CREATIVE EUROPE in the UK 2014 - 2015 Support for the UK’S Audiovisual Sector
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CREATIVE EUROPE IN THE UK 2014 - 2015 Support for the UK’s audiovisual sector www.creativeeuropeuk.eu @CEDUK_MEDIA #creativeeurope Front cover image: The winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes Festival 2016, I, Daniel Blake, directed by Ken Loach, is one of the projects funded through the Slate Development scheme. Image courtesy of Sixteen Films. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Creative Europe’s MEDIA sub-programme 6 PRODUCING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET Development 10 TV Programming 14 Video Games 18 EXPORTING UK FILMS AND IMPORTING EUROPE’S BEST Selective Distribution 22 Automatic Distribution 24 Sales Agents 26 Investment in UK Films 28 Online Distribution 30 HONING SKILLS AND BUILDING NETWORKS Training 34 Markets and Industry Events 36 ATTRACTING AUDIENCES Festivals 40 Cinema Networks 42 Film Literacy and Audience Development 44 CREATIVE EUROPE DESK UK What we do and how we help 48 Get in touch 50 INTRODUCTION Creative Europe launched in 2014 with a budget of €1.46 billion to support the cultural, creative and audiovisual sectors across Europe until 2020. With a 9% budget increase, this European Union programme builds on the legacy of the previous Culture and MEDIA programmes, which ran from 2007 to 2013. During its first two years (2014 to 2015), Creative Europe From 2016, Creative Europe’s cross-sector strand will offer has supported 230 UK cultural and creative organisations and a €121 million Cultural and Creative Sector Guarantee Fund, audiovisual companies as well as the cinema distribution of 84 which is expected to improve access to finance for cultural and UK films in other European countries with grants totalling creative SMEs and unlock €600 million in affordable loans from €40 million. the private sector. Creative Europe offers support to European projects with In this publication we outline how the UK has benefitted from the potential to travel, reach new audiences and encourage the first two years of Creative Europe’s funding and opportunities, skill-sharing and development. The programme is strengthened and we spotlight some of the many successful projects involving by the coming together of the cultural, creative and audiovisual UK-based organisations and companies. sectors and the addition of a new guarantee fund. Its new priorities, such as audience development and digital innovation, Thanks to our team members and the support from our have made it fit for the converging, globalised world. partners, Creative Europe Desk UK has been able to promote Creative Europe in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Creative Europe’s MEDIA sub-programme supports film, Ireland better than even before. As a result, each nation has television, new media and video games. It offers funding, benefitted from funding from Creative Europe’s MEDIA and training and networking opportunities for producers, video Culture sub-programmes. game developers, distributors, sales agents, audiovisual training providers, organisers of festivals, markets and networks, film Over the coming years, we aim to encourage a more diverse range education specialists and cinema exhibitors. of applicant organisations from across the UK, whilst continuing to work closely with the beneficiaries of the programme. Meanwhile, Creative Europe’s Culture sub-programme supports the cultural and creative sectors, and funds collaborative Agnieszka Moody, Director, Creative Europe Desk UK projects and initiatives across all art forms, such as visual arts, dance, theatre, literature, performance, music, heritage, architecture, design, circus, festivals, craft and fashion. There is also support for publishers to translate European fiction. 4 COOPERATION PROJECTS €9.9m CULTURE €11.3m 84 UK FILMS €40m RELEASED of funding received IN EUROPE €12.5m by the UK EUROPEAN TRAINING & PLATFORMS €1.3m NETWORKS MEDIA AUDIENCES LITERARY €2.3m €28.5m €1.1m TRANSLATION €165,000 DISTRIBUTION €4.2m PRODUCERS €8.4m UK230 organisations supported Image: © Linda Nylind 5 84 UK FILMS CREATIVE EUROPE’S MEDIA RELEASED SUB-PROGRAMME IN EUROPE €12.5m Creative Europe’s MEDIA sub-programme responds to the needs FILM FESTIVALS of Europe’s audiovisual sector by supporting a wide range of €140,000 players in the audiovisual industry across the entire value chain. TRAINING Europe produces around 1,600 films a year and yet only around €1.5m EUROPA 30% of the screen space is filled with European audiovisual TRAINING & CINEMAS NETWORKS AUDIENCES content. The programme’s objectives are to enhance and protect ACCESS TO MEDIA €490,000 MARKETS €2.3m €1.1m cultural diversity and to improve the sector’s competitiveness by €780,000 €28.5m AUDIENCE creating opportunities for working internationally. DEVELOPMENT €440,000 UK RESULTS 2014 AND 2015 DISTRIBUTION €4.2m The UK’s creative industries are thriving and are estimated to be worth £9.6 million PRODUCERS ONLINE an hour to the UK’s economy.* Creative Europe can help to further strengthen these €8.4m DISTRIBUTION industries and enable them to fully realise their international potential by producing €1.8m content for international markets and by increasing audience choice. DEVELOPMENT SLATE €2m THEATRICAL SELECTIVE During the first two years of Creative Europe, €28.5 million was invested in the UK’s FUNDING DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION €1.5m audiovisual sector: FILM & TV €2.4m €1.2m €7.8m - 82 UK companies and 53 UK cinemas in VIDEO GAMES the Europa Cinemas network benefitted €625,000 from grants totalling €16 million. SINGLE - 84 British films had their distribution PROJECT €470,000 supported in other European countries TV PROGRAMMING SALES AUTOMATIC with €12.5 million of investment. €5.9m AGENTS DISTRIBUTION €440,000 €700,000 * Source: www.gov.uk/government/news/creative-industries-worth-almost-10-million-an-hour-to-economy 6 84 UK FILMS RELEASED IN EUROPE €12.5m FILM FESTIVALS €140,000 TRAINING €1.5m EUROPA TRAINING & CINEMAS ACCESS TO NETWORKS MEDIA AUDIENCES €490,000 MARKETS €2.3m €1.1m €780,000 €28.5m AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT €440,000 DISTRIBUTION €4.2m PRODUCERS ONLINE €8.4m DISTRIBUTION €1.8m DEVELOPMENT SLATE €2m THEATRICAL SELECTIVE FUNDING DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION €1.5m FILM & TV €2.4m €1.2m €7.8m VIDEO GAMES €625,000 SINGLE PROJECT €470,000 TV PROGRAMMING SALES AUTOMATIC €5.9m AGENTS DISTRIBUTION €440,000 €700,000 7 PRODUCING FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET Over half of the direct income awarded to the UK went to film and TV producers or video game developers through four different funding opportunities: • Development Single Project • Development Slate Funding • TV Programming • Video Games Animated film Jasia was supported through the Single Project Development scheme. Image courtesy of ArthurCox. DEVELOPMENT €2 MILLION AWARDED TO UK PRODUCERS TO HELP THEM FIND FINANCE FOR THEIR PROJECTS During the first two years of Creative Europe, 16 UK production companies secured nearly €2 million of funding for the development of their film, TV and digital platform projects. Nine companies received Slate Funding, sharing a total of €1,497,914. This included Baby Cow Films, Belfast-based animators Sixteen South and documentary producers Spring Films. Animation projects dominated the Single Project selections, receiving 89% of the €470,000 awarded to the UK through this scheme. The south-west of England proved to be a hub of animation activity, with selected projects coming from Aardman Animations, King Rollo Films and Arthur Cox, all of whom are based in the region. 2014 YEAR COMPANY UK NATION PROJECT TITLE (PROJECT TYPE) AMOUNT € Single Project 1973 Films England Hettie Makebelieve (Animation) 60,000 Single Project Aardman Animations England Village Idiot (Animation) 60,000 Single Project Blue Zoo Productions England Planets: The Greatest Show in the Universe (Animation) 60,000 Slate Funding Film & Music Entertainment England Fiction Slate 185,017 Slate Funding Matador Pictures England Fiction Slate 183,278 Single Project Optimism Film England Step Thirteen (Fiction) 50,000 Single Project Red Star 3D Productions England The Good, the Bad and a Horse (Animation) 60,000 Slate Funding Spring Films England Documentary Slate 76,000 Single Project The Illuminated Film Company England Story Story (Animation) 60,000 794,295 €2m of development funding awarded to UK producers 10 2015 YEAR COMPANY UK NATION PROJECT TITLE (PROJECT TYPE) AMOUNT € Single Project ArthurCox England Jasia (Animation) 60,000 Slate Funding Baby Cow Films England Fiction Slate 200,000 Slate Funding Ecosse Films England Fiction Slate 147,500 Single Project King Rollo Films England Gnora & Nibs (Animation) 60,000 Slate Funding Number 9 Films England Fiction Slate 180,000 Slate Funding Sixteen Films England Fiction Slate 172,828 Slate Funding Sixteen South Northern Ireland Animation Slate 173,291 Slate Funding The Illuminated Film Company England Animation Slate 180,000 1,173,619 2014 and 2015 also saw the releases of several critically acclaimed and award-winning films that had received development funding through the previous MEDIA Programme (2007 to 2013) including Jimmy’s Hall, Half of a Yellow Sun, Mr. Turner, Brooklyn, Carol and High-Rise. Courtesy of Lionsgate. Courtesy of StudioCanal. Courtesy of StudioCanal. 11 DEVELOPMENT: CASE STUDIES 1973 Films – Hettie Makebelieve 1973 Films is a UK-based production company founded by multiple Emmy and BAFTA-honoured producer Tim Goodchild and director Louise Scott. Their stop-motion animated series Hettie Makebelieve is about a collection of toys who come to life and create amazing new worlds of adventure. Aimed at 3 to 5 year-olds, the series is planned to be produced in the UK by award-winning stop-motion animation studio and model makers Mackinnon and Saunders, whose work has contributed to Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie, as well as TV series such as Twirlywoos, Bob the Builder, Postman Pat and The Clangers, and many more. After securing a Single Project development grant in 2014, 1973 Films went on to submit a successful TV Programming application the following year. “Creative Europe Desk UK gave us prompt and Hettie Makebelieve.