The European Producers Membership (EPC) has launched a marketing campaign calling for higher recognition and inclusion of unbiased producers at movie festivals and by academies.
The influential EPC states that unbiased producers play an “indispensable position” within the creation, financing, and supply of movies offered at worldwide festivals, however that lots of its members don’t obtain the suitable recognition. The EPC represents 200 main unbiased movie and TV producers from throughout Europe.
As a part of the marketing campaign, the EPC has outlined a collection of suggestions to boost the visibility, hospitality and recognition of producers at movie festivals worldwide.
This contains mentioning lead producers in official competition supplies, alongside administrators, writers and important solid members.
It additionally desires festivals to increase official invites to key producers, quite than counting on intermediaries resembling distributors, and to supply help for lodging and journey for formally chosen movies.
Unbiased producers also needs to obtain stronger recognition in ceremonies and be invited on stage with the crew to recognise their contribution, says the EPC. When introducing movies, festivals also needs to guarantee producers’ names are talked about.
The organisation additionally calls on festivals to ask skilled producers to serve on juries, recognising them as “inventive professionals and decision-makers with a deep understanding of cinema.”
It argues “in an business marked by the rising focus of finance and decision-making energy, championing the position of the unique, or lead, producer is about safeguarding our ecosystem range, fuelling its innovation, and guaranteeing its cultural relevance for the long run”.
The EPC has began approaching festivals and academies with its suggestions, together with Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto and the European Movie Academy, asking what recognition they already present to producers, what extra will be carried out and what obstacles stay. It is going to then monitor progress.
“Movie festivals and academies are important platforms for European movies,” mentioned Julie-Jeanne Regnault, managing director of EPC. “Over the previous years, the EPC has gathered suggestions from its members on easy methods to higher spotlight the important position of producers. This has led to a set of suggestions aimed toward guaranteeing higher visibility in communications, invites, and correct acknowledgment.
“With this toolbox, we provide a compass for participating with festivals, figuring out finest practices, and driving significant enhancements in order that unbiased producers are actually recognised because the inventive leaders they’re. From our perspective, that is essential to advertise the range, innovation, and cultural richness that outline cinema.”
