The Eurimages’ Audentia Award was created to encourage women in filmmaking in their ongoing careers by giving them extra financial support for their upcoming films based on the quality of the film screened at the selected festival.

In order to improve the impact of this award, a decision was taken to issue a call for proposals to select festivals capable of hosting the award on an ad hoc basis and of ensuring its conformity with the Fund's overall gender equality strategy as set forth by the Board of Management.

Click HERE to see the terms of the call for proposals to select the festivals that will present the Audentia award as of 1 January 2024 for a maximum period of three years (2024-2026).

Eurimages receives regular requests, which take various forms, for the financial support of projects, initiatives and events aimed at promoting gender equality and international co-operation within the film industry in exchange for high visibility for the Fund in the activity. Sponsored activities have included events, promotional activities and training programmes with a focus on female filmmakers. As part of its Gender Equality Action Plan 2021-2023, Eurimages has funded six projects: Pop Up Film Residency, Europe ! Voices of Women in Film at Sidney Film Festival (EFP), The Purple Meridians, Berlin Nipkow Residency for Female Empowerment in the Film Industry, Sisterhood of Young Animation Auteurs, and Step In at Locarno Film Festival. The aim of this action was to encourage female filmmakers in their ongoing careers.

Click HERE to see the details of the call for sponsorships to select initiatives from the film and audiovisual industry that will benefit a financial support from Eurimages to promote the values of gender equality within the Fund

Following the call for proposals launched in May 2020, seven co-production markets were selected to present the Eurimages Co-production Development Award, which aims to promote international co-production from the very beginning of a project as of 1 January 2021 for a maximum period of three years.

Click HERE to consult the terms and conditions of the call for proposals to select the co-production markets that will present the Eurimages Co-production Development Award as of 1 January 2024 for a maximum period of three years (2024-2026).

Following the suspension of the former Lab Projects Awards on 1 January 2021 and the study carried out by Tatino Films (FR) on the relevance and design of a new similar programme, the Eurimages Board of Directors adopted in December 2022 the creation of two Eurimages New Lab Awards: the Innovation Award for experimental projects in development and the Outreach Award to promote public awareness of experimental projects at the end of production or in post-production.

Click HERE to consult the terms and conditions of the call for proposals to select the two initiatives that will present these two new awards as of 1 January 2024 and for a maximum period of three years (2024-2026).

In addition to activities aimed at promoting international co-productions such as the awards mentioned above, the promotion programme also intends to promote the Eurimages Fund through partnerships with initiatives that share its objectives and contribute to its visibility. Following the call for proposals launched in 2020, nine proposals for partnerships with events aimed at promoting international cooperation within the film and audiovisual industry in exchange for a high visibility of the Eurimages Fund within this event have been concluded for the period 2021-2023.

Click HERE to consult the terms and conditions of the call for sponsorship proposals aimed at selecting the film and audiovisual industry initiatives that will benefit from Eurimages' financial support in order to promote both international cooperation and the activities of the Eurimages Fund as of 1 January 2024 and for a maximum period of three years (2024-2026).

As part of its Sustainability Strategy, Eurimages Board of Management decided to create three Eurimages Green Co-production Awards. The objective of these awards is to reward international co-productions that have managed to combine sustainable production and artistic quality. They will be open to feature-length fiction, animation and documentary films. Each prize will be endowed with €10,000. The present call for proposals aims at selecting the three film festivals, markets or events which will host these awards for the years 2024 and 2025 and potentially prolonged to 2026.

Click HERE to see the details of this call for proposals.