Our members are working hard at the moment to adapt and take relevant actions to bring cinema, culture and entertainment into public's homes, in this global context of COVID-19 restrictive measures. Member platforms are working (remotely) to set up new offers and support partners and rights holders in the audiovisual sector, institutional and educational organisations, as well as their regular audience. Here are a number of the new actions and offers made available by some EuroVoD members' services. We will update regularly these initiatives: FILMDOO Rent a film for free from the whole catalogue: use the code TOGETHERWITHFILM at check out to watch the film for free.
FilmDoo also opened their game-based edutainment platform (online learning through film) for free during this period, where you can find languages, STEM and humanities. Try it here: https://esh.ooo/ Territories available: worldwide
Filmin is taking measures to help other companies, such as AULA Film, with a project to bring cinema to schools and in this case, adapt their service to the needs of children at home. The company is also offering different discounted subscriptions to certain groups related to education and the audiovisual industry.
Territories available: Spain, Portugal, Mexico FILMOTV The platform offers a permanent promotion on a selection of TVOD movies and specific promotions, such as a promo campaign (current titles starting 1,99€). The SVOD service offers a one month free trial. New actions are initiated on social media with videos by journalists with a recommendations, called "Carte postale de...". E-cinema releases will be available as soon as the regulatory context is defined and confirmed for premium movies that couldn't benefit from a full exploitation on theaters. Territories available: France KINO FONDAS The platform is one of the hosts of Vilnius films festival, Kino Pavasaris, which has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival moved online, making it the first online film festival online in Lithuania. Territories available: Lithuania KINO PASAKA IFF Kino Pavasaris's selection will be available on the platform for 3 weeks, as well as other the platforms in the country. Territories available: Lithuania
Kinow used their tech solutions to create a platform in 48h for the Festival International du Film d'Aubagne, which hosts a free access to their selection for a limited time, after the cancellation of this year's edition. Find the selection here.
Territories available: France
The French platform dropped their prices with the 1400 films from their catalogue available to rent at €1.99 in SD and €2.99 in HD, until April 15. The SVOD service that presents 10 topical films each month is available for €2.99/month, with a free 7-day trial period.
Territories available: France LACINETEK.DE All TVOD and EST films available on Lacinetek.de get a 50% discount. Territories available: Germany, Austria MEDICI.TV Stream Massenet’s Manon from the Opéra de Paris for free. In April, for each performance that were on the schedule to be live streamed, a program from the catalog featuring those same artists will be available to everyone for free. Read their full statement here. Territories available: worldwide NOK-ZE-DOC One-month free subscription of the service by entering the code NOKNOKNOK Territories available: French-speaking territories PICKBOX NOW Pickbox NOW unlocked its service for free in the Adriatic region from March 13 and this promotion is active until the current situation remains. Territories available: Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia and North Macedonia. TËNK Tënk has teamed up with a long-time partner festival "Cinéma du réel" in Paris which was meant to take place in March: for two weeks, their 2020 edition is on Tënk with most of the selected films, which are recent, rare and high quality. Each film is online for a week and with a limited number of screenings. They are in discussion with European festivals to build similar partnerships. Territories available: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland TRIART FILM Starting March 20th, every new member is offered a free rental to watch on the site. Territories available: Sweden UNIVERSCINÉ BELGIUM & LUXEMBOURG Cinema@home on universcine.be presents 30 e-cinema releases and it will be duplicated for the Luxemburg market on VOD.lu in agreement with right-holders. Cinemabelgealamaison hosts 1000 Belgian films on TVOD and more than 200 n SVOD through UnCut, organized by Centre du Cinéma and Ministre de la Culture de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles Bénédicte Linard. Starting March 30, vod.lu will host the films selected for LuxFilmFest 2020, which was cancelled this month. Territories available: Belgium, Luxembourg UNIVERSCINÉ FRANCE Promo campaign called Univers Solidaire with 300 films at 0,99€, which was covered the press. The editorial team came up with a dedicated film selection, "Confinement de chefs d'oeuvre", as well as a selection for kids in partnership with Little KMBO at a 50% discount. The platform hosts Fête du Court Métrage with 3 free shorts, as well as the AFCA festival with a pass. Universciné is partnering with SDI (independent distributors) to host a corner for the syndicate's members as an alternative for their work. Territories available: France Other member platforms are working at the moment on taking actions and setting up new offers by working closely with rights holders and institutions, such as Vodclub.online in Austria, Lacinetek.com en France and more actions for KinoFondas in Lithuania.