Eurimages

Eurimages is the Council of Europe fund for the co-production, distribution, and digitisation of European cinematographic works. It aims to promote the European film industry by encouraging the production and distribution of films and fostering co-operation between professionals. Eurimages is located in Strasbourg, France. The Eurimages offices are in the Agora building of the Council of Europe.

The current chairman is Jobst Plog.

The fund was created in 1988 within the framework of the Council of Europe, as a Partial Agreement, under Committee of Ministers Resolution (88) 15, with an independent budget of 21M €. It has currently (as of 2016) 37 Member States. These member states are: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia,Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania,Russia, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.

Eurimages aims to promote the European film industry by encouraging the production and distribution of films and fostering co-operation between professionals. Eurimages has a clear cultural aim and is complementary to the Media programme of the European Union, which has an industrial goal. Eurimages has developed four funding programs: assistance for co-production, for distribution, to cinemas and support for digitisation of Eurimages funded projects.

The fund supports fiction films, animated films and documentaries (of minimum 70min) destined for theatrical release. A main condition of obtaining Eurimages support is that the project is an international co-production between at least two member states of Eurimages, but non-member states can also participate in the co-production. Other conditions of eligibility for projects applying for Eurimages support are:

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