AUTOMATIC DISTRIBUTION

Every year distributors across Europe report to the MEDIA sub-programme on cinema admissions for the non-national European films they released in the previous year.

These admission figures form the basis for the calculations of the Automatic Distribution scheme grants, which can be used to pay minimum guarantees or print and advertising costs of new non-national European acquisitions.

In 2019 and 2020, three UK distribution companies were allocated grants totalling over €105,432.

COMPANY Magnetes Pictures Peccadillo Pictures StudioCanal GRANT AMOUNT € 59,000 17,289 29,143

105,432

Czech distributor Areofilms and Dutch distributor Cineart both received Automatic Distribution funding for British director Asif Kapadia’s 2019 documentary Diego Maradona. Together they received a total of €34,623 which was used to co-finance the minimum guarantees they paid to acquire the film for their territory. Image courtesy of Altitude Film Sales © El Grafico