European Film sales agent
Creative Europe · Grant topic
Summary
In our view, a Polish company will not get R&D or investment funding here.
Supports film sales companies reinvesting performance-based funds in European film sales rights, promotion, marketing and advertising.
- Who can apply
- A company can lead the project. Applicants: SMEs, large companies.
- Amount
- €6MCall budget
- Deadline
- 17 Jun 2027in 235 days
- Status
- Forthcomingopens 29 Apr 2027
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
Objective:
Expected results:
-Improvement in the trans-national distribution of recent non-national European films.
-Increase in the investment in the production, acquisition, promotion, theatrical and online distribution of non-national European films.
-Develop links between the production and distribution sector thus improving the competitive position of non-national European films.
Description of the activities:
There are two phases for the funded activities:
1. The generation of a potential fund which will be attributed according to the performance of the company on markets in countries participating in the Media programme as well as in other geographical markets.
2. The implementation of the action - the potential fund thus generated by each company must be reinvested in:
-minimum guarantees or advances paid for the international sales rights on eligible non-national European films;
-the promotion, marketing and advertising on the market of eligible non-national European films.
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- SME, large company
- Purpose
- Culture and media
- R&D relevance
- 0 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- —
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Single applicant
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Topics
- European film sales
- International distribution
- Film rights acquisition
- Film marketing
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Amounts and costs
- Call budget
- €6,000,000
Indicative topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
Call facts
- Opens
- 29 Apr 2027
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Creative Europe · 2021–2027
- Call
- CREA-MEDIA-2027-FILMSALES · European Film Sales
- Types of action
- CREA Project Grants
- Keywords
- european films
- film distribution
- films sales
- sales agent
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 25 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 6 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.