European Film Academy e.V.
Budget
€2,168,436
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
8
5.5 FTE
EU Grants
€136,999
Mission & Goals
The creation of the European Film Academy was the initiative of a group of Europe’s finest filmmakers brought together on the occasion of the first European Film Awards Ceremony held in November 1988. The organisation was finally founded in 1989 as the European Cinema Society by its first president Ingmar Bergman and 40 filmmakers to advance the interests of the European film industry. Wim Wenders was elected as first chairman. Two years later the organisation was renamed European Film Academy. Since 1 May 2024, Juliette Binoche is the new President of the European Film Academy, current Chair is Irish producer Mike Downey. The organisation seeks to support and connect its more than 5,000 members and celebrates and promotes their work. Its aims are to share knowledge and to educate audiences of all ages about European cinema. Positioning itself as a leading organization and facilitating crucial debates within the industry, the Academy strives to unite everyone who loves European cinema.
EU Legislative Interests
CREATIVE EUROPE 2021-2027 Push Boundaries
Communication Activities
The Month of European Film and the European Film Awards are a Europe-wide and international promotional platform annually highlighting 80 to 90 European film productions (feature, documentary, animation, short films) as well as the film professionals involved in their creation, production and distrubition, with the aim to make the films travel, connect European filmmakers across borders to ease pan-European networking, and to build an international audience, thus improving access to markets, especially outside a film's country of origin. To achieve its objectives the Activity is addressed to: a) the European film industry b) international media c) an international film-loving audience The European Film Awards include around 100 European films (feature, documentary, animation and short films) from 30 - 40 European countries (EU and non-EU) which are selected and/or nominated every year, about 50% of these from Creative Europe countries with a lower production capacity thus benefiting from international exposure. The promotion of European cinema is culminating annually in the “European Award Season” (formerly: Month of European Film) and the European Film Awards. The awards ceremony alternates between Berlin, seat of the European Film Academy, and a different European city and is broadcast internationally and streamed online world-wide. The programme European Film Club co-created by young people is a film platform and film club network across Europe for young people to come together to watch and discuss European films and share their own. The European Film Club has a connection to the European Young Audience Award, an official category of the European Film Awards. The Young Audience Award annualy presents three nominated films to an audience across Europe of 12-14-year-old film-lovers who then elect the award recipient. Founding member and strategic partner of the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk (ICFR): initiated and established by the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, International Film Festival Rotterdam and the European Film Academy, the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk’s mission is to advocate for and to act in solidarity with filmmakers at risk.
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
https://www.icfr.international The Film Academy Network of Europe
Organisation Members
The membership of the European Film Academy consists of film professionals from all film professional fields. https://www.europeanfilmacademy.org/about/story/
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.