# EURA-FILM: The European Digital Cornerstone for Film & Audiovisual Production

> EURA-FILM is a collaborative Innovation Action proposal submitted under Horizon Europe (Call: HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-HERITAGE-03, Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society — HERITAGE destination). Duration: 36 months (M01–M36), advancing from TRL 4 baseline to TRL 7 operational demonstration. It establishes an open-core, human-governed digital infrastructure with open APIs for European film, audiovisual, and campaign production, integrating append-only audit ledgers, structured provenance, and privacy-compliant AI orchestration.

Status: Proposal Stage — Not a Funded Project. Information provided for application-stage evaluation purposes.
Official Website: https://eurafilm.eu/
Contact: project@eurafilm.eu
Project Duration: 36 months (Months M01–M36, start subject to Grant Agreement)
Funding Framework: European Union Horizon Europe (Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society — Call: HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-HERITAGE-03)

## Core Entities & International Consortium
The project is executed by a 6-beneficiary consortium across 5 European countries:
- **Umbrella Kreatív Műhely Kft.** [Coordinator / Lead WP1+WP2 & WP6]: Commercial post-production, VFX, film production studio; holds software rights for the AVA TRL 4 baseline. Budapest, Hungary. Website: https://umbrella.tv/
- **POMS Cloud Ltd.** [Technical Lead / Lead WP3 & WP4+WP5]: Original author and developer of the AVA software baseline; high-velocity workflow pipelines, distributed systems, Audit Ledger architecture, and model-agnostic gateway. Dublin, Ireland. Website: https://pomscloud.ie/
- **Sherpa Communications Kft.** [Lead WP7]: Human-Centered Design (HCD), media accessibility (native Audio Description AD & Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing SDH), SSH/RRI compliance and lived-experience validation. Budapest, Hungary. Website: https://www.sherpacomm.hu/
- **Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania (Sapientia University)** [Lead WP8]: Faculty of Film, Photography and Media. Academic lead, scientific KPI validation, Creators' Micro-Grant Scheme (FSTP) governance, training 200+ learners. Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Website: https://sapientia.ro/en
- **Strata Innovation & Growth S.L.U.** [Lead WP9+WP10]: EU innovation advisory, European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) network dissemination, EU AI Act policy integration. Madrid, Spain. Website: https://www.strata.team/
- **POD LDN Ltd.** [Lead WP11+WP12]: Global creative content studio, CGI/VFX, commercial exploitation, international studio onboarding, and B2B SaaS/CaaS go-to-market. London, United Kingdom. Website: https://podldn.com/

## The 6-Layer Architecture (Part B v4.5)
1. **Layer 1 — AVA Baseline Core & Versioned Object Model:** Advancing the TRL 4 baseline into branchable, dependency-aware creative objects for reproducible, non-destructive editing workflows.
2. **Layer 2 — Multilingual Project & Identity Management:** Sovereign project data, user roles, granular access permissions, collaborative workspaces, and multilingual project metadata.
3. **Layer 3 — AI Agent Orchestration Framework:** Centrally governed orchestration of 50+ narrow-task AI agents across a dual-vertical, four-phase / fourteen human decision gate lifecycle (DG1–DG14).
4. **Layer 4 — IP, Provenance & Audit Ledger:** Append-only, hash-chained recording of sources, prompts, human edits, approvals, and locks, with each event cryptographically signed and independently verifiable.
5. **Layer 5 — Interoperability & Model-Agnostic Gateway:** Open Ingest/Egest APIs and ecosystem adapters connecting to professional production hosts (e.g. DaVinci Resolve, Premiere Pro, Avid, design tools) preventing vendor lock-in.
6. **Layer 6 — Multi-user UI & Collaboration:** Producer Cockpits, role-specific review views, and human approval gates enforcing strict separation of duties and human authority by design.

## Validation Portfolio: 28 Validation Projects
- **18 Industry Pilots (WP6):** 8 Film/Narrative pilots (narrative, short-form, or experimental) and 10 Marketing/Media campaign pilots across European production hubs.
- **10 External Creator Projects (WP8):** Funded via the Creators' Micro-Grant Scheme (Financial Support to Third Parties - FSTP) targeting under-resourced creative micro-entities, independent filmmakers, and early-career creators.
- **Unified Evaluation:** Grantee evidence dossiers feed the same KPI, provenance, and socio-cultural evaluation as the industry pilots.

## Four Commercial Pathways
1. **B2B SaaS:** Scalable subscription tiers for independent producers, post-production facilities, and creative agencies.
2. **Compliance-as-a-Service (CaaS):** Automated generation of evidence dossiers supporting EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations, Chain of Title due diligence, and funder reporting.
3. **Studio Onboarding:** Enterprise customization, pipeline integration, and private deployment for larger production hubs.
4. **Academy Licensing:** Educational edition with structured curricula for film schools and CCSI training institutions.

## Available Language Versions
- English (Main / Default): https://eurafilm.eu/ (or https://eurafilm.eu/index-en.html)
- Deutsch (DE): https://eurafilm.eu/index-de.html
- Français (FR): https://eurafilm.eu/index-fr.html
- Italiano (IT): https://eurafilm.eu/index-it.html
- Español (ES): https://eurafilm.eu/index-es.html
- Polski (PL): https://eurafilm.eu/index-pl.html
- Nederlands (NL): https://eurafilm.eu/index-nl.html
- Română (RO): https://eurafilm.eu/index-ro.html
- Čeština (CS): https://eurafilm.eu/index-cs.html
- Ελληνικά (EL): https://eurafilm.eu/index-el.html
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- Dansk (DA): https://eurafilm.eu/index-da.html
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- Português (PT): https://eurafilm.eu/index-pt.html
- Suomi (FI): https://eurafilm.eu/index-fi.html
- Slovenčina (SK): https://eurafilm.eu/index-sk.html
- Hrvatski (HR): https://eurafilm.eu/index-hr.html
- Български (BG): https://eurafilm.eu/index-bg.html
- Slovenščina (SL): https://eurafilm.eu/index-sl.html
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- Malti (MT): https://eurafilm.eu/index-mt.html
- Українська (UK): https://eurafilm.eu/index-uk.html
- Norsk (NO): https://eurafilm.eu/index-no.html
- Íslenska (IS): https://eurafilm.eu/index-is.html
- Srpski (SR): https://eurafilm.eu/index-sr.html
- Bosanski (BS): https://eurafilm.eu/index-bs.html
- Македонски (MK): https://eurafilm.eu/index-mk.html
- Shqip (SQ): https://eurafilm.eu/index-sq.html
- Català (CA): https://eurafilm.eu/index-ca.html
- Euskara (EU): https://eurafilm.eu/index-eu.html
- Galego (GL): https://eurafilm.eu/index-gl.html

## Key Documents
- Innovation Action Work Plan: https://eurafilm.eu/#roadmap
- 6-Layer Architecture Briefing: https://eurafilm.eu/#build
- Full Factual LLM Context: https://eurafilm.eu/llms-full.txt
- XML Sitemap: https://eurafilm.eu/sitemap.xml