EURIMAGES – European Cinema Support Fund and Telefilm Canada – Support for Co-Production

Eligibility:

Applicants (Eligible Producers) must be/have:

1. legal persons governed by the legislation of one of the Fund’s member states, whose principal activity consists in producing cinematographic works, and whose origins are independent of public or private audiovisual media service providers.
2. a company owned and continues to be majority owned, either directly or indirectly, by nationals of the member states. Legal entities which are not able to show the composition of their shareholding are not eligible.
3. a production company considered independent, therefore eligible for funding, when less than 25% of its share capital is held by a single audiovisual media service provider or less than 50% where several audiovisual media service providers are involved. Producers ineligible for funding, because they cannot be considered independent, may nonetheless participate in the financing of the project if they are not direct beneficiaries of Eurimages’ support.
4. producers who have previously received support from Eurimages and must have met all their contractual obligations to the Fund, in particular, where support has been received in the form of an advance on receipts, the submission of revenue statements for any project(s) previously supported by Eurimages and the payment of any outstanding amounts due.

Eligible projects must be:

1. for feature-length fiction, animation and documentary films of a minimum length of 70 minutes, intended for cinema release;
2. co-productions between at least two independent producers, established in different member states of the Fund, of which at least one is a member state of the Council of Europe;
3. comply with the legislation of the countries concerned and the bilateral or multilateral treaties in force between the co-producing countries. For the purposes of these regulations, the awarding of national public support will be considered, where appropriate, equivalent to national accreditation (co-production status certificate) issued by the competent national authorities;
4. conform to the cultural objectives of the Fund; and
5. include a digital master for cinema release and compatible with norms generally applied in the member states.