MEDIA Programme: Preparatory Action ‘Circulation of films in the digital era’

The preparatory action will support projects designed to test the simultaneous (or virtually simultaneous) release of films across all media and in several European territories.
The projects — which will be restricted to European cinematographic works and to the distribution thereof within the EU Member States — must cover a significant number of films and territories.
This size-related parameter is essential if meaningful lessons are to be drawn from the preparatory action and if the latter is to be established as an aid to decision-makers within the public authorities and the European film industry.
Hence projects must also include the organisation — at the end of the action — of a public meeting at which the main results of the investigations carried out and the lessons drawn from them will be presented to film professionals and public authorities.