MEDIA 2007: Call for proposals - EACEA/05/10: Support to Video on Demand and Digital Cinema Distribution

This Call is based on Decision No 1718/2006/EC concerning the implementation of a programme of support for the European audiovisual sector (MEDIA 2007). One of the measures to be implemented under the Decision is to support Video on Demand and Digital Cinema Distribution.

The Video on Demand and Digital Cinema Distribution scheme constitutes one of the ways in which the MEDIA 2007 programme ensures that the latest technologies and trends are incorporated into the business practices of beneficiaries of the programme.

The main objective of this scheme is to support the creation and exploitation of catalogues of European works to be distributed digitally across borders to a wider audience and/or to cinema exhibitors through advanced distribution services, integrating where necessary digital security systems in order to protect online content.

This Call is aimed at companies whose activities contribute to those objectives and which are established in one of the EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland or Croatia.

The following actions are eligible:
1. Video on Demand (VoD): service enabling individuals to select audiovisual works from a central server for viewing on a remote screen by streaming and/or downloading.
2. Digital Cinema Distribution (DCD): digital delivery (to an acceptable commercial standard) of ‘Core Content’, i.e. feature films, TV films or series, shorts (fiction, animation and creative documentary) to cinemas for theatrical exploitation (via hard disc, satellite, online …).

Actions must start between 1 July 2010 and 1 January 2011 and must end by 31 December 2011; the maximum duration is 18 months.

The total budget available is €7 million. Financial support will take the form of grants. There is no maximum amount to be awarded, but EU financial contribution will not be more than 50% of eligible costs.

The deadline for submission of applications is 21 June 2010.

Detailed guidelines and application forms are on the MEDIA website. 

Reference: 2010/C 73/08

(Added 2010-03-23)