CREATIVE EUROPE – European Film Sales – 2025

Objective

To enhance the circulation, promotion, online and theatrical distribution of European audiovisual works, within the Union and internationally in the new digital environment; including through innovative business model.

Priority

To support international sales and circulation of non-national European works on all platforms (e.g. cinema theatres, online) targeting both small and largesized productions, including through coordinated distribution strategies covering several countries and encouraging the use of subtitling, dubbing and where applicable, audio description tools.

Among financed actions

• The generation of a potential fund which will be attributed according to the performance of the company on the European market
• The implementation of the action

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (Click here)
• Be established in one of the countries participating fully in the MEDIA strand of the Creative Europe Programme
• Be a European Sales Agent, i.e. a European company acting as an intermediary agent for the producer, who specialises in the commercial exploitation of a film by marketing and licensing a film to distributors or other purchasers for foreign countries
• Be appointed by the producer of each film declared or supported by way of a written contract or agreement to sell the film in at least 10 countries participating in the MEDIA strand
• A consortium composed of only one applicant must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 12 and 24 months
• Contact: EACEA-DISTRIBUTION-SALESAGENTS@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 5.150.000 euro
• Amount of the grant: up to 750.000 euro
• Funding rate: up to 70% of the total eligible costs