Transnational

European Film Distribution - CREA-MEDIA-2025

Session opening:

05.12.2024

Session expirations:

24.04.2025 Open

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Description

The European Film Distribution support shall 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 the acquisition, promotion and distribution (including online) of recent non-national European films.

There are two phases for the funded activities:

The generation of a potential fund, which will be attributed according to the performance of the company on the European market.
The implementation of the action - the potential fund thus generated by each company must be reinvested in:

- the co-production of eligible non-national European films;
- the acquisition of distribution rights, for example by means of minimum guarantees, of eligible non-national European films;
- the promotion, marketing and advertising on the market of eligible nonnational European films.

Contacts

Creative Europe Desks (Italy): www.europacreativa-media.it/contatti

Email: EACEA-FILM-DISTRIBUTION@ec.europa.eu

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Data sheet

Production

European audiovisual works

Distribution channel

Cinema
Television
Web

Film industry branch

Distribution

Eligible projects

Feature Film
Documentary
Animation

Beneficiaries

Italian or European distribution company

Maximum contribution

€ 1,000,000 per project

Maximum quota on cost

70%

Type of contribution

Non-repayable grants

Requirements

The applicants must:

be legal entities (public or private bodies);
be established in one of the eligible countries;
be European companies active in the audiovisual sector as cinema / theatrical distributor with following criteria:
- be the holder of the theatrical distribution rights for the film in the country concerned;
- carry out the theatrical distribution of the film in the country concerned;
- pay directly the associated distribution costs;
- be registered and have theatrical distribution operations in the country concerned.

Projects should not normally exceed 24 months (extensions are possible, if duly justified).