MEDIA: COMMISSION OUTLINES MEDIA PROGRAMMES POST 2006.

• Position: Media Elimination and Design Intelligent Aid - Brief Article

MEDIA programme.

As in the past, MEDIA will not finance audiovisual production but the upstream and downstream production phases:

- pre-production of films: this phase includes training actions on the acquisition and improvement of skills in the audiovisual sector (including script-writing techniques and the economic, financial and commercial management of film production);

- development: support for the development phase of production from independent SMEs, international promotion and marketing strategies, elaborating sound financial plans, etc.;

- post-production: trans-national distribution support; the aim remains to improve the circulation of non-national films, export and distribution incentives and support for cinema exhibition;

- and promotion: circulation of European cinematographic works and television programmes within the framework of professional markets within Europe and world-wide.

Aid will also be...