Filmmakers – Opportunity for EU funding
We tried to make sense of it all on your behalf, but we’re never great with the small print in life. From our understanding, essentially, the EU has over R60 million to invest each year in African, Caribbean and Pacific based film projects, focusing on training initiatives, animation, documentaries and series with a view to exploring cultural stories from these areas. The call for proposals has just gone out, so if you’re a ‘veritable’ production company based in Africa wanting to tell your story or train people in film making and need some funding (doh!), make sure to kick off the process by scouring the site to see if you qualify and then rapidly getting all your ducks in the row as applications close early September and there’s lots to do before then. You know how the saying goes, if you don’t ask, you don’t get. We’d be interested to hear who, if anyone, manages to get some funding, so please keep us in the loop. More below:
The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States Secretariat (ACP Secretariat) launches a call for proposals financed by the “ACP-EU cooperation support programme for the ACP cinema and audiovisual sectors”, to support projects in the intra-ACP cinema and audiovisual fields, aiming at contributing to the development and structuring of the ACP States’ cinema and audiovisual industries, so that they can create and distribute their own images more effectively. It also aims to enable more promotion of cultural diversity, the networking of ACP cultural identities and intercultural dialogue.
The current call for proposals will award grants to three types of Actions in the cinema and audiovisual fields:
– Production projects of cinema and audiovisual (television) works (Lot 1)
– Promotion, distribution, dissemination and networking of the cinema and audiovisual sector in the ACP States (Lot 2)
– Professional development and training of ACP professionals in the cinema and audiovisual sector projects (Lot 3)
The full Guidelines for applicant can be consulted on the Programme website (http://www.acpfilms.eu), and on the EuropeAid Calls for proposals and tenders website
(http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/funding-opportunities/index_fr.htm).
he deadline for submission of proposals is 5 September 2008.
Kind use of image – thanks to Turkairo according to Creative Commons BY license.
