Call: Development Slate Funding

Creative Europe's stated aims are to help the cultural and creative sectors seize the opportunities of the digital age and globalisation, enable the sectors to reach their economic potential, contributing to sustainable growth, jobs, and social cohesion, and to give Europe's culture and media sectors access to new international opportunities, markets, and audiences.
This will, amongst others, involve funding for:

• artists and cultural professionals
• cinemas
• films
• book translations

The audiovisual sector is transforming with the rise of digital technology. This creates additional issues, such as the protection of intellectual property, securing access to financing in a relatively new and changing sector, and ensuring the proper distribution of works.

The Media sub-programme, which supports the audiovisual and multimedia sector, provides opportunities for:

• Initiatives that aim to promote the distribution of works and the access to markets
• Initiatives for the development of projects or a set of projects (slate funding)
• Support for the production of television programmes or video games
• Activities to increase interest in and improve access to audiovisual works
• Activities that promote interests in films, such as cinema networks or film festivals
• Measures that facilitate international co-production and strengthen the circulation and distribution of works
• Activities to build the skills and capacities of audiovisual sector professionals

Slate funding aims to strengthen the position of a film production company on the European and international markets and to enable innovation. It supports the development of project packages of 3-5 projects (films or series in documentary, fiction or animation genre) that have high artistic value and represent cultural diversity. The submitted film projects must be suitable for international commercial exploitation in cinema, TV or online.
 
A strong financing strategy, strategies for engaging audiences, and detailed marketing and distribution strategies are already in demand in the development phase.
Independent European production companies that have at least 50% of the rights on the project submitted, have existed at least for three years and that have two reference projects that were produced within the last five years and released commercially in at least three countries outside their country of origin within the last two years , may submit an application for funding.

The funding can not exceed 50% of the total development budget amount, and lies between 10,000 € - 60,000 € per project.