The Creative Europe Programme supports the culture and audiovisual sectors.

Support shall be provided to European audiovisual festivals aiming at increasing audiences’ interest in non-national European audiovisual content and promoting its circulation and visibility.

Project budget (maximum grant amount): between €19,000 and €150,000 per project

The grant will be a lump sum grant. The amount is prefixed by the granting authority at:
Number of European films per festival:                      Edition and programming Lump Sum in Euros:
< 40 European films                                                                            27,000
40 – 60 European films                                                                   35,000
61 – 80 European films                                                                     41,000
81 – 100 European films                                                                  46,000
101 – 120 European films                                                                  55,000
121 – 200 European films                                                                 63,000
> 200 European films                                                                         75,000

For short film festivals:
A lump sum is set according to the number of European short films in the programming.
The grant is calculated on the basis of the following grid:

Number of European films per festival:                       Edition and programming Lump Sum in Euros:
< 150 European films                                                                          19,000
150 – 250 European films                                                             25,000
> 250 European films                                                                       33,000

• Audiovisual sector and Media
• Culture

• Associations
• International Organisations
• NGOs
• Non Profit Organisations
• Other Beneficiaries
• Private Bodies
• Semi-governmental organisations
• State-owned Enterprises
• Trade Unions

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 or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries). Only applications from eligible entities organising audiovisual festivals in countries participating in the MEDIA strand will be accepted.

Eligible audiovisual festivals are those:  

• having a clear curation, regulation and selection procedure and screening to the general public as well as accredited international audiovisual professionals and press;
• 50% of the programming for which support is sought should be devoted to non-national European films and audiovisual works from countries participating to the MEDIA strand and presenting a geographical diverse coverage of at least 15 from these countries including low capacity ones
• having had at least three editions that took place by end of December 2022

Eligible activities: Eligible activities are the ones set out in section 2 above.
The following events are NOT eligible:

• Festivals programming exclusively 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 non-narrative 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, gastronomy, fashion, health etc.) are not eligible.

Projects must comply with EU policy interests and priorities. Financial support to third parties is NOT allowed.

Organization of European Programs & Cultural Relations
Νenant Μbogntanovitz, Business Planning Coordinator
Ifigenias 27, 2007 Acropolis, Nicosia
Contact Phone: +357 7000 1300
Contact Email: info@epcr.org.cy, nb@epcr.org.cy

(Publish Date: 23/11/2022-for internal use only)

For related questions, send to the e-mail address: EACEAMEDIA-FESTIVALS@ec.europea.eu 

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