Call for proposals � EACEA/25/12: MEDIA 2007 � Development, distribution, promotion and training: Support for the transnational distribution of European films: The �automatic� scheme 2013

One of the objectives of the MEDIA programme is to 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 new non-national European films.
The scheme also aims to encourage the development of links between the production and distribution sectors thus improving the market share of European films and the competitiveness of European companies.
This notice is aimed at European companies specialised in the theatrical distribution of European works and whose activities contribute to the attainment of the MEDIA objectives.

The ‘automatic’ support scheme works in two phases:
— Generation of a potential Fund, proportional to the number of paying admission tickets sold for non- domestic European films in States participating in the Programme during the reference year (2012), up to a fixed ceiling per film and adjusted for each country.
Group or club screenings where an individual ticket price is not levied will not be eligible. All admissions should be covered by the relevant national reporting and verification systems which enable the National Authority to certify them. EACEA reserves the right to reject applications where it is not satisfied that all of the conditions have been met.
— Reinvestment of the potential Fund: thus generated by each company, the Fund must be reinvested in three modules (three types of action) by 1st October 2014:
1. the co-production of non-national European films;
2. the acquisition of distribution rights, for example by means of minimum guarantees, of non-national European films; and/or in
3. editing costs (prints, dubbing and subtitling), promotion costs and publicity costs for non-national European films.
For the film to be eligible its first copyright must not have been established before 2009.

Implementation of this call is subject to the adoption of the work programme relating to the Creative Europe Programme.

Applicants must be established in one of the following countries: the 27 EU Member States, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Croatia, or Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The total budget available is €20,442,675. The financial contribution awarded is a subsidy, which will not exceed 40%, 50% or 60% of the total eligible costs depending on the nationality of the film and the territory of distribution. There is no maximum amount.

The deadline for applications is 30 April 2013.

Further details are available on the MEDIA website

Reference: 2012/C 394/14

(Added 2012-12-20)