European Commission announces Proposals for European Festivals

Deadline: 24-Aug-21

European Commission is calling for proposals for European Festivals to increasing audiences’ interest in non-national European audiovisual content and promoting the circulation and visibility of non-national European audiovisual content.

Objectives

Within the specific objective of promoting innovation, competitiveness and scalability of the European audiovisual sector, the priorities of the MEDIA strand are:

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;
to promote European audiovisual works, heritage works, and support audience engagement and the development of audiences of all ages, in particular young audiences, across Europe and beyond.

Funding Information

The available call budget is EUR 9 000 000. This budget might be increased by maximum 20%.

Expected Results

Support the recovery of festivals screening a significant proportion of non-national European films and audiovisual works, which have been particularly affected by the pandemic crisis;
Increase the impact of European audio-visual festivals aiming to reinforce promotion, distribution and circulation of non-national European films and audiovisual works to growing audiences across Europe;
Foster exchange of knowledge and best-practice models for cooperation among festivals through coordinated/collaborative activities targeted to expand and renew audiences;
Harness the digital transition.

Eligibility Criteria

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

be legal entities (public or private bodies)
be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- Creative Europe Participating Countries:
  - EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
  - non-EU countries:
    - listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Creative Europe Programme (associated countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
be established in one of the countries participating in the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme and owned directly or by majority participation, by nationals from such countries; for publicly listed companies, the location of the stock exchange will be taken into account to determine its nationality
only applications from eligible entities organising audiovisual festivals in countries participating in the MEDIA strand will be accepted.