A New Chapter Begins: Meet the 2025 EAVE Producers Workshop Participants!
press release
As we bid farewell to yet another amazing year, it is with great joy that we introduce next year’s cohort for the EAVE Producers Workshop!
We welcome the 56 producers and professionals from 38 countries (see complete list below) that have been selected out of 304 applications from 65 countries to EAVE!
As part of the selection process, EAVE Head of Studies Lise Lense-Møller interviewed around 110 professionals from very different contexts and with very different visions, missions, and perspectives.
As she puts it, this procedure “…allows us to take the pulse of today’s industry and get a hint of tomorrow's landscape for content producers and IP creators.”
“The industry is in major transition, still recovering from COVID, with widespread uncertainty fueled by global conflicts, political upheaval, and collapsing business models yet to be replaced.
Still, the will and skill to try out new financing models, new company structures or clusters is enormously inspiring, as is the creativity when it comes to finding and adapting to new ways of producing – e.g. with the possibilities that AI has opened.
Producers are also finding new sources of finance and income and have a renewed awareness of the potential of multi-format exploitation of concepts or content.
One of the great advantages of bringing so many producers together is that, as a group, they represent a lot of different experiences, ideas, and inspiration – sometimes from unrelated, but still very relevant backgrounds.
We tailor and constantly adapt the workshop to draw on this vast potential, while at the same time attempting to keep the best possible balance between the expertise acquired over years of practice and the will to meet the moment and embrace future changes. One of our goals is to make producers resilient in times of change.”
We are particularly grateful for the generous support of our 2025 scholarship partners:
- The French CNC supports the participation of 3 international producers at the EAVE Producers Workshop, namely Jiries Copti (Palestine), Milad Khosravi (Iran) and Evodie Ngueyeli N. (Cameroon).
- Thanks to German regional fund MDM, Albanian producer Blerina Hankollari and Serbian producer Marija Lero will develop their skills at the EAVE 2025 course.
- PACT is offering a scholarship to one UK producer (Emilie Jouffroy) in the name and memory of EAVE expert Dorothy Viljoen.
- Our partnerships with Telefilm Canada and SODEC made it possible for two producers from Canada (Sonya di Rienzo and Line Sander Egede) to attend the programme.
- The support of Projeto Paradiso was granted to Leonardo Mecchi from Brazil.
- Thanks to our collaboration with the Film Centre of Montenegro, Milena Charan will participate in the programme.
- The Italian regional fund Fondo Audiovisivo Friuli Venezia Giulia supports the participation of Maria Kontogianni from Greece and Julia Sinkevych from Ukraine
In addition to those, a number of scholarships have been allocated by EAVE, including an EAVE diversity scholarship for European participants who identify as black, indigenous or people of colour. Additional EAVE scholarships were given in priority to participants from European low production capacity countries.
We would like to thank our partners, consultants, pedagogical team, and all the members of the EAVE family for their precious support and wish you all a peaceful holiday season and a good start into the New Year!
Happy Holidays!
The EAVE office is closed from December 23-31, 2024.
Your EAVE team will be back on January 2, 2025.
The selected participants for the EAVE Producers Workshop 2025 are:
ALBANIA
Blerina Hankollari, Artalb Film Productions
BELGIUM
Rosa Spaliviero, Twenty Nine Studio & Production
Stephen Vandingenen, A Private View
BRAZIL
Lorena Bondarovsky, Conspiração Filmes
Leonardo Mecchi, Enquadramento Produções
CAMEROON
Evodie Ngueyeli N., Les Films d'Ebene
CANADA
Sonya Di Rienzo, Hawkeye Pictures
Line Sander Egede, Intuitive Pictures / TAK films
CROATIA
Tina Tišljar, Eclectica
CZECH REPUBLIC
Alzbeta Janackova, Silk Films
DENMARK
Tine Mikkelsen, Zentropa
Katrine A. Sahlstrøm, Good Company Pictures
ESTONIA
Andreas Kask, Nafta Films
Nele Paves, Estonian Film Institute
FINLAND
Julia Elomäki, Tekele productions
Jonna Enroth, Rocky Road Pictures
FRANCE
Marie Garrett, Pulsar Content
Paulus Hagemeyer, Coproduction Office
Jonathan Rubin, WE FILM
FRANCE/INDIA
Avantika Singh Desbouvries, Salt for Sugar Films / Off Season Films
FRANCE/TUNISIA
Kaouthar Hadidi, 3ÈME GENRE PRODUCTION
FRANCE/UK
Emilie Jouffroy, Elation Pictures
GERMANY
Katharina Bergfeld, Ma.ja.de. Filmproduktions
Sebastian Herbst, arkanum pictures
Jorgo Narjes, X Filme
GREECE
Maria Kontogianni, Wild At Heart
Maria Laskaridou, Argonauts Productions
ICELAND
Sunna Guðnadóttir, Bjartsýn films
INDIA
Angad Singh, Superbad
IRAN
Milad Khosravi, Seven Springs Pictures
IRELAND
Paul Fitzsimons, Prelude Media Limited t/a Prelude Content
ITALY
Lorenzo Cioffi, LADOC
JAMAICA
Nadean Rawlins, RAW Management
LUXEMBOURG
Aurore Schneidesch, Film Fund Luxembourg
MONTENEGRO
Milena Charan, Taurus Production
NETHERLANDS
Steven Rubinstein Malamud, GROM Productions
Monique van Kessel, Make Way Film
NIGERIA
Lala Akindoju, The Make It Happen Production Company
NORWAY
Anita Norfolk, Folk Film
PALESTINE
Jiries Copti, Fresco Films
POLAND
Natalia Dąbrowska, New Europe Film Sales
PORTUGAL
Patricia Faria, Uma Pedra no Sapato
SERBIA
Marija Lero, Somnium production
SOUTH AFRICA
Layla Swart, Yellowbone Entertainment
SPAIN
Anna M. Bofarull, Kaboga Art & Films
Mireia Graell, Ringo Media
Gentzane Martinez de Osaba, Bide Guztiak AIE
Gerard Rodriguez, Japonica Films
SWEDEN
Sigrid Helleday, New Land
SWITZERLAND
Magdalena Welter, Lomotion
TANZANIA
Amil Shivji, Kijiweni Productions
TURKEY
Vildan Ersen, Gataki Films
UK
Rakasree Basu, Momentum Films
Sarudzayi Marufu, Euras Films
UKRAINE
Julia Sinkevych, JS Films
US
Lucila Moctezuma
The 3 sessions of the EAVE 2025 Producers Workshop will take place in Luxembourg (March 7-14), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain (June 23-30) and Thessaloniki, Greece (October 27 – November 3).
Best regards, The EAVE team
Page published 18 December 2024. Updated 7 January 2025.
