European Film sales agent

Applicants can declare the same 2 films for both requirements provided that the films comply with the following:

-they were acquired during the reference year indicated in the call (Section 6 Eligibility – Eligible activities),

-they are eligible (i.e qualified as European in the Creative Europe MEDIA DB),

-they have been distributed in 1 non-national territory during the reference year indicated in the call.

Applicants can only select admissions for which they own the theatrical rights in the territories indicated in the international sales agreement signed with the producer.

The UK is not a participating country for the purposes of the Creative Europe programme 2021 - 2027 and therefore UK films should not be selected for the admissions under step 2.

As indicated in the eligibility criterion of the call, “When a company is publicly listed, the location of the stock exchange will in principle determine its nationality”. However, applicants will be requested to provide the detailed list of their shareholders, with their respective nationalities, until the level of nationals (i.e. physical persons), to assess, on the basis of all the elements provided, if the company fulfils the eligibility criterion of being “owned directly or indirectly, wholly or by majority, by nationals from countries participating in the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme”.

An affiliated entity has a link with the beneficiary, in particular a legal or capital link, which is neither limited to the action nor established for the sole purpose of its implementation. You may add one or more affiliated entities on condition that they have a PIC number and meet all the eligibility and other call conditions. Affiliated entities are allowed to fully participate in the grant and claim costs under the same conditions as the beneficiary organization. However, they do not sign the grant agreement, and the beneficiary organization bears full responsibility towards the granting authority (EACEA). The application and annexes must include full information for each affiliated entity as well as for the beneficiary organization, i.e

- information on independence and ownership and control must contain information for each company, establishing that the companies are indeed affiliated and that there is a capital or legal link to the beneficiary organization (for example, a capital link showing direct or indirect control);

- the budget should show the breakdown of the estimated generated amount for the beneficiary and for each affiliated entity;

- the affiliated entity's relationship to the beneficiary and their tasks must be mentioned in part B (description of the action). For more information, please see article 8 of the AGA - Annotated Grant Agreement.

In Part A - Administrative forms - 3 Budget - Fill in the column C.3 Purchase costs - Other goods, works and services (EUR). Take the estimated grant calculated from the MEDIA Database and multiply it by 1,34 (manual formula). Indirect costs of 7% is calculated automatically . The funding rate is 70% of the total eligible costs that will be calculated in the budget section. Make sure that the Requested EU contribution corresponds with the estimated grant (= potential fund) from the MEDIA Database.

Applicants should complete the questions indicated for European Film Sales under :

-section 1.1 'Relevance - Background and general objectives',

-section 3.2 'Project teams',

-section 5, 'Workplan, Work packages, Timing and subcontracting', indicating a single work package only, named "Reinvestment activity plan". In that work package, you should only indicate the following 4 deliverables:

1. Reinvestment progress report

2. List of films and overview of related reinvestment activities

3. Supporting documents for the reinvestment activities

4.Promotion Material

you may indicate tasks for the two reinvestment activities, although this is not necessary.

-section 7 'Declarations'.

In case the film has no evidence of distribution in the Creative Europe Media Database, the applicant must:

1. ask for the film qualification in the Creative Europe Media Database , and

2. provide an independent proof of the distribution of the film (i.e. of its commercial theatrical release) in the reference year indicated in the call. This proof must be attached in the section “other annexes” in the submission system, and should allow the Agency to reasonably verify it. Self-declarations, or signed declarations by distributors, are not accepted.

The date to take into account is the date of signature of the international sales agreement signed by the sales agent with the producer which must be included in the reference year indicated in the call.

The list of declared admissions are available in the Creative Europe MEDIA database once the applicant has created his application. Applicants must click on the hyperlink “here” in Step 1 and export the Excel list of declared admissions. The Excel is updated "live" with information related to film qualification.

Yes, Ukraine participates in the Creative Europe Programme. See List of non-EU Participating Countries in the Creative Europe ProgrammePDF

Yes, the system automatically calculates the maximum number of admissions per film. This is the 'maximum eligible threshold' described in section 6 'Eligibility' of the call document. Please check the threshold for the country of distribution. When this limit has been reached, the film selected will not generate a grant in step2 (beyond this limit).