Last year, the new initiative MEDIA International granted €5 million in forty awards to organisations that will help European audiovisual professionals establish links and develop partnerships with their colleagues on other continents. The objective of the initiative is to encourage co-production and increase the circulation of projects between Europe and other parts of the world. 2010 will see a steady flow of these projects being launched. 

To date, eight MEDIA International-supported projects have published their calls for submissions. Please click on each project title to learn more.

Co-production workshops for feature film producers:

Trans Atlantic Partners: Erich Pommer Institute organised co-production workshop for Europe and Canada

EAVE Puentes: explores co-production between Europe and Latin America

EAVE Ties that Bind: Asia: co-productions with Asia are the subject of this project

Interchange: organised by TorinoFilmLab, EAVE and the Dubai International Film Festival, suitable for both fiction and documentary projects

Co-production workshops for documentary filmmakers:

Asian Side of the Doc - Sunny Side of the Doc ventures out to Asia

Greenhouse: a project that encourages the collaboration of documentary filmmakers from Europe and MEDA countries.

Crossing Borders: a joint project by Documentary Campus and the European Documentary Network to encourage collaboration between European documentary filmmakers and those from Australia, China, Singapore and Korea. 

For distributors, exhibitors and festival managers:

Cine Sin Fronteras: a CICAE project that aims to encourage the circulation of cinematic works between Europe and Latin America.