Organization for the Collective
Management and Rights’ Protection
of Motion Pictures Producers
Open Call for Participation
4th Mediterranean Documentary Film Festival “Mediterranean Dialogues”
The Mediterranean Documentary Film Festival “Mediterranean Dialogues”, held every September in Karlovasi, in the island of Samos, and organized by ERMIAS in collaboration with the Municipality of West Samos and the School of Sciences of the University of the Aegean, enters its 4th year with renewed momentum and opens its doors once again.
The Call for entries is now closed.
Thank you to everyone who submitted their films.
We’ll announce the official selections soon.
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Welcome to Ermias
ERMIAS – the Organization for the Collective Management and Rights’ Protection of Motion Pictures Producers – was founded in 1995 and was approved by the Greek Minister of Cultur in1997 and thus is lawfully functioning for 15 years. It is the only cooperative representing Motion Pictures producers and thus its existence is necessary for the Greek Cinema.
The competent agency of the Culture Ministry for the introduction for approval, supervision and arbitration of the kindred and intellectual rights cooperatives is the Intellectual Property Organization. (I.P.O.)
The competency of ERMIAS is collecting from importers of cassettes and DVDs a percentage from their net revenues distributing them to their members on the basis of article 18 of Law 2121/93. Of course, the constitutional goals of ERMIAS also include the support of cultural activities, something that ERMIAS has realized in the past on many occasions :
a) The “Mediterranean Documentary” Festival,
b) The “Opening Nights” Festival of the magazine “Cinema”, and
c) The “European Cinema” Festival of Eleftherotypia newspaper).
Ermias has an agreement of cooperation with the Spanish organization EGEDA (click here to visit their website), which represents more than 1500 producers.
Worth knowing: OPI ACTIONS
1. On the website https://enjoylegal.gr/, OPI has gathered all legal content distribution platforms into a single online portal. Users can browse through aggregated websites where they can legally enjoy their favorite movies, series, and television productions, listen to music, download or play video games, and gain lawful access to images and books. ‘Enjoy legal’ is part of the European AGORATEKA, an initiative by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Agorateka is a European network portal that hosts websites similar to ‘enjoy legal’ from European Union member states.
2. Respect for intellectual property and related rights begins with education. OPI has created the website https://copyrightschool.gr/ as part of the ‘Greek Copyright School’ program, which includes a series of actions aimed at informing and raising awareness among teachers, students, and young people in general about the importance of protecting intellectual property.