COVID-19: Creative & cultural sectors (CCS)
06/10: InvestEU - 26 organisations call for support for the cultural and creative sectors (CCS) – UNIC website
26 organisations from across Europe's cultural and creative sectors, including UNIC, have written to European Commissioners Thierry Breton (Internal Market) and Paolo Gentiloni (Economy) to urge the EU to ensure that the CCS will benefit from an appropriate level of support via InvestEU.
COVID – 19 : EU response
12/10: Coronavirus Dashboard: EU Cohesion Policy response to the coronavirus crisis – European Commission
The Commission announces the first provisional results of the implementation of the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative (CRII) and Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative Plus (CRII+).
09/10: COVID-19: Council agrees its position on the Recovery and Resilience Facility – Council of the EU
With a financial envelope of €672.5 billion, the facility will support public investments and reforms and contribute to economic, social and territorial cohesion within the EU. It will help member states address the economic and social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic whilst ensuring that their economies undertake the green and digital transitions, becoming more sustainable and resilient.
13/10: State aid: Commission prolongs and expands Temporary Framework to further support companies facing significant turnover losses – European Commission
The European Commission has decided to prolong and extend the scope of the State aid Temporary Framework adopted on 19 March 2020 to support the economy in the context of the coronavirus outbreak. All sections of the Temporary Framework are prolonged for six months until 30 June 2021, and the section to enable recapitalisation support is prolonged for three months until 30 September 2021.
07/10: European Commission to issue EU SURE bonds of up to €100 billion as social bonds – European Commission
The European Commission announced that it will issue its forthcoming EU SURE bonds of up to €100 billion as social bonds. To that end, the Commission has adopted an independently evaluated Social Bond Framework. This Framework is meant to provide investors in these bonds with confidence that the funds mobilised will serve a truly social objective.
EU Digital Services Act (DSA)
15/10: Parliament to outline its priorities for the future Digital Services Act – European Parliament
With the upcoming Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Union aims to shape the digital economy not only at EU level but also to be a standard-setter for the rest of the world, as it did with data protection. In two separate “legislative initiative” reports, the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and the Legal Affairs committees call on the Commission to address and tackle current shortcomings in the online environment in its DSA package, due to be presented by the end of the year.
16/10: Why does the EU want to regulate the platform economy? – European Parliament
The platform economy brings benefits but also risks. Read about the issues the EU wants to solve with new rules and the solutions proposed by MEPs.
07/10: IMCO Report: Improving the functioning of the Single Market – European Parliament
Amendments available here.
05/10: JURI Report: Adapting commercial and civil law rules for commercial entities operating online – European Parliament
Amendments available here.
Events :
19-23 October: European Parliament Plenary, Brussels – vote on DSA reports in IMCO, LIBE and JURI
19 October: 18th EFARN (European Film Agency Research Network) meeting
19 October: FAPAV/MIA webinar “After the lockdown, restarting legality together” 15.00
20 October – Negotiations/Trilogue on the future Creative Europe Programme
20-22 October: EUIPO Observatory Working Group meetings
26-27 October: European Parliament CULT Committee meeting
26-27 October: European Parliament IMCO Committee meeting
28 October: European Internet Forum event on geo-blocking
2 December: European Commission legislative proposal for the Digital Services Act (DSA) – TBC
Recent studies :
EP JURI - The impact of algorithms for online content filtering or moderation : "Upload filters" - September 2020
EAO - The European audiovisual industry in the time of COVID-19 - September 2020
TALLINN: The Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, running 13 – 29 November 2020, will introduce the DDA Spotlight Award, honouring diversity and inclusion in film.
WARSAW: The 6th edition of Poland’s CANAL+ SERIES LAB is accepting applications for its international programme through 10 November 2020.
WARSAW: FNE is tracking the Oscar candidates as they are announced across the region.
TRIESTE: When East Meets West has opened the call for its coproduction forum and all side events, set to take place 24 – 28 January 2021, with a 30 November 2020 deadline for applications.
STRASBOURG: Slovakia, Croatia, and Poland each received multiple Eurimages grants in the October 2020 round of funding. The grants ranged in size from 43,700 EUR to 370,000 EUR.
BRNO: The Russian film Sockeye Salmon. Red Fish by Vladislav Grishin and Dmitriy Shpilenok was the winner of the 46th EKOFILM International Film Festival, which concluded its first part on 17 October 2020. The Festival President’s Award went to the film Unrestrained Virgin Forest by Zdeněk Zvonek. Two more days of cinema screening of all 25 films will take place 27 and 28 November.
TBILISI: The inaugural Annecy-Tbilisi animation film pitching workshop handed out awards to two projects: Zako by Susana Khachatryan and The Living Book by Mindia Arabuli.
BUDAPEST: The third edition of the Hungarian children’s film festival Cinemira is set to unspool on 24 and 25 October 2020, after postponing its original April dates due to the COVID-19 crisis.
The Animation Film Pitching Workshop Annecy-Tbilisi names the Winning Projects
Press releases 18-10-2020The Georgian National Film Center, Institut Français de Géorgie, Georgian Animators Association”Saqanima”, Filmcenter “Georgian Film-Abkhazeti”, „ReAnimania“ International Animation Film and Comics Art Festival of Yerevan, Festival International du film d’animation d’Annecy MIFA and film studio Kvali XXI organised, from 28 September 2020 to 2 October, for the VI time, the animation film project pitching workshop Annecy-Tbilisi.
