The European Film Gateway (ECF) is a new 3-years project (started on 1st September 2008) and involving 20 partners from 14 European countries. The aim is to develop an online portal, providing direct access to about 790.000 digital objects including films, photos, posters, drawings, sound material and text documents. EFG is a Best Practice Network funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus programme, as part of the i2010 policy. The project is initiated by ACE (Association des Cinémathèques Européennes) and the EDL Foundation. The content will be provided mostly by film archives and cinémathèques, which are partners in the project.

The European Film Gateway will be linked to the Europeana portal - the European digital library, museum and archive providing integrated access to some 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers. By making its archival content available through the common interface of Europeana, EFG will contribute to fulfilling one of the major promises of an integrated digital environment: enabling users to search and retrieve different media via a single access point.