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This chapter constitutes an interview with the executive director of the Council of Europe’s film funding arm, Eurimages, Roberto Olla. Olla holds a PhD in European Law from the European University Institute, Florence, and has previously worked within the MEDIA programme of the European Union. In this interview he outlines the objectives and operation of Eurimages, the impact of co-production on content and also addresses some of the challenges facing European co-productions today.
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At that time it was the European Community, which was the precursor to the European Union, and had a much smaller membership than the current European Union.
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Roberto Olla’s keynote ‘The Future of Co-producing in Europe’ was at the European Co-production Symposium in Copenhagen, 23–24 November 2016. https://www.facebook.com/coproresearchnetwork/.
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In October 2018, the European Parliament voted to update the rules on audiovisual media services to ensure 30% European content in video-on-demand. The approval of the Council of EU Ministers is required before the revised law can enter into force.
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Hammett-Jamart, J. (2018). ‘Official Co-production in the EU: The Role of Eurimages’—an interview with Roberto Olla. In: Hammett-Jamart, J., Mitric, P., Novrup Redvall, E. (eds) European Film and Television Co-production. Palgrave European Film and Media Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97157-5_14
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