Films on the Move
CREA Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- CREA-MEDIA-2025-FILMOVE
- Programme
- Films on the Move
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- October 1, 2024
- Deadline
- March 20, 2025
- Deadline Model
- multiple cut-off
- Budget
- €16,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- CREA-MEDIA-2025-FILMOVECREA-MEDIA-2025-FILMOVE
Description
The Films on the Move action shall encourage and support the wider distribution of recent non-national European films by encouraging sales agents and theatrical distributors in particular to invest in promotion and adequate distribution of non- national European films.
Expected Results:
- Development of pan-European theatrical and/or online distribution strategies for non-national European films.
- Increased investment in theatrical and/or online promotion and distribution of non-national European films in view of expanding audience reach.
- Develop links between the production and distribution sector thus improving the competitive position of non-national European films on a global market
Description of the activities to be funded under the call for proposals:
The activities to be funded are campaigns for the pan-European theatrical and/or online distribution of eligible European films, coordinated by the sales agent of the film.
Applications should present adequate strategies to ensure more sustainable and more environmentally-respectful industry and to ensure gender balance, inclusion, diversity and representativeness.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in the call document
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible Countries
described in the call document
3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in the call document
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in the call document
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described in the call document
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
described in the call document
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in the call document
Publication of the call: SEPTEMBER, 26 2024.
Deadline for submitting applications:
1st cut-off Date MARCH, 20 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)
2nd cut-off Date JULY, 17 2025 17:00 (Brussels time).
Evaluation period:
1st cut-off Date MARCH-JUNE 2025
2nd cut-off Date JULY-OCTOBER 2025.
Information to applicants:
1st cut-off Date SEPTEMBER 2025
2nd cut-off Date JANUARY 2026.
Signature of grant agreement:
1st cut-off Date DECEMBER 2025
2nd cut-off Date APRIL 2026.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in the call document
Call document and annexes:
Application form templates
Standard application form (CREA MEDIA) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Information on independence and ownership (CREA MEDIA)
International film sales agreement
PDF with film(s)/work(s) information generated from the Creative Europe MEDIA Database
Letters of intent of distributors having acquired the theatrical rights from the sales agent detailing Promotion and Advertisement (P&A) costs
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Additional documents:
Support & Resources
For help related to this call, please contact:
· your local Creative Europe desk
· or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.
IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and evaluation to reporting on your ongoing project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
Latest Updates
Evaluation results – 1st cut-off (deadline of 20/03/2025)
Available budget for the call (for the two deadlines): EUR 16.000.000
40% for the 1st cut-off date
60% for the 2nd cut-off date
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
· Number of proposals submitted: 20
. Number of inadmissable proposals: 0
· Number of ineligible proposals: 1
.Number of withdrawn proposal(s): 0
· Number of above-threshold proposals: 16
· Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 11.395.694,52
We informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals upon 02/07/2025.
For questions, please contact [email protected]
The call CREA-MEDIA-2025-FILMOVE 1st cut-off “Film of the Move” has closed on 20 March 2025 at 17:00:00 CET (Brussels).
20 proposals have been submitted.
The evaluation results are expected to be communicated in July 2025.