European Programme Creative Europe

International Co-production Funds

The call for proposals EAC/S29/2013 “Support to International Co-production Funds” has been published by the European Commission in the framework of the Creative Europe Programme (Media Sub-Programme).

The current  “Support to International Co-production Funds” call for proposals is based on the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020). Within the field of reinforcing the audiovisual sector's capacity, one of the priorities of the MEDIA Sub-programme will be to increase the capacity of audiovisual operators to develop European audiovisual works with a potential to circulate in the Union and beyond and to facilitate European and international co-production, including with television broadcasters.

 

More specifically, the objective of the current EAC/S29/2013 “Support to International Co-production Funds” call for proposals is to support activities helping European and international co-production partners to meet and/or provide indirect support for audiovisual works co-produced by supporting international co-production funds based in a country participating in the Programme.

 

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 negotiations with the country:

• EU Member States;
• 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 of the European neighbourhood area in accordance with the procedures defined with those

        countries following the framework agreements providing for their participation in European Union

        programmes.

 

Eligible applicants in the framework of the current EAC/S29/2013 “Support to International Co-production Funds” call for proposals must be a co-production fund that has been legally constituted and active for at least 12 months, having as its main activity the support of international co-productions.

 

The eligible activities of a co-production fund including the provision of financial support to eligible third parties for eligible projects conforming to the following criteria:

• Production of feature films, animations and documentaries of a minimum length of 60 minutes intended primarily for cinema release.

• Implementation of concrete distribution strategy aiming at the better circulation of the supported works. The film should be distributed in at least 3 territories out of which at least one participating in the MEDIA Sub-programme and at least one third country

 

The total budget available for the co-financing of actions under the current EAC/S29/2013 “Support to International Co-production Funds” call for proposals is 1.5 M €. The financial contribution of the Union cannot exceed 80% of the total eligible costs of the action. The maximum contribution per selected applicant under these guidelines is EUR 400.000.

 

The deadline for submitting proposals in the framework of the current EAC/S29/2013 “Support to International Co-production Funds” call for proposals is 21/03/2014.

 

Further information on the current call for proposals is available on the European Commission’s web site at: http://ec.europa.eu/culture/media/fundings/creative-europe/call_9_en.htm.