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Culture and Creativity

Support will be given to European festivals programming a significant proportion of non-national European audiovisual works, aiming at year-long activities targeted to expand and renew audiences and implementing innovative audience outreach activities as well as initiatives for young audiences.


Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure a more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness. Applications should present activities to be implemented over 2 years.

Total budget
€2.44 billion
Dates
2021 - 2027
Grant / loan size
From €27.000 to €75.000 depending on the number of European short films in the programming.
Who can apply
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.

Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc (see section 13).
No. of partners needed
Only applications by single applicants are allowed.
Sector
Name of the programme or initiative
Type of support
How to access
Calls for proposals
Total initiative budget
€10 million
Version
0.0.0
Sector count
1
Organisation count
5
Need count
5