EAVE October News 2024
- Curtains up: EAVE 2024 Producers Workshop in Karlskrona, Sweden
press release - CHANGE Co-Production Training Course: Selection Announcement for 2024/2025
press release - Apply now for EAVE SLATE 2025!
press release
Curtains up: EAVE 2024 Producers Workshop in Karlskrona, Sweden
The EAVE 2024 Producers Workshop’s third and final session will take place in Karlskrona, Sweden, from October 14-21!
The newest members of the EAVE network, after a year of training to develop their producing skills, are now ready to present themselves and their projects to the international market in meetings specially curated by EAVE.
We will welcome 89 “future partners” – leading international industry professionals - to meet the 56 rising producing talents from 36 countries and discuss the 26 fiction, documentary and series projects developed during this year’s EAVE Producers’ Workshop under the guidance of EAVE’s top experts.
Workshop Highlights
- Unpacking AI for Human Producers by Maciej Zemocjin (independent AI and VP expert, PL)
- The Use of AI in Marketing Tools by Espinar Gabriel (The Film Agency, ES)
- A series of different perspectives to Virtual Production by Maciej Zemocjin & Katarzyna Stegnerska (ATM Virtual, PL), Chris Couzens (Sony, UK), Henrik JP Åkesson (Filmnod Blekinge, SE), Anton Johansson (Istudio Visuals, SE) and Andrea Nordwall (Belkinge Institute of Technology, SE)
- A Filmmaker in a TV company by Max Malka (Banijay Finland, FI)
- Reframing Narratives: Storytelling Through an Inclusive Lens by Tamara Dawit (Gobez Media, CA)
- Supranational Support to Film and TV Series: Council of Europe and Eurimages by Iris Cadoux (Eurimages), Patrizia Simone (Eurimages) and Alex Traila (Council of Europe).
- Producing with Sweden with Charlotta Denward (Swedish Film Institute), Madeleine Ekman, Piodor Gustafsson (Black Spark Film & TV / Rainy Days Productions), Henrik JP Åkesson (Filmnod Blekinge, SE); moderator: Julia Gebauer (Way Creative Films)
Building bridges with the Swedish industry
Parallel to the main workshop schedule, EAVE offers a special tailor-made programme for 10 selected participants from Sweden, as well as open plenary sessions for a wider Swedish audience of film industry professionals, creating also synergies with Carl Film Forum, which takes place in Karlskrona from October 14-15.
Many thanks to our valuable partners who make the workshop possible!
The EAVE 2024 Producers Workshop’s third and final session in Karlskona is organized in partnership with Filmnod Blekinge, Region Blekinge, Swedish Film Institute, Karlskrona Kommun and Blekinge Institute of Technology.
The first two sessions of the EAVE 2024 Producers Workshop took place from March 7-14 in Luxembourg and from June 7-14 in Trondheim, Norway.
For more information, please contact satu@eave.org.
CHANGE Co-Production Training Course: Selection Announcement for 2024/2025
EAVE, IMS and CPH:DOX are proud to announce the fourth round of the CHANGE programme, empowering documentary film projects from the European Eastern Partnership countries. For the 2024/2025 line-up, eight teams from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine will join the co-production training workshop series.
CHANGE is a collaboration between CPH:DOX, the world’s leading documentary film festival supporting independent and innovative filmmaking, EAVE, one of Europe’s leading training, development, and networking organisation for producers, and International Media Support (IMS), a non-profit organisation working to promote journalism and documentary film to reduce conflict, strengthen democracy and facilitate dialogue.
The CHANGE programme seeks to increase equality and access in the international film market by fostering inter-regional co-productions. It connects filmmakers, producers, and projects from the European Eastern Partnership countries with global film professionals at CPH:DOX, creating opportunities for collaboration and elevating diverse voices on the international stage.
The programme aims to improve the participants’ skills in refining their projects’ content, core themes and goals. It also focuses on strengthening their abilities in regional and international collaboration and co-production, and navigating the financing structures and the production environment. By the end of the programme, participants are ready to encounter the international market and present their projects on a global platform.
The selected projects in the fourth round explore new and diverse topics and perspectives ranging from large-scale political narratives to seemingly hyper-local stories. They address critical themes and offer nuanced perspectives on issues such as pollution, corruption, patriarchy, and war in a post-colonial context. The projects showcase the courage and creativity of the talented cohort filmmakers, who confront resistance with bravery on some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
CHANGE - Co-production training course will open in Chisinau, Moldova in October 2024 and will combine masterclasses and group work sessions, as well as individual meetings for the 8 selected producer-director teams. The same participants will continue to work together in the second workshop in January 2025 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The programme will culminate with a third workshop and presentation of the projects to the international industry at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen in March 2025.
The selected projects are:
- Kura, prod. Afag Yusifli, dir. Murad Allahverdi, Azerbaijan
- Missing In Action, prod. Aliona Kachkan, dir. Kateryna Holovko, Marharyta Melnychuk, Ukraine
- My Name Is Enough, prod. Ani Ordyan, dir. Marina Arzumanova, Armenia
- Eyes Wide Open (working title), prod. Nino Orjonikidze, dir. Sopho Apriamashvili, Georgia
- Whispers of Womanhood, prod. Olga Slusareva, dir. Rati Tsiteladze, Georgia
- Entr’actes, prod. Olha Tuharinova, dir. Yuriy Shylov, Ukraine
- Leave Easy Come Back Safe, prod. Sasha Family Kulak, dir. Sasha Family Kulak, Masha Maroz, Belarus
- Import/Export MD, prod. Sergiu Scobioala, dir. Max Ciorbă, Moldova
THE PARTNERSHIP BEHIND CHANGE
EAVE is a professional training, project development and networking organisation for audiovisual producers. Founded in 1988, our objectives are to provide professional training opportunities and to bring producers from different regions of the world together with the aim of facilitating co-production relationships. We believe that the support of independent voices, creative imagination and culturally driven companies within the global media industries is an urgent necessity in the 21st century. Through our work we aim to contribute towards the creation of strong networks of producers and to encourage the exchange of knowledge and skills which will strengthen independent production across the world.
International Media Support (IMS) is a non-profit organisation working to promote journalism and documentary film to strengthen the capacity of media to reduce conflict, strengthen democracy and facilitate dialogue. Our work is geared towards helping locally-based public interest media operating in armed conflicts, humanitarian crises and rapid political change, both positive and negative, to provide the public and “civic organisations” with public interest content they can trust and use. We work in more than 40 countries across four continents with a staff of about 170 people.
CPH:DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, is a world leading documentary film festival supporting independent and innovative filmmaking and presenting the best and brightest in contemporary non-fiction film. The festival is known and widely respected for radically changing the documentary landscape with a focus on challenging the genre with cross over to other art forms, and for advancing art as an active voice in civil society. Annually presenting approx. 200 films, the annual festival’s audience has grown to more than 125,000, and our industry platform, championing high-end cinematic and hybrid filmmaking welcomes annually nearly 2,000 industry professionals from a wide variety of sectors across creative documentary, hybrid non-fiction, visual arts, journalism and science. CPH:INDUSTRY includes a pitch platform CPH:FORUM, CPH:MARKET services for finished films and a talent development programme CPH:LAB.
Apply now for EAVE SLATE 2025!
EAVE SLATE is an intense and compact workshop on strategic company planning and how to build a successful company slate.
This innovative programme, run by When East Meets West, the co-production platform of Trieste Film Festival, in close partnership with EAVE, will select up to 12 European and Latin American companies that are developing a slate of A/V works and will offer them consultancies on how to build a successful company slate and strategic company planning, together with business-to-business exchanges with key players from different industry sectors.
The programme combines the EAVE group work method with a series of plenary sessions and individual consultancies focusing on strategic company planning, potential risk evaluation and company diversification. The main goal is to define realistic short-, mid- and long-term strategies for their companies and how to pick the right projects to include in their company slates.
The EAVE Slate will take place in Trieste (Italy), during WEMW from 17th to 21st January 2025. All participants selected will be granted physical access to the market venue.
The call for applications for EAVE Slate 2025 is now open!
Deadline: 5 November, 2024 23.59 CET
Fee: EUR 450
Check further details on eligibility, submission criteria, fee waivers and scholarships on the application page.
EAVE SLATE INFO DAY
If you wish to get more info about EAVE Slate, please join the WEMW INFO DAY on Thursday October 22 from 15.00 to 16.00 (CET timezone). To confirm your attendance please fill in the registration form no later than October 18.
EAVE SLATE is one of the “EAVE Boosters”: short, concise & intensive workshops to boost your skills and companies, developing new innovative business models (EAVE SLATE) and new digital skills following the latest tech advancements (EAVE AI SKILLS BOOSTER). Both non project-based workshops respond to the needs of a changing industry that requires new skills and business models.
