Glossary
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European production company
A company whose main activity is audiovisual production and which is registered in one of the Member States of the European Union or the countries participating in the MEDIA Programme, and which is owned and continues to be owned, either directly or via majority participation by nationals from these countries.
European audiovisual works
- the work must be majority produced by companies established in one or more countries participating in the MEDIA PLUS Programme
and
- the work must be produced with the significant participation of professionals who are nationals/residents of countries participating in the MEDIA PLUS programme. 'Significant participation' is defined as having 10 or more points on the basis of the table below, (or the biggest share of points if the total is less than 19 in the case of documentaries or animation films):
| POINTS | |
| Director | 3 |
| Scriptwriter | 3 |
| Composer | 1 |
| Actor 1 | 2 |
| Actor 2 | 2 |
| Actor 3 | 2 |
| Artistic Director / Production Designer | 1 |
| Director of Photography | 1 |
| Editor | 1 |
| Sound | 1 |
| Shooting Location | 1 |
| Laboratory | 1 |
| TOTAL | 19 |
European independent production company
"European" means registered in Europe and majority owned by European nationals
"Independent" means independent from broadcasters i.e. no more than 25% of a production company's share capital is held by a single broadcaster (50% where several broadcasters are involved) or where, over a three-year period, less than 90% of a production company's revenue is generated from sales to a single broadcaster.
"Production company" means a business which has the production of audiovisual works as its main activity. Applications from individuals are not eligible for funding and cannot be submitted.
Eligible categories of projects
Only the following categories of audiovisual projects are eligible for support by MEDIA's Development funding and TV Broadcasting schemes, or as the complementary work for an Interactive Project application:
* Fiction (one-off and series, minimum duration 50 minutes)
* Creative documentary (one-off and series, minimum duration 25 minutes)
* Animation (one-off or series, minimum duration 24 minutes).