Planning the Creative Europe Project!
AV-arkki – The Center for Finnish Media Art has received Next Generation EU Funding 2022–2023 to build a project plan and a network for a European programme, where artists and producers of artists’ moving image and media arts develop international collaboration, co-productions and distribution in interaction with the fields of film, visual arts and media.
AV-arkki has named producer Tuuli Penttinen-Lampisuo from Poike Productio to find partners and to coordinate the Creative Europe application.
The need and motivation has risen from learnings and benchmarking in international film forums, which effectively promote and strengthen the film industry, international finance, co-productions, distribution and the film-makers’ skills and networks. Such structures are mostly missing in the fields of artists’ moving image and media arts.
Simultaneously, media arts are infected by the same mega trends as film, such as Brexit, climate change, MeToo, pandemic, and challenges concerning financing in various countries.
Media art organizations are typically small and artist-driven, whereas production companies typically struggle with workload and lack of labor. Both operate on the borderlands of film, visual art and media, needing a wide range of understanding in cross-sectorial practices. The field of media arts and artists’ moving image needs more producers and production companies with different scales and profiles, also those with the will and capacity to grow bigger. DAMI – Developing Artists’ Moving Image Network builds on peer-learning, interest in co-productions, sustainability and new channels and possibilities in distribution. The network is meant to be a safe forum for professionals in artists’ moving image and media arts productions to share questions, knowledge and visions.
DAMI – Developing Artists’ Moving Image Creative Europe Project Plan in a Nutshell:
Over the last six months, DAMI – Developing Artists’ Moving Image network has been actively looking for the right partners and discussing the right actions for a Creative Europe project. The project plan is starting to find its form while there are now 23 days to go until the next call for applications closes. Changes certainly occur, but if you are curious, here you can take a sneak peak at the current project plan:
What: A Creative Europe Culture Strand project aims to foster artistic creation, production and distribution of media arts and artists’ moving image by building up a one-year pilot programme for artist-directors and producers to develop their media art works under process. We’re heading to a small-scale Creative Europe project with the minimum of three European countries involved, and the maximum of 200.000 euros financed with 20% of self-financing.
Where: The pilot programme takes place in Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany, in CPH:DOX Film Festival in Denmark, possibly in DocLisboa, Portugal, as well as on-line.
When: The Creative Europe application deadline is on February 23, and the decisions are made around July 2023. The pilot-programme is planned to run from spring 2024 till spring 2025.
Why: This project plan has risen from producers’ realization that media-arts’ cross-sectorial industry lacks the operational structures, platforms and frameworks characteristic of the film industry. Like in film, also media art producers and directors would benefit from pitching and discussing their works to the decision makers already while in progress.
How: The pilot-programme offers mentoring, workshops, festival residencies, peer-learning and cross-sectorial networking to a selected group of artist-directors and producers.
Who: The project partnership roles are under negotiation with Oberhausen Film Festival from Germany, CPH:DOX from Denmark, AEMI from Ireland, DocLisboa from Portugal, as well as Poike Productio, Kenno Filmi and AV-arkki from Finland.
The project still welcomes associate partners who are interested in joining the network, especially from the European countries that are not yet represented among the partners. The associate partners can be for example production companies, festivals, galleries and artist organizations who are working or willing to work with media arts and artists’ moving image.
How to join DAMI?
Send an e-mail tuuli (at) poike.fi, if you want to discuss the project or join the newsletter mailing list! DAMI Newsletter – Open in browser »
Meet us at DocPoint Film Festival, Helsinki:
Tuuli Penttinen-Lampisuo, Producer, Poike Productio, +358 50 535 8916, tuuli (at) poike.fi
Hanna Maria Anttila, Director, AV-arkki, +358 40 557 0320, director (at) av-arkki.fi
Tytti Rantanen, Programme Coordinator, AV-arkki, +358 44 744 2060, programme (at) av-arkki.fi
Read more about AV-arkki and the Next Generation EU Funding in Finnish.
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The Sustainable Growth Programme for Finland supports growth that is ecologically, socially and economically sustainable in line with the aims of the Government Programme. Funding for Finland’s recovery and resilience plan comes from the one-off EU recovery package ‘Next Generation EU’ (NGEU). The NGEU is divided into seven instruments, of which the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is the largest.
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