaded once and will not be requested again for subsequent applications by the same organisation.
Applicants must ensure that the following documents are uploaded on the Portal and are up to date:
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The legal identification form duly signed by the person authorised to enter into legally binding commitments on behalf of the applicant
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For private companies: extract from the official gazette/trade register, and certificate of liability to VAT (if, as in certain countries, the trade register number and VAT number are identical, only one of these documents is required).
For public entities: legal resolution or decision established in respect of the public company, or other official document established for the public-law entity. -
A copy of the organisation's legal statutes permitting to establish the European shareholding (owned directly or by majority participation by nationals from countries participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme.) Should the organisation's legal statutes provide insuficient information, please upload additional official documents establishing the shareholding.
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The Bank Identification Form
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The curriculum vitae of the legal representative of the company and of the Head of Distribution (if they are not the same person).
When the request exceeds 60.000€:
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The financial capacity form (filled in with the relevant statutory accounting figures)
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For commercial companies: Complete and certified annual accounts (balance sheet, profit and loss account and the annexes) for the 2 most recent years available
For non-profit companies: Complete and certified annual accounts (balance sheet, profit and loss account and the annexes) for the most recent year available
Call for Proposals EACEA/19/2016
At the end of the registration process applicants will receive the Participant Identification Code (PIC CODE). This code is unique for each company and will be requested in the application form.
If after the company's registration any information related to the company changes, the company's details must be updated accordingly in the portal and the relevant new documents must be uploaded.
Award criteria
Eligible applications will be assessed on the basis of the following criteria.
- Number of distributors in the grouping – (1 point/ distributor)
- Number of distributors that have generated a potential fund under the last automatic distribution call for proposals (1 point/ distributor)
- Film produced in a country participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme, to the exception of DE, ES, FR, IT and UK (2 points)
The grouping of distributors that present a live-action children's film with the highest score will be selected, regardless the ranking of applications in the entire selection process.
Budget
The total budget available is EUR 9.750.000.
The financial contribution will take the form of a lump sum, according to the number of screens reached on the first week of release, between EUR 2.800 and EUR 150.000.
Deadline for submission of applications
The deadlines for sending applications are 1/12/2016 and 14/06/2017.
Proposals must be submitted not later than 12.00 noon (midday Brussels time) on the relevant deadline, using the online application form (eForm). No other method of submission of an application will be accepted.
Applicants shall ensure that all the documents requested and mentioned in the eForms are provided.
In addition, a set of compulsory annexes that cannot be submitted online have to be sent to the Agency by post on the relevant deadline, to the following address:
Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency
Creative Europe Programme (2014–2020)
MEDIA Sub-programme – SELECTIVE SCHEME
Avenue du Bourget 1
BE – 1049 Brussels
Belgium
For more information click "Further official information" below.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe/funding/distribution-selective-scheme-–-support-for-transnational-distribution-european-films-2017_en