The European documentary industry objects to MEDIA funding changes
25/05/2021 - More than 40 European associations and guilds have issued a statement objecting to changes in Creative Europe – MEDIA funding regulations for documentaries
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Entitled European Creative Documentaries, the Leftovers of the New MEDIA Programme , the statement singles out three technical modifications meant to simplify and standardise the programme rules, and which will have major consequences for creative documentaries in Europe.
The first point concerns development funds which will now only be awarded to projects that begin filming, at the earliest, ten months after the deadline for submission of the application for support – as opposed to eight months from the date of submission, as was the case previously. The signatories point out that this new deadline is incompatible with the production schedules of single creative documentaries, which are i
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BERLINALE 2021: Hosted by the European Film Market, the virtual talk saw the participation of several industry decision makers and professionals
The conditions necessary to create a thriving environment for independent audiovisual productions through investment obligations, levies and sustainable contractual practices were the main topic tackled by 3
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After opening remarks from EFM’s director
Dennis Ruh, Berlinale’s executive director
Mariette Rissenbeek and
Melanie Goodfellow, introduced the first speaker, EFAD’s Secretary General
Julie-Jeanne Régnault, who briefly talked through the work of EFAD in keeping track of industry and regulation changes in the sector, overseeing 35 different audiovisual centres, and the European landscape of implemented investment obligations and levies.
04/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021: Hosted by the European Film Market, the virtual talk saw the participation of several industry decision makers and professionals
FERA has published a letter specifying the essential points the professionals and the platforms need to agree on in order to build healthy creative relationships