Call for proposals
Creative Europe programme - MEDIA Sub-programme:
“Support for Festivals” - EACEA/17/2017
Objective and description
Within the field of promoting transnational circulation, one of the priorities of the MEDIA Sub-programme shall be to support
audience development as a means of stimulating interest in and
improving access to European audiovisual works in particular through
promotion, events, film literacy and festivals.
The MEDIA Sub-programme shall provide support for the following measures:
· support initiatives presenting and promoting a diversity of European audiovisual works;
· support activities aiming at increasing knowledge and interest of audiences in European audiovisual works.
Eligible activities
By audiovisual festival is understood an event:
· programming eligible films
(fiction, documentaries or animation), that are being screened to wide
audiences including general public as well as accredited international
audiovisual professionals and press;
· taking place over a specific period of time, in a prior defined city;
· having a clear regulation/selection procedure.
A
minimum of 70% of the eligible programming presented to the public
during the festival OR a minimum of 100 feature films (or 400 short
films – in case of short film festivals) must originate from countries
participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme hereinafter referred to as
“European Films”.
Within this "MEDIA Sub-programme countries" programming:
· At least 50% of the films must be non-national.
· At least 15 such countries must be represented.
The MEDIA Sub-programme encourages European audiovisual festivals taking place in countries participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme which:
· demonstrate
strong efficiency in audience development (especially toward young
audience) by implementing activities before, during or after the event
including such as: year-long activities and/or decentralisation to other
cities (with smaller partner festivals nationally and/or crossborder)
and/or any efficient outreach activities towards non-core film festival
audience;
· demonstrate
a commitment to innovative actions especially in the areas of outreach
and audience development using the latest digital technologies and tools
such as social media and online activities in order to create a
permanent community; amplify innovative approaches beyond expanding
their reach (for instance cross-platform programmes etc);
· organize
initiatives for film literacy (for example film education) in close
cooperation with schools and other institutions throughout the year;
· place strong emphasis on European films in general and especially films from countries of low audiovisual production capacity;
· place strong emphasis on non-national European programming and geographic diversity of non-national European programming;
· demonstrate
interest to initiate and further develop collaboration and partnerships
with other European film festivals across borders to increase resource
efficiency including sharing of subtitling/dubbing, online viewing
platforms etc.
The following events are not eligible:
· Festivals
dedicated to works that are not considered as eligible, such as
commercials, live-broadcast events, TV series, music videos, video
games, amateur films, mobile phone films, trailers and nonnarrative
artistic works.
· Thematic
Festivals such as cultural events or art/technology/science-related
events, as well as highly specialized festivals dealing with specific
topics (for example: tourism, sport, ecology, nature, environment,
gastronomy, fashion, health etc.) are not eligible.
Eligible applicants
This call for proposals is open to entities (private companies, non-profit organisations, associations, charities, foundations, municipalities/Town Councils, etc.)
established in one of the countries participating in the MEDIA
Sub-programme (see below) and owned directly or by majority
participation, by nationals from such countries.
Applications
from legal entities established in one of the following countries are
eligible as long as all conditions referred to in Article 8 of the
Regulation establishing the Creative Europe Programme are met and the
Commission has entered into negotitations with the country:
· EU Member States and overseas countries and territories which are eligible to participate in the Programme pursuant to Article 58 of Council Decision 2001/822/EC;
· Acceding countries, candidate countries and potential candidates benefiting from a pre-accession strategy,
in accordance with the general principles and general terms and
conditions for the participation of those countries in Union programmes
established in the respective Framework Agreements, Association Council
Decisions or similar agreements;
· EFTA countries which are members of the EEA, in accordance with the provisions of the EEA Agreement;
· The Swiss Confederation, on the basis of a bilateral agreement to be concluded with that country;
· Countries covered by the European Neighbourhood Policy
in accordance with the procedures established with those countries
following the framework agreements providing for their participation in
European Union programmes.
The
Programme shall also be open for bilateral or multilateral cooperation
actions targeted at selected countries or regions on the basis of
additional appropriations paid by, and specific arrangements to be
agreed upon with, those countries or regions.
The
Programme shall permit cooperation and joint actions with countries not
participating in the Programme and with international organisations
which are active in the cultural and creative sectors such as UNESCO,
the Council of Europe, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development or the World Intellectual Property Organisation on the basis
of joint contributions for the realisation of the Programme's
objectives. Proposals from applicants in non EU countries may be
selected, provided that, on the date of the award decision agreements
have been signed setting out the arrangements for the participation of
those countries in the programme established by the Regulation referred
to above.
An
updated list of countries that fulfil the conditions referred to in
Article 8 of the Regulation and that the Commission has started
negotiations with can be found on the following link: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe/library/eligibility-organisations-non-eu-countries_en
Budget and duration
The total budget earmarked for the co-financing of projects is estimated at EUR 3.2 M.
The
EU financial contribution will take the form of a lump sum according to
the number of European films in the programming, between EUR 19.000 and
EUR 75.000.
The Agency expects to fund 75 proposals.
Activities must start during the following periods:
· Proposals submitted on 23 November 2017: Between 1/05/2018 and 31/10/2018.
· Proposals submitted on 26 April 2018: Between 1/11/2018 and 30/04/2019
The period of the action starts 8 months before the start date of the activities and ends 4 months after this date. The maximum duration of actions is 12 months.
Deadline for proposals’ submission
The call for proposals has two deadlines:
· 23 November 2017 at 12.00 noon (midday Brussels time): for activities starting between 01/05/18 and 31/10/18;
· 26 April 2018 at 12.00 noon (midday Brussels time): for activities starting between 01/11/18 and 30/04/19.
Proposals must be submitted using the online application form (eForm).
Further information
Please find attached the call text and guidelines. The eform is available at: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/PPMT/
The annexes to be attached to the eform are available at: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe/funding/support-festivals-2018_en
Contact within the Agency: EACEA-MEDIA-FESTIVALS@ec.europa.eu
More information: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/creative-europe/funding/support-festivals-2018_en
Kind regards,
Rosemary
Rosemary STREVINIOTI
Head of Brussels Office
European Office of Cyprus
Rue du Luxembourg 3, 2nd floor
B-1000 Brussels
Tel./Fax: +32 (0) 2 280 22 85
E-mail: strevinioti.rozamaria@ucy.ac.cy
GREEK TRANSLATION: https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/sites/eacea-site/files/gr_festivals_eacea-17-2017.pdf