A group of more than 500 prominent European producers and directors, including Pedro Almodóvar, Agnieszka Holland and Pawel Pawlikowski, has signed an open letter demanding that new rules of engagement with global streamers like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are set into law across all EU territories.
The appeal has been launched by the Paris-based European Producers Club, which represents top independent film and TV drama producers across Europe. It comes as EU member states are rushing to meet the January 2021 deadline by which they must implement Europe’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (Avms) that obligates foreign streaming services to invest a portion of their revenue into local productions, but leaves the modalities of this obligation to each individual country.
“The global health crisis has taught us at least two things: first, that the audience’s demand for visual stories has not diminished, and that the main beneficiaries of this continuing demand are,...
The appeal has been launched by the Paris-based European Producers Club, which represents top independent film and TV drama producers across Europe. It comes as EU member states are rushing to meet the January 2021 deadline by which they must implement Europe’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (Avms) that obligates foreign streaming services to invest a portion of their revenue into local productions, but leaves the modalities of this obligation to each individual country.
“The global health crisis has taught us at least two things: first, that the audience’s demand for visual stories has not diminished, and that the main beneficiaries of this continuing demand are,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety - Film News
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