FIDA
The Film Industry Data Repository
Introduction
The Film Industry Data Repository (FIDA) is a lifecycle-wide data infrastructure developed by the CresCine consortium to support evidence-based decision-making in Europe’s film sector, with a particular focus on small and mid-sized markets. FIDA brings together fragmented information from across the film value chain – from production and festival circulation to theatrical exhibition, streaming availability, and television programming – and integrates it into a single, interoperable analytical environment.
Designed for producers, distributors, sales agents, film agencies, and scholars alike, FIDA enables comparative analysis across countries, release windows, and time periods that are rarely visible in commercial analytics services. The repository combines public and open data with licensed industry data, cleaned, harmonised, and linked via a shared internal identifier to allow robust cross-source analysis while respecting licensing constraints.
FIDA integrates data from The Movie Database (TMDB), Wikidata, the World Bank, Lumiere (European Audiovisual Observatory), Cinando, International Showtimes, UsherU, the European Audiovisual Observatory Yearbook, media-press.tv, and curated CresCine festival datasets. Together, these sources cover production metadata, festival selections and awards, admissions and box office, cinema showtimes, streaming availability, television broadcasts, and socio-economic context.
Access to FIDA is provided through analytical dashboards and aggregated datasets, offering a durable evidence base for industry strategy, academic research, and film policy development across Europe. Access to FIDA dashboards and associated dashboards is free to all.
In the case of derivative analytical use, CresCine and FIDA must be credited, and this explanatory paper referenced: https://zenodo.org/records/17829236.
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VOD Distribution of Films Produced in Europe
This dashboard provides an overview how European films circulate in Video-on-Demand (VOD) services. The dashboard uses aggregated data from CresCine’s Film Industry Data Repository (FIDA) to observe when films enter VOD catalogues, how long they are available, and how distribution may differ across streaming services, production countries, and genres. Any user of the data will have to, in any related publication, refer to the paper explaining the database that can be found here: https://zenodo.org/records/17829236
The streaming data specifically was originally provided by UsherU, an Irish film industry data collection and analytics firm. FIDA includes 4 years (2021-2024) of monthly data on the availability of European films on VOD streaming services across the world. Streaming data has been enriched with data from other sources (TMDB, Lumiere Pro, Wikidata).
Explanation on acronyms used in the dashboard: EU Big 5 are Spain, Italy, Germany, France and Poland; EU Small Countries are all the rest of the EU countries; EC Small Countries are the rest of European small countries that are the members of the Council of Europe; Turkey, UK and Ukraine form a separate group as they are the large countries next to the EU; “International” refers to all other countries.
The overall aim of this dashboard is to provide an accessible analytical tool for researchers, policymakers, sales agents and cultural institutions seeking to understand the reach and mobility of European film in VOD services.
