Creative Europe – MEDIA sub-programme

According to the mid-term review of the Creative Europe programme 2014-2020, MEDIA has effectively supported cultural and linguistic diversity by promoting a genre called 'European cinema', by creating an appetite for diverse 'European' content and by supporting the distribution of films that would otherwise have found it more difficult to travel and be screened. Every year, MEDIA supports the distribution of over 400 films, reaching cross-border audiences of about 65 million per year. MEDIA also supports the development of about 400 new films per year, equivalent to 25% of Europe's production. The Programme has also brought together different players from different Member States, creating value for the whole European audiovisual sector. MEDIA also supports TV production, and has helped to support genres like Nordic noir. It has helped the audiovisual industry to scale up, for example through encouraging co – productions and by supporting transnational collaboration and networks as well as vibrant markets, thus building a European ecosystem. A high number of professionals from all segments of the audiovisual value have been involved in all the 14 actions that were contained in the programme 2014-2020. To give an idea, more than 16 000 professionals have been trained during 2014-2020. About 1800 professionals have attended the supported markets per year. About 1150 individual cinemas have been supported and 240 individual distributors have been supported per year.