From Co-productions to ‘Co-distributions’? Re-evaluating Distribution Policies for European Film
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 253093
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- C - Chapter in book
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10.1007/978-3-319-97157-5_5
- Book title
- European Film and Television Co-production
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- Springer International Publishing
- ISBN
- 9783319971568
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
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0
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E - Media
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- Additional information
- This chapter is part of a key landmark volume on European Cinema Co-Production. It presents original work on film distribution for co-productions, drawing from European MEDIA programme data, and explores the under-researched relationship between European film production and distribution, examining a range of European policies designed to support film distribution, including digital and video-on-demand (VOD)/Over-the-Top (OTT) distribution. The article offers an analysis of MEDIA programme support for distribution, presenting original data across participating countries, and highlights differential forms of subsidies for pan-European film distribution. It concludes with an analysis of two recent European initiatives to support cross-border digital distribution: Walk This Way (WtW) and The TIDE Experiment, and considers how alternative forms of distribution across national boundaries (‘co-distributions’) could reach wider audiences through a combination of traditional and digital distribution platforms. The author is a member of the European Co-Production Research Network, and the work from this volume has directly fed into work done by the European Audiovisual Observatory/Council of Europe (and the book includes contributions from these policymakers). Connected to this research, the author was appointed as UK Expert on film funding by the European Commission to produce a 2019 report for a pan European project on film funding (see https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/how-do-european-film-funds-award-money-new-report-film-and-audiovisual-funding-criteria-eu). Work from this chapter was presented as a 2015 keynote for a HERA funded research project, Mediating Cultural Encounters through European Screens (MeCETES) as well as, among others, the Media Industries Conference at King‘s College, London (2018) and an invited plenary at the 2017 Edinburgh International Film Audiences Conference. In addition, this chapter draws on the author's research on his 2015-17 AHRC, Nesta and ACE funded project (£125k) with Film London on digital film distribution: We Are Colony: Digital VOD Distribution for Independent Film.
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