MEDIA in the UK 2012 by Creative Europe Desk UK

MEDIA in the UK 2012

The Angelsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Share, directed by Ken Loach, received MEDIA Selective scheme funding in 2012. Image courtesy of Sixteen Films, photo by Joss Barratt

Contents

Amour, directed by Michael Haneke, received MEDIA Selective scheme funding in 2012. Image courtesy of Artificial Eye.

Great Expectations, directed by Mike Newell, received MEDIA Development and Automatic scheme funding in 2012. Image courtesy of Lionsgate.

Introduction

MEDIA Desk UK and Antennae activities in 2012

Distribution and exhibition Theatrical distribution Online distribution Exhibition Europa Cinemas

06 06 10 10 11

Production companies Development i2i Audiovisual Interactive projects TV Broadcasting

12 12 14 14 15

Skills development Film students Continuous Training

16 16 17

Markets and festivals Audiovisual Festivals Access to Markets Promotional Events European Film Awards Film Sales Support

18 18 19 20 20 21

New Technologies

Circulation of Films in the Digital Era

22 03

Introduction

Agnieszka Moody, Director, MEDIA Desk UK © Grzegorz Lepiarz

2012 was a very good year for the UK. In total, British companies received just over €9 million through the MEDIA Programme, which is €1.6 million more than in 2011. A further €7.6 million was invested in the distribution of over 50 British films in other European countries. Producers were awarded the largest share of the UK’s funding, with 33 companies receiving €3.6 million through successful applications from all over the UK. Several projects previously funded by MEDIA’s development schemes also completed production in 2012, including Mike Newell’s Great Expectations, Jeremy Thomas-produced Kon-Tiki and Neil Jordan’s Byzantium. The MEDIA Programme also supported the theatrical releases of British films on the continent, with the largest amount of nearly

€1 million going to Quartet, followed by over €800,000 for Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and €600,000 for Working Title's I Give it a Year.

for the launch of a new financing facility to encourage commercial lending to the creative industries.

UK distributors released 20 European films with MEDIA support, including the multi-award winning Amour, A Royal Affair, The Hunt and Love is All You Need.

We live in a time when dancers make films, actors star in augmented reality games, cinemas screen opera performances, and the boundaries between diciplines continue to blur. Such imaginative collaboration is greatly aided and encouraged by digital technologies. Creative Europe will bring this converging creative world closer together, and I look forward to seeing the effects of that increased proximity in the months and years to come.

MEDIA is committed to supporting innovation and understands that business models in the audiovisual industry must evolve following developments in digital technologies. In this vein, the UK’s Artificial Eye took advantage of new MEDIA funding, leading EDAD (European Dayand-Date): an international distribution initiative which will experiment with simultaneous releases across multiple territories. With MEDIA due to expire at the end of the year, 2012 was also a year of negotiations on its successor programme, Creative Europe. While at the time of going to print the final shape, scope and budget of the new programme is still subject to negotiations, we know that Europe, even in a time of severe financial crisis, hasn't given up on its diverse culture. The latest proposal, which now reflects the EU budget cuts, still includes a 9% increase on current funding levels, which will allow

€9.1 million MEDIA funding received by UK companies in 2012

€7.6 million MEDIA funding awarded to UK films in 2012

MEDIA Desk UK and Antennae activities in 2012

Throughout the year the UK’s MEDIA offices in London, Glasgow and Pontypridd were busy with the day-to-day administration and promotion of the 17 funding schemes offered by the MEDIA Programme. MEDIA Desk UK alone answered 2,573 funding enquiries and conducted 128 advice meetings with UK audiovisual professionals. The Desk also produced a number of printed publications, issued monthly e-bulletins with MEDIA news from the UK and beyond, and managed the UK’s online presence through our website: www.mediadeskuk.eu Importantly, the UK’s MEDIA Desk and Antennae are part of a network of 44 MEDIA offices across Europe, and offer support on finding partners and connections in other European countries.

Aberdeen

London

• Aberdeen roadshow, March

• Creative Europe and Development funding information session at the British Library, March • ‘What's New in Distribution?’ seminar on MEDIA distribution schemes, April • ‘Navigating Co-production’ seminar at the East End Film Festival, July • ‘Collectively Engaged’ seminar on MEDIA support for interactive transmedia projects, in partnership with Body>Data>Space, at the European Commission’s Representation in the UK, September • ‘Facing Windows’ seminar on distribution in partnership with Europa Distribution, part of the 56th BFI London Film Festival industry events programme, October

Birmingham • MEDIA at BFI ‘Film Forever’ roadshow at MAC, November

Bristol • ‘Sucessful Co-production’ seminar, part of Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival industry programme, September • MEDIA Desk UK industry reception, part of Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival industry programme, September • MEDIA at BFI ‘Film Forever’ roadshow at Watershed, November

Cardiff

• Documentary Pitching workshop, March • Wales Games Development show, June • Co-production seminar at the Producers Forum, October • Games Development South Wales seminar, November

Derry/Londonderry • MEDIA at BFI ‘Film Forever’ roadshow at the Playhouse, November

Dundee • Dundee Roadshow, March • Scottish Games industry recruitment fair, March

Edinburgh

The UK offices also organise, support and attend a number of information and promotional events across the country. In 2012 locations included Bristol, Glasgow and Londonderry.

• Edinburgh roadshow, March • Animation breakfast at Edinburgh International Film Festival, June

Glasgow • Glasgow roadshow, February • ‘Funders, Followers, Fans’ documentary event with Sheffield Doc/Fest, March

Newport • Development funding speed networking event, March

Salford • MEDIA at BFI ‘Film Forever’ roadshow at The Quays, November

Sheffield • MEDIA Co-production dinner at Sheffield Doc/Fest in collaboration with the MEDIA Antennae in Scotland and Wales and Desks in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Belgium, June • MEDIA funding presentation at the Media Lunch Club, June • MEDIA information session at the Children’s Media Conference, July • MEDIA information session at Northern Business Incubator’s Summer School, July

Swansea • CEMAS Mobile App show, September

Inverness • Inverness roadshow, March

Distribution and exhibition

Theatrical distribution MEDIA allocates more than half of its annual €100 million budget to helping European films see international releases. This is achieved through three funding schemes: Selective, Automatic and Sales Agents. UK films funded through the Selective scheme In 2012 seven UK films had their European releases enhanced by the MEDIA Selective scheme. This resulted in a greater number of prints, more generous marketing campaigns and ultimately larger audiences. Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut, Quartet, which stars a host of time-honoured British acting talent, was awarded €836,500 by MEDIA to be released in 18 countries across Europe. Lasse Hallström’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Dan Mazer’s I Give it a Year and Ken Loach’s adaptation of The Angels’ Share also secured large MEDIA awards: €783,300, €582,400 and €452,700 respectively. Following MEDIA Selective support for its release in 14 European countries in 2011, Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur also gained further support through the scheme for its release in France in 2012. The film continued to win numerous awards including a BAFTA for Best Director.

Film

No. of countries

I Give it a Year

582,400

Quartet

836,500

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

783,300

Shadow Dancer

338,000

Shame The Angels’ Share Tyrannosaur

Award (€)

1,800

452,700

18,000

Love is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør), directed by Susanne Bier, received MEDIA Selective scheme funding in 2012. Image courtesy of Arrow Films.

3,012,700

€3,012,700 Total MEDIA Selective scheme funding awarded to UK films in 2012

A Royal Affair (En kongelig affære), directed by Nikolaj Arcel, received MEDIA Selective scheme funding in 2012. Photo by Jiri Hanzl.

The Hunt (Jagten), directed by Thomas Vinterberg, received MEDIA Selective scheme funding in 2012. Image courtesy of Arrow Films.

UK distributors funded through the Selective scheme In 2012 UK distributors released a range of European films on British screens with MEDIA funding that totalled €813,500. MEDIA-supported films included The Hunt (Jagten), for which lead actor Mads Mikkelsen won the Best Actor award at Cannes. Michael Haneke’s Amour, Cate Shortland’s Lore and Leos Carax’s Holy Motors were distributed in the UK with MEDIA support by Artificial Eye, enjoying considerable success at the box office alongside critical acclaim.

€813,500 Total MEDIA Selective scheme funding awarded to UK distributors in 2012

Distribution company

Film

Arrow Film Distributors

Love is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør) The Hunt (Jagten) A Hijacking (Kapringen)

Artificial Eye

“The MEDIA Programme often makes the difference to a distributor of our size. It gives us breathing space in a highly competitive landscape and helps the films we have acquired by generating a larger prints and advertising budget, which in turn gives the film the best chance of succeeding in the UK. Without the promise of the fund on key European acquisitions, we would not able to be as aggressive as we are in the marketplace. For example Love is All You Need was released on 110 copies and achieved nearly £700,000 in box office.” Alex Agran, Managing Director, Arrow Film Distributors

Amour

Award (€)

UK Box Office (£)

100,000

684,654

90,000

227,582

32,000

101, 122

125,000

882,815

Beyond the Hills (Dupa Dealuri)

50,000

60,591

Holy Motors

60,000

243,320

Lore

40,000

291,635

Independent Film Sales

Reality

8,000

Metrodome Distribution

The Deep (Djupid)

38,847

62,000

UK release Jul 2013

New Wave Films

A Royal Affair (En kongelig affære)

83,000

373,064

Caesar Must Die (Cesare deve morire)

12,000

34,105

Tabu

10,000

60,445

In the Fog (V Tumane)

10,500

10,557

Peccadillo Pictures

Kuma

24,000

UK release Aug 2013

Soda Pictures

Babycall

10,000

9,016

Barbara

40,000

198,076

Sister (L'enfant d'en haut)

24,000

17,209

Paradise: Love (Paradies: Liebe)

28,000

9,323

5,000

UK release Jul 2013

813,500

3,233,038

Play

Distribution and exhibition

UK films funded through the Automatic scheme The MEDIA Automatic scheme rewards distributors for the box office success of films from European countries other than their own (non-national films). Recipients can use funding from this scheme to invest in minimum guarantees or to subsidise the distribution costs of new non-national European acquisitions. 51 UK films shared a total of €4,591,091 from the 2012 MEDIA Automatic scheme. The highest awards were granted to Paul W.S. Anderson’s The Three Musketeers, with €314,345 support, followed by Stephan Elliott’s A Few Best Men with €254,668 and David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method with €247,548.

Film

Award (€)

360

149,786

The Trip

A Dangerous Method

247,548

The Woman in Black

A Few Best Men

254,668

Tinker, Tailor, Soilder, Spy

136,741

All in Good Time

8,800

Trishna

149,059

Another Year

1,747

TT3D: Closer to the Edge

15,345

Tyrannosaur

18,000 20,000

Attack the Block

101,707

Broken

13,400

UFO in Her Eyes

Coriolanus

97,627

Valhalla Rising

314,345 93,065 10,020

2,800

Great Expectations

236,156

W.E.

94,049

Hysteria

216,366

We Need to Talk About Kevin

30,645

I Give it a Year

243,154

Weekend

45,823

I, Anna

30,000

Welcome to the Punch

Kill List

16,000

West is West

104,193

Mr. Nice

4,889

Wuthering Heights

124,949

NEDS

9,465

You Instead

Now is Good One Life Only Lovers Left Alive

9,799 41,003 108,000

Quartet

112,052

Romeo and Juliet

15,943

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

89,358

€4,591,091

Shadow Dancer

Total MEDIA Automatic scheme funding awarded to UK films in 2012

Song for Marion

Shame Sightseers

22,500

directed by Dan Mazer, received MEDIA Automatic scheme funding in 2012. Image courtesy of StudioCanal.

1,600 137,473 220,586

The Awakening

162,447 74,204 56,357 174,331

The Inbetweeners Movie

30,270

The Iron Lady

69,170

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

I Give It a Year,

169,109

The Angels’ Share

The Double

604 4,591,091

180,792

Streetdance 2 3D

The Dinosaur Project

6,431

80,000

Perfect Sense

The Deep Blue Sea

38,715 continued >

The Three Musketeers

Trishna, directed by Michael Winterbottom, received MEDIA Automatic scheme funding in 2012. Image courtesy of Artificial Eye. © Marcel Zyskind

UK distributors funded through the Automatic scheme Every year distributors across Europe report to MEDIA on cinema admissions for the nonnational European films they released in the previous year. These admissions form the basis for the calculation for MEDIA Automatic scheme grants. The funding can be used to pay minimum guarantees and distribution costs on new nonnational European films. On the basis of the 2011 admissions, the UK distributors were allocated the following awards: Distributor Cinefile New Wave Films Pathé Productions Peccadillo Pictures Picturehouse Entertainment Soda Pictures StudioCanal Artificial Eye Trinity Filmed Entertainment

Award (€) 5,000 23,260 66,673 11,506 10,304 20,615 206,217 149,844 21,878 515,297

"The value of MEDIA funding extends all the way down the lifeline of a film. The various schemes that the MEDIA Programme offers can come into play at every stage, from the conception of a title to getting it projected onto screens across the continent. At Number 9, we've seen MEDIA really impact the life of a film from both ends of the spectrum: through key funding as early as development stage, yes, but also through helping to screen our titles across Europe. MEDIA's Automatic grant helped Great Expectations to reach cinemas in Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, The Netherlands and Slovenia. By financing a film's distribution Europe-wide, the benefits of MEDIA support are once again reflected back to us as producers. It helps our work to be exported across borders, getting it in front of new and international audiences, building our profile, and showcasing our national filmic identity."

Funding for UK sales agents The Sales Agents scheme allocates €1.5 million a year and is linked to an agent’s performance in selling European films. The funding awarded depends on the amount of cinema admissions generated by the films sold in the previous calendar year, and can be used for acquisitions (sales guarantees) as well as the promotion and marketing costs of non-national European films. Two UK sales companies took advantage of this scheme in 2012. Sales Agents HanWay Films Limited Pathé Fund Limted (Pathe Int.)

Award (€) 109,577 33,959 143,536

€143,536 Total MEDIA Sales Agents funding awarded to UK sales agents in 2012

Stephen Woolley, Producer, Number 9 Films

€515,297 Total MEDIA Automatic scheme funding awarded to UK distributors in 2012

Distribution and exhibition

Online distribution

Exhibition

VoD and DCD Since 2007 MEDIA has been supporting online content distribution via the VoD/DCD scheme, which funds video-on-demand platforms and the digital delivery of film to cinemas. In 2012 over €6.7 million was invested in platforms that offer European content to audiences worldwide. Three UK operators successfully secured MEDIA VoD/DCD funding, including the new online initiative from Curzon Cinemas, which was awarded €400,000.

Europa Cinemas is a MEDIA-funded network which screens significantly more European films, and in particular non-national European films, than most cinemas. The average percentage of European programming in Europa Cinemas during 2012 was 63%. The network has become a trusted brand that clearly signposts access to European cinema for film-goers.

Company Curzon Cinemas Distrify

Project Curzon on Demand Muvies.com

Award (€) 400,000 337,103 737,103

There are 54 member cinemas in the UK, and four of these joined the network in 2012: Gloucester Guildhall (Gloucester), The Courtyard (Hereford), Plymouth Arts Centre (Plymouth) and Reading Film Theatre (Reading). The 54 cinemas shared €883,500 between them in 2012. Recipient 54 cinemas in the UK

€737,103 Total MEDIA VoD/DCD scheme funding awarded to UK services in 2012

“The support and funding we have received from the MEDIA programme, and in particular from our membership of the Europa Cinemas network, has been a vital component in allowing us to develop a really diverse and exciting film programme at the Showroom. We have built audience trust in our range of European films over an extended period, which would have been difficult to achieve without the network. Showcomotion, our annual film festival for young people, has consistently presented the best European children’s films to a family audience in Sheffield. It was only possible to build the festival to the present level with MEDIA investment in the early development stages.” Ian Wild, Chief Executive, Showroom cinema and exhibition centre

Award (€) 883,500 883,500

Untouchable (Intouchables), directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, was the best performing film in the Europa Cinemas network in the UK and across Europe in 2012.

€883,500 Total MEDIA funding awarded to Europa Cinemas UK members in 2012

Barbican Cinemas 2 and 3, London © Sidd Khajuria

Chapter, Cardiff

The Cameo, Edinburgh

Derby QUAD cinema, Derby © Graham Lucas Commons

The Lexi Cinema, London

UK cinemas in the Europa Cinemas network Aldeburgh Cinema, Aldeburgh • Barbican Cinema, London • BFI Southbank, London • Broadway, Nottingham • Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge • Cameo, Edinburgh • Chapter, Cardiff • Chelsea Cinema, London • Chichester Cinema at New Park, Chichester • Ciné Lumière, London • Cinema City, Norwich • Cornerhouse, Manchester • Curzon Mayfair, London • Curzon Soho, London • DCA Cinema, Dundee • Derby Quad Cinema, Derby • Duke of York’s Picturehouse, Brighton • Eden Court Theatre, Inverness • Filmhouse, Edinburgh • Forum Cinema, Northampton • Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow • Gloucester Guildhall, Gloucester • Hyde Park Picturehouse, Leeds • ICA Cinema, London • Ipswich Film Theatre, Ipswich • Light House, Wolverhampton • Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Ludlow

• mac birmingham, Birmingham • Phoenix Cinema, London • Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford • Phoenix Square, Leicester • Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool • Pictureville, Bradford • Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth • Queens Film Theatre, Belfast • Reading Film Theatre, Reading • Renoir, London • Richmond Filmhouse, Richmond • Rio Cinema, London • Riverside Studios, London • Saffron Screen, Saffron Walden • Shortwave, London • Showroom, Sheffield • Stoke Film Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent • Strode Film Theatre, Street • The Barn Cinema, Dartington • The Courtyard, Hereford • The Gate, London • The Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury • The Lexi Cinema, London • Tricycle Cinema, London • Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle • Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford • Watershed Media Centre, Bristol

Production companies

Development

Hyde Park on Hudson,

In 2012 UK production companies secured €1,757,565 worth of MEDIA Development Funding.

€1,757,565 Total MEDIA Development funding awarded to UK production companies in 2012

Slate Funding Six UK production companies shared almost €1 million MEDIA funding to support slates of projects, including Daybreak Pictures, Revolution Films, Wildgaze Films & Film and Music Entertainment. Production company

Genre(s)

Daybreak Pictures

Fiction

Award (€) 188,510

Dinamo Productions

Animation

150,000

Film & Music Entertainment

Fiction/Documentary

166,392

Revolution Films

Fiction

190,000

Wellington Films

Fiction

143,622

Wildgaze Films

Fiction

119,410 957,934

Byzantium

“The funding that Revolution Films has received from MEDIA has been a vital lifeline in the current economic climate. It has allowed us to continue developing and evolving as an independent company. I think MEDIA leads the way in how to best help the sustainability of film production companies in Europe. Long may it continue.”

directed by Neil Jordan, was developed with MEDIA funding and released in 2013.

Andrew Eaton, Producer, Revolution Films

directed by Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, was developed with MEDIA funding and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2013. Image courtesy of Carl Christian Raabe © Recorded Picture Company.

Kon Tiki,

Single Project Funding The Single Project funding scheme awarded support to 19 UK production companies for the development of animation, documentary and drama projects in 2012, including Cutlass Productions’ animation Royo and Bopp, Warp Films’ fiction Tommy Simpson: Put Me Back On My Bike, and Old Street Films’ documentary The Hottest Place on Earth. “The Single Project development funding we received from MEDIA has enabled King Rollo Films to put together a trailer and bible in record time - a lifeline for us as a smaller company with big ambition and passion for our project. Thanks to the grant, we have been able to work with co-creators of the highest quality, delivering a project that is ready for market. None of this would have happened without the advice and continued support of MEDIA Desk UK.” Leo Nielsen, Managing Director, King Rollo Films

Production company

Project

Category

Altered Image Films

Lust for Life

Fiction

Award (€) 60,000

Amber Film and Photography Collective

Unredacted

Documentary

10,900

Aprroaching Fish Productions

Three Way Week

Fiction

50,000

Bard Entertainments

The Last Poet

Documentary

20,000

Cutlass Productions

Royo and Bopp

Animation

24,999

Faction Films

Gaddafi's Girls

Documentary

50,000

Fiction Factory

Mathias/Hinterland

Fiction

45,000

Ipso Facto Films

This Beautiful Fantastic

Fiction

40,000

King Rollo Films

Pecanpals

Animation

53,462

Miraj Films

The Hurricanes

Fiction

25,000

Mosaic Films

Nothing to Envy

Animation

80,000

Old Street Films

The Hottest Place on Earth

Documentary

25,000

Pathchwork Productions

Nitrate

Fiction

24,921

Rainmark Films Two

The Mitfords

Fiction

60,000

Red Bird Media

Special

Documentary

26,884

The Salt Company

Dolphin: A 3D Adventure

Documentary

60,000

Thin Man Films

Mike Leigh Turner Project

Fiction

60,000

Warp Films

Tommy Simpson: Put Me Back On My Bike

Fiction

50,000

Webra Multimedia

Schoolday

Documentary

33,465 799,631

Bel Ami, directed by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod, was developed with MEDIA funding and released in 2012. Image courtesy of StudioCanal.

Production companies

i2i Audiovisual One UK producer successfully applied to the MEDIA i2i Audiovisual scheme which helps with the costs of financing a film project. Ruairi Robinson’s Sci-Fi thriller The Last Days on Mars, which received funding from the scheme in 2012, has gone on to see its world premiere at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight, whilst producer Andrea Cornwell was selected for European Film Promotion’s MEDIA-funded initiative, Producers on the Move. Production company

Project

Award (€)

Qwerty Films Ltd

The Last Days on Mars

50,000 50,000

The Last Days on Mars, produced by Qwerty Films, received MEDIA i2i Audiovisual funding in 2012. Photograph by Nick Wall.

“The Last Days on Mars was an ambitious project from the start: the goal being to bring in an internationally competitive, high spec film on a modest budget. The i2i Audiovisual funding from MEDIA simplified and streamlined things and, crucially, contributed to our financial solvency so we could maintain the production's momentum. More than just a subsidy, the funding represented an opportunity for us: to focus, to move the project forward, and to deploy funds where they were most needed. We are looking forward to an end of year, worldwide release. We are very proud of the film and feel that the warm and enthusiastic reaction from audiences and buyers alike is vindication that we have achieved our goal. We are very grateful to MEDIA's i2i funding for its vital role in this." Michael Kuhn, Qwerty Films

Interactive projects MEDIA provides funding for the development of interactive projects that complement an existing traditional audiovisual project, or a project in development. In 2012 the Interactive Projects scheme invested €85,075 in a single UK interactive media company: Nexus Productions. Developer

Project

Nexus Productions

Radio Jones: Roboteer

Award (€) 85,075 85,075

Radio Jones: Roboteer, developed by Nexus Productions, received MEDIA funding for Interactive Projects in 2012.

TV Broadcasting

€85,075 Total MEDIA Interactive Projects funding awarded to UK companies in 2012

“Cross-media is the word on everybody’s lips but it is difficult to come across funding that engages with this meaningfully. MEDIA’s Interactive scheme is innovative and up-to-date with the industry’s needs. Our MEDIA grant has proven invaluable in allowing us to develop the Radio Jones: Roboteer concept confidently and broaden the world of our animated creation to a wider, digital, interactive space.” Chris O'Reilly, Writer and Producer, Nexus Productions

Boj and Buddies,

MEDIA also helps to produce television programmes for international distribution. In 2012 UK television producers received over €1.8 million to co-finance international animation, documentary and drama programmes. These included Tigerlily Films’ documentary The Lovers and the Despot, Rebuilding Noah's Ark by Blink Entertainment and children’s animation programme, Boj and Buddies, by Pesky Productions. Production company

Project

Pesky Productions

Boj and Buddies

Blink Entertainment

Rebuilding Noah's Ark

218,803

Urban Canyons

Samurai Headhunters

275,766

Luna W Limited

Exercise of Life

265,653

Fiction Factory

Hinterland/Mathias

500,000

Tigerlily Films

The Lovers and the Despot

by Pesky Productions, received MEDIA TV Broadcasting funding in 2012. Image courtesy of David Hodgson.

The Lovers and the Despot, produced by Tigerlily Films, received MEDIA TV Broadcasting funding in 2012.

Award (€) 500,000

63,684 1,823,906

Samurai Headhunters, produced by Urban Canyons, received MEDIA TV Broadcasting funding in 2012.

€1,823,906 Total MEDIA TV Broadcasting funding awarded to UK producers in 2012

Skills development

Film students MEDIA recognises the fundamental role that training plays in the film industry and annually invests around €2 million in encouraging networking and shared projects among the students of various European film schools. In 2012 the Initial Training scheme was keenly utilised by three UK film schools, and the London Film School received funding for two courses: the sixth edition of the European Low Budget Film Forum and the second year of their marketing and distribution skills course, Making Waves. Organisation

Training scheme

Edinburgh Napier University

ENGAGE V

London International Film School

Award (€) 150,000

European Low Budget Film Forum

67,500

London International Film School

Making Waves

67,500

University of Wales, Newport

Transform@lab

83,129 368,129

“MEDIA Initial Training support for ENGAGE has been invaluable in allowing us and our partners in Ireland, Estonia and Finland to help young filmmakers take their first steps towards international collaboration. MEDIA has backed us since 2008 and through this we have been able to connect more than 150 new writers, producers and directors from across Europe, enabling them to experience the process not just of developing film and television projects, but also building a network of emerging professionals that they will draw on in years to come. With this scheme, MEDIA funding has helped us to set a great many industry professionals on an ambitious path. Our graduates can be found everywhere from screening their films at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, to co-ordinating distribution for the British Film Institute, or winning the best screenplay award in Athens.” Robin MacPherson, Director, Edinburgh Napier University

€368,129 Total MEDIA Initial Training funding invested in UK projects in 2012

Transform@lab, a course run by the University of Wales, Newport, received MEDIA Initial Training funding in 2012. Photo by Hannah Trott.

Continuous Training Each year MEDIA supports more than 60 international professional training programmes, which teach industry skills ranging from marketing to script development and new technologies to finance. 2012 saw five UK training providers successfully secure MEDIA funding for their initiatives including, for the first time, ENTER Training for Financiers, run by Peacefulfish. Organisation

Training scheme

Independent Cinema Office

Developing Your Film Festival 2013 - 2014

National Film and Television School

Inside Pictures 2013

Peacefulfish

ENTER - Training for Professionals

Power to the Pixel

The Pixel Lab

Seize the Media

Transmedia Next: Storytelling in the 21st Century

Award (€)

“MEDIA has co-financed our ENTER training series and funded the ‘Training Financiers for the Content Industry’ course in 2012. With this support we have been able to match MEDIA’s own goal, improving the competitiveness of the European film industry, by helping those that are not yet active in the sector to identify financing and investment opportunities and to better evaluate risks. MEDIA’s Continuous Training initiative means that, as film professionals we can help the finance sector meeting demand and needs from our industry.”

The National Film and Television School’s

Inside Pictures course received MEDIA Continuous Training funding in 2012.

Power to the Pixel’s

Thierry Baujard, CEO, Peacefulfish

43,604 The Independent Cinema Office’s

212,716 60,044 210,000 50,000 576,364

€576,364 Total MEDIA Continuous Training funding invested in UK courses in 2012

Developing Your Film Festival workshop received MEDIA Continuous Training funding in 2012. Image courtesy of the Motovun Film Festival.

Markets and festivals

Audiovisual Festivals MEDIA helps to expand audiences for European film by supporting festivals devoted to showcasing European audiovisual content. The funded festivals take place all over Europe. Two UK festivals were awarded MEDIA grants in 2012: Bristol Encounters and Leeds International Film Festival. Organisation

Festival

Leeds City Council

Leeds International Film Festival

Encounters Festivals

Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival

Award (â&#x201A;Ź) 29,000 26,482 55,482

Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival received MEDIA Audiovisual Festivals funding in 2012.

Leeds International Film Festival received MEDIA Audiovisual Festivals funding in 2012.

â&#x201A;Ź55,482 Total MEDIA funding invested in UK festivals in 2012

Access to Markets MEDIA offers support to a wide variety of networking events, festivals and markets to promote European audiovisual works and facilitate the mobility of professionals. The support can take various forms, such as the MEDIA Stand, which offers reduced accreditation and hosting to European independent producers at major film markets in Berlin and Cannes. Through its Access to Markets scheme MEDIA also offers funding to companies which organise industry events, markets, pitching forums, etc. In 2012 four UK organisations were awarded MEDIA Access to Markets funding for their events. These were: Power to the Pixel’s Pixel Market, Film London’s Production Finance Market, held during the BFI London Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest’s MeetMarket, and the British Documentary Film Foundation’s Good Pitch Europe.

Organisation

Event

BRITDOC Foundation

Good Pitch Europe 2013

Award (€)

Sheffield International

MeetMarket 2012

129,721

Film London

Production Finance Market 2012

88,733*

Power to the Pixel

The Pixel Market

82,646*

75,000

Documentary Festival

376,100 * Estimate for second year funding based on 2011 figures.

€376,100 Total MEDIA Access to Markets funding invested in UK events in 2012

BRITDOC Foundation’s Good Pitch Europe received MEDIA Access to Markets funding in 2012.

“Power to the Pixel is delighted to have been awarded MEDIA funding over the past four years. Through co-financing The Pixel Market and The Pixel Lab, MEDIA supports our network of professionals active in innovative, cutting-edge areas such as cross-platform, digital and interactive media. For us, this represents a pivotal way to help media professionals optimise the visibility, the value and sales of their work. It creates a solid foundation of support as well as a unique and impressive showcase of some of the world's most innovative media projects. Knowing that MEDIA is behind us in creating this network, we can confidently let media companies and filmmakers out there know that we are here to help them - to improve their skills, to connect to new collaborators, financiers and audiences, and to create a strong and unique voice in the industry." Liz Rosenthal, CEO and founder, Power to the Pixel

Promotion and festivals

Promotional events The MEDIA Access to Markets scheme also funds European Film Promotion (EFP), an umbrella organisation that facilitates working relationships between Europe’s national film promotion organisations. EFP organises many events, including Shooting Stars, a showcase of Europe’s acting talent at the Berlin International Film Festival, and Producers on the Move, which is held at the Cannes Film Festival. The UK’s Shooting Star in 2012 was Riz Ahmed, who has starred in Ben Drew’s iLL Manors and Chris Morris’ Four Lions. The UK producer selected to take part in Producers on the Move in 2012 was Tracy O'Riordan from Moonspun Films. She recently worked on Clio Bernard’s The Selfish Giant which has won the 2013 Europa Cinemas Label.

Shame, directed by Steve McQueen, won the EFA cinematography and editing awards in 2012.

European Film Awards Every year the 2,700 members of the European Film Academy (EFA) vote to choose the winner of its annual awards from 40-50 selected films. In 2012 the 25th European Film Awards were held in Malta. Michael Haneke’s Amour, which was released in the UK by Artificial Eye with MEDIA support, took four prizes including European Film and European Director. The two UK films to receive nods from voting EFA members included Shame, which picked up both the European Editor award for Joe Walker and the Carlo di Palma European Cinematographer award for Sean Bobbitt. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was also successful, taking home the European Production Designer award for Maria Djurkovic and the European Composer award for Alberto Iglesias. The UK’s Dame Helen Mirren received the European Achievement in World Cinema award. In 2012 all films honoured at the European Film Awards, as well as the ceremony itself, received support from the MEDIA Programme.

Film Sales Support MEDIA also offers financial support for the promotion of films through European Film Promotions (EFP)’s Film Sales Support scheme. Film Sales Support enables producers and sales agents to promote their films at key festivals and markets around the world, including Sundance Film Festival in the USA and FILMART in Hong Kong.

€64,367 Total EFP Film Sales Support funding invested in UK companies and films in 2012

Sales company

Film

Event

Protagonist Pictures

Searching for Sugarman

Sundance

What Richard Did

Toronto

5,000

Grabbers

Sundance

4,934

The Salt Company

Award (€) 4,864

High Point Films

The Perfect Stranger

Shanghai

2,264

AV Pictures

Jump

Toronto

1,340

Bankside Films

Everyday

Toronto

2,075

ill Manors

Toronto

3,521

Ealing Metro International

Wasteland

Toronto

3,551

HanWay Films

London, The Modern Babylon

Toronto

1,246

Great Expectations

Toronto

5,000

Kon-Tiki

Toronto

2,500

Nakba FilmWorks

A World Not Ours

Toronto

4,828

West End Films

Byzantium

Toronto

5,000

Love Bite

American Film Market

5,000 1,273

Studiocanal (France)

All in Good Time

FILMART

Doc & Film International

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology

Toronto

5,000

Bac Films Distribution

Shell

Asian Film Market

1,377

Le Pacte

The Patience Stone

Asian Film Market

Celluloid Dreams

Breathing Earth The Comedian

2,272 1,664

American Film Market

1,660 64,367

New technologies

Circulation of Films in the Digital Era

Pilot Projects

The Circulation of Films in the Digital Era initiative aims to investigate innovative strategies for the dissemination of European films, so that they can cross national borders and reach wider audiences more easily.

The Pilot Projects scheme aims to ensure that the audiovisual industry adapts to market developments, particularly through the introduction and utilisation of information and communication technologies. Funding is provided for the pilot phase of projects aiming to develop new ways of creating, distributing and promoting European audiovisual content. Company

Project

Portal Entertainment

Immersion Go: A Storytelling

Award (€)

Platform for the Digital Age

188,452 188,452

€188,452 Total Pilot Projects funding invested in UK companies in 2012

In 2012 €2 million was allocated to three European projects that will test the potential benefits of the simultaneous cross-border releases of European films on a range of platforms such as cinema screenings, video-ondemand, DVDs, festivals or television channels. €695,500 was awarded to the EDAD (European Day-and-Date) project, led by UK distributor Artificial Eye. Company

Project

Co-Beneficiaries

Artificial Eye

EDAD

Gutek Films (PL),

Award (€)

Rezo Films (FR), Match Factory (DE), Golem (SP), Cineart (BENELUX)

695,500 695,500

‘MEDIA has brought great advantages to Artificial Eye over the years, consistently backing us through its distribution schemes and funding Curzon on Demand. Now the EDAD project really shows MEDIA’s lasting value as it supports us in testing ideas for the future. We have been empowered to experiment with new possibilities for distribution, working with partners in Poland, France, Germany and Spain. The Digital Circulation initiative makes room for research and flexibility. As practitioners we rely heavily on funds that support us in trialling new models, so we can draw informed conclusions on how best to forge ahead.’ Louisa Dent, Managing Director, Artificial Eye

MEDIA in the UK 2012 is a MEDIA Desk UK publication. For more information, please contact: MEDIA Desk UK Agnieszka Moody, Alice Goody-Lawrence and Francesca Walker c/o BFI 21 Stephen Street London W1T 1LN 020 7173 3221 england@mediadeskuk.eu

MEDIA Antenna Wales Judy Wasdell c/o Creative Industries, Welsh Government QED Centre, Main Avenue Treforest Estate Pontypridd CF37 5YR 0300 061 5637 wales@mediadeskuk.eu

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MEDIA Antenna Scotland Emma Valentine c/o Creative Scotland 249, West George Street Glasgow G2 4QE 0141 302 1776 scotland@mediadeskuk.eu

Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival received MEDIA Audiovisual Festivals funding in 2012. Photo by Jon Craig