Online services

CiDiNet is an online database which aims to improve exchanges of information, ideas and costs among European distributors, notably before the release of a film.

CiDiNet is an initiative of Europa Distribution, a European association of more than 100 leading independent distributors from 26 different European countries, whose overriding objective is to improve the circulation of European films and the competitiveness of European distribution by reinforcing information exchange, distributor co-operation and cost mutualisation. Europa Distribution also organises workshops for distributors.

Both activities have four objectives:

To improve distributors’ promotional strategies well before the release of a film
To share the costs of promotional and technical equipment
To promote more concrete collaboration among distributors
To encourage distributor participants to purchase the analysed films.

Cinando.com is a database dedicated to film industry professionals. It includes information about its members (producers, financiers, sales agents, buyers, institutions and festivals) and films for sale at the main markets around the world, as well as database entries for feature films (for theatrical release) and film projects. Access to the database is reserved exclusively for professionals.

Cinando.com has nine million page views per year, 32,000 participants and features 9,000 companies and more than 10,000 films and projects. Among the recently added features is the Screening Room, where rights owners can upload their films and organise private online screenings for buyers or festival programmers free of charge. Another new addition, Festivals in Focus, is a way to catch up on the official selections from the major festivals.

Cineuropa is a website dedicated to the European audiovisual industry. It is updated daily and is available in English, French, Italian and Spanish.

Even though Cineuropa’s main targets are audiovisual professionals, the website is also a source of information for European and non-European movie-goers. The portal encompasses two sectors: magazine and services.

The magazine provides information on European cinema (films releases etc), news from the European audiovisual industry, and news about films currently shooting and films in production. This sector also includes interviews, information about festivals, dossiers, previews, photo galleries and a “Focus on” section presenting European films with major commercial outlets. The network of journalists is well established throughout Europe for optimal coverage.

The services sector gathers information about the possibilities for finding funds, a film database and an industry database (providing information on production and distribution companies).

Film New Europe (FNE) provides audiovisual professionals from Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey with an information tool to support their access to European and international markets and to facilitate international co-production and co-operation.

FNE Daily, a 'paperless newspaper', provides daily news about the audiovisual sector, including weekly box office figures, grants, production and links to regional organisations. FNE Daily has over 12,000 audiovisual professionals as subscribers worldwide. They include nearly 5,000 producers, 2,000 film journalists and over 1,200 buyers and festival programmers.

OLLFI is a film finance web platform for audiovisual professionals that offers freely-accessible services as well as specific applications for purchase.

The database contains detailed information on the financing and production of audiovisual works and offers IT tools for the simulation of financing strategies for specific film projects. These IT tools (accounting and comparison of financial support, simulation of financing plans, budget) will be based on a large database of the eligibility rules, legal frameworks and the practicalities of nearly 800 funding opportunities for film production, stemming from around 200 funding programmes implemented in the different EU Member States.

The website also includes information on some 50 European funding opportunities for the production of long feature audiovisual works.

Pro2film is a comprehensive online source of information about films and film professionals. Pro2film provides a search engine and an index to various large databases for film professionals. This makes it possible to retrieve all the information about one specific film and avoids the need to search a multitude of websites.

Pro2film provides a single point of entry for databases for films in development, for film markets and for archives. The data is not user-generated, but comes from industry databases. As soon as a film professional has found the film and data of interest, the search is switched to the database specialising in this particular request. As a result, it is possible to follow the life cycle of a film through all its stages, from script to archive.

Reelisor is an online co-operation platform for the European documentary community. The objective is to provide networking opportunities and information both to filmmakers and to buyers, festivals, training initiatives and funding institutions.

The platform allows documentary professionals from Europe and all over the world to register with their personal profile, present their projects, contact each other, find current news of the industry and improve their knowledge.

The platform also features an industry calendar, a job exchange section, a download section and exclusive content from conferences and similar events. Access is free and the platform serves as a navigator for existing websites and platforms.