UK MEDIA Team

MEDIA staff at the Executive Agency in Brussels

The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency has officially taken over the operational management of the MEDIA Programme as of 1 January 2006. This new Agency replaces the Technical Assistance Office (TAO) and assumes all the duties of the TAO including:

  • Preparing and launching calls for proposals (or tenders)
  • Evaluation and pre-selection of applicants and projects
  • Contracting and signing project agreements
  • Monitoring of projects (intermediate reports, final reports)
  • Communicating with and providing information to beneficiaries
  • On the spot controls


Former Head of MEDIA Unit within the European Commission, Costas Daskalakis, will manage the MEDIA portfolio within the new Executive Agency.

                                   
Head of MEDIA Unit
Constantin Daskalakis                          Telephone: 00 32 2 296 35 96


Deputy Head of MEDIA Unit
Domenico Raneri                                  Telephone: 00 32 2 296 21 20

 

Secretary to Head of MEDIA Unit

Chrissoula Stavrou                               Telephone: 00 32 2 298 43 02

 

General Secretary

Gerard Bérengère                                 Telephone: 00 32 2 299 26 75

 


Producer's support:


 

Development

(Single Project, Slate Funding, Interactive Projects)

 

 

Development - Selection Co-ordinator 

Soon-Mi Peten                                       Telephone: 00 32 2 298 07 42

 

Team Secretary

Muharem Serbes                                   Telephone: 00 32 2 296 36 65

UK (Slate Funding and Interactive Works), Malta, Croatia, France (Interactive Works)

Eamon O'Reilly                                      Telephone: 00 32 2 298 48 79

 

UK (Single Project), Switzerland, Austria

Anne Spangemacher                            Telephone: 00 32 2 295 73 02

 

France (Slate Funding and Creative Documentary), Spain (Slate Funding)   

David Raffier                                        Telephone: 00 32 2 298 55 35

Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Denmark

Virve Indren                                       Telephone: 00 32 2 298 05 54

Italy

Soon-Mi Peten                                    Telephone: 00 32 2 298 07 42

Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania

Margaret Palarczyk                            Telephone: 00 32 2 298 17 27

Greece, Cyprus, Ireland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

Eva Ntafitsopoulou                             Telephone: 00 32 2 298 52 56

 

France, Belgium, Luxembourg

Catherine Colomb-Nancy                   Telephone: 00 32 2 299 22 63

 

Portugal, Spain (Single Project)

Maria Canelas Da Silva                      Telephone: 00 32 2 299 81 08

 

Germany, The Netherlands

Martina Mueller                                  Telephone: 00 32 2 299 86 73

 

 


TV Broadcasting

 

 

Head of TV Broadcasting

Matteo Solaro                                    Telephone: 00 32 2 298 08 34

 

UK, Scandinavian countries, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus,

Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta,

Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia
Monica Galeriu                                   Telephone: 00 32 2 298 51 27

 

Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland
Laura Texier                                      Telephone: 00 32 2 298 09 23

 

 

 

i2i Audiovisual 

 

 

Head of i2i Audiovisual

Matteo Solaro                                    Telephone: 00 32 2 298 08 34 

 

Eleni Chandrinou                               Telephone: 00 32 2 298 04 20

Marie-Caroline De Candolle              Telephone: 00 32 2 298 41 66

 

 

 


Distribution

 

 

Head of sector

John Dick                                          Telephone: 00 32 2 299 76 68

 

Team secretary

Julie Decker                                      Telephone: 00 32 2 296 14 06

 

Legal issues

Judith Merkies                                  Telephone: 00 32 2 299  46 36

 

Team assistant

Reinhilde Paeps                                Telephone: 00 32 2 298 83 68


 


Selective Scheme     
Maud Rouxel                                    
Telephone: 00 32 2 298 08 22

Cynthia Nolmans                              Telephone: 00 32 2 299 20 51


Automatic Scheme  
Chris Miller                                       Telephone: 00 32 2 298 83 83

 

Pilot Projects and VoD/DCD

Clement Carasco                              Telephone: 00 32 2 298 55 76

 

Sales Agents' Scheme and company details
Anne Dumont Vandeputte                Telephone: 00 32 2 298 04 29 


Selection verification
Pierre Gavet                                     Telephone: 00 32 2 298 83 81

 

Film qualifications and Legal database

Gregory Parr                                    Telephone: 00 32 2 298 07 25


 

Monitoring (Payments)

 

Monitoring co-ordination

Jan Van Ryckeghem                          Telephone: 00 32 2 298 83 82

 

Audits and monitoring questions

Raymond Goverde                             Telephone: 00 32 2 298 05 40


Automatic Scheme Module 2

Dimitra Karetsa                                 Telephone: 00 32 2 298 63 47

 

Automatic Scheme Module 3 and Sales Agents Scheme  

Jean-Charles Freyer                          Telephone: 00 32 2 298 05 21


Selective Scheme       

Jan Van Ryckeghem                           Telephone: 00 32 2 298 83 82

Eleni Efstathiou                                  Telephone: 00 32 2 298 62 63

Cinema selective repayment issues

Pierre Gavet                                       Telephone: 00 32 2 298 83 81

 

Recovery orders

Ana-Rita Luterotti                              Telephone: 00 32 2 299 87 94

 

Pilot Projects and VoD/DCD

Elena Boggio                                      Telephone: 00 32 2 295 02 24

 

First payments

Reinhilde Paeps                                  Telephone: 00 32 2 298 83 68

 

Second payments

Raymond Goverde                              Telephone: 00 32 2 298 05 40

 

               

 

Promotion

 

Head of Promotion 

Arnaud Pasquali                                Telephone: 00 32 2 298 75 13

Market Access

Estelle Roger                                     Telephone: 00 32 2 298 07 87
Nathalie Ducher                                Telephone: 00 32 2 298 04 28
Dorletta Martin                                  Telephone: 00 32 2 298 06 71

Festivals
Gaël Broze                                          Telephone: 00 32 2 298 04 18
Julie Vanherck                                    Telephone: 00 32 2 298 54 69
Géraldine Hayez                                 Telephone: 00 32 2 298 52 97

Training
Maria Antonia Cuadrado                     Telephone: 00 32 2 298 04 22   
Pauline David                                      Telephone: 00 32 2 298 62 48
Marta Onzain                                       Telephone: 00 32 2 298 06 76
Natacha Mba Allo                                Telephone: 00 32 2 298 61 39

Pilot Projects
Clément Carasco                                Telephone: 00 32 2 298 55 76

Cinemas Network (Europa Cinemas)
Arnaud Pasquali                                 Telephone: 00 32 2 298 75 13

 


Finance


Fernando Centurione                          Telephone: 00 32 2 295 84 29
Liliane Mussche                                   Telephone: 00 32 2 295 40 89


 

 

Official mailing address for applications:
MEDIA Unit
Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
Bour 3/30
Avenue du Bourget 1
B 1049 Brussels
Belgium

 

Telephone: 00 32 2 296 35 96

Fax: 00 32 2 299 92 14



The MEDIA Unit within the European Commission will remain responsible for the political, institutional, budgetary and communication aspect of the programme as well as its overall evaluation.

The objectives of this reorganisation are to streamline the management and decision process and achieve a smoother, quicker and more efficient management of MEDIA funds as well as prepare for the next generation of the MEDIA Programme.