Creative Europe – European Film Sales – 2023

Objectives

• To promote competitiveness, scalability, cooperation, innovation and sustainability, including through mobility, in the innovation, competitiveness and scalability of the European audiovisual sector
• To enhance the circulation, promotion, online and theatrical distribution of European audiovisual works, within the Union and internationally in the new digital environment, including through innovative business model

Priorities

• Priority 1:  to support to international sales and circulation of non-national European works on all platforms
• Priority 2: to encourage and support the wider transnational distribution of recent European films by providing funds to European sales agents, based upon their performance on the market, for further reinvestment in the acquisition, promotion and distribution (including online) of recent non-national European films

Among financed actions

• Generation of a potential fund which will be attributed according to the performance of the company on the European market
• Minimum guarantees or advances paid for the international sales rights on eligible non-national European films
• Promotion, marketing and advertising on the market of eligible non-national European films

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the call: 24 months

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries
• Be a European Sales Agent, i.e. a European company acting as an intermediary agent for the producer
• Be appointed as sales agent by the producer of each film declared or supported by way of a written contract or agreement to sell the film in at least 1 countries participating in the MEDIA strand
• International organisations
• Entities without legal personality
• Associations and interest groupings
• Countries currently negotiating association agreements
• Only applications by single applicants are allowed (single beneficiaries)

• Total budget of the topic: 5,5 million euro
• Amount of the grant: max. 750.000 euro
• Co-financing rate: up to 70% of the total eligible costs