EAVE European Producers Workshop 2012 culminated in Amsterdam
Press release
The EAVE 2012 European Producers Workshop came to a close with its third and last workshop held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (November 5-12), organised in partnership with Binger Filmlab and CTM LEV Pictures.
During this final workshop, the 52 participants from 30 countries had the opportunity to meet 50 high-profile European professionals from the industry* in 647 pre-scheduled one-to-one encounters and numerous informal meetings in order to pitch the 31 projects that were developed during this year's EAVE training cycle. (*Please find the complete list of Decision Makers here.)
EAVE has the pleasure to announce that this workshop ended with some very positive and concrete results for the 2012 graduates and their projects.
Among the hit projects that were highlighted by the attending decision makers were for example the documentaries 36 VIEWS – MOUNT FUJI (producer: Annemiek Van der Hell, The Netherlands) and THE UNDERTAKER: COFFINS AND AIRPLANES (producer: Jovana Nikolic, Serbia), as well as the feature films THE RED CAPTAIN (producer: Michal Kollar, Czech Republic/Slovakia), THE STORY SELLER (producer: Kristine Knudsen, Norway), THE UNLIVING (producer Bonnie Skoog Feeney, Sweden) and WHERE WE’LL NEVER GROW OLD (producer: Jacqueline Kerrin, Ireland).
A couple of EAVE 2012 projects were directly picked up for upcoming co-production markets: STAGE FRIGHT by producer Maria Drandaki was selected for Torino Film Lab and THE TREE by producer Vlado Bulaji? (Slovenia) was selected for Baltic Event. Congratulations!
And as EAVE is also the ideal platform for networking, several projects found co-producers amongst EAVE colleagues from the same year and/or from earlier years, for example BAYARD (producer Katleen Goossens; co-producer EAVE 2012 graduate Annemiek van der Hell), LORDI (producer Venla Hellstedt; co-producer EAVE 2012 graduate Martin Heisler), OUR SUN (producer: Ellen Havenith; co-producer EAVE 2012 guest expert Bart van Langendonck), SECOND LIFE (producer: Viktor Huszár; co-producers EAVE 2012 graduate Kalin Kalinov, EAVE 2009 graduate Ferenc Pusztai and EAVE 2009 graduate Arash T. Riahi), SHADOW (producer Marie Kjellson; co-producer EAVE 2012 graduate Martin Heisler), STAGE FRIGHT (producer Maria Drandaki; co- producer EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisha Juricic)
EAVE wishes all the 2012 graduates good luck for their future and thanks all the attending decision makers, experts and the pedagogical team for sharing their expertise and experience with the participants.
We also want to express our gratitude to Binger Filmlab and CTM LEV Pictures, for their great contribution in successfully running the workshop.
The EAVE 2012 European Producers Workshop was supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Film Fund Luxembourg, Croatian Audiovidual Centre, Binger Filmlab, CTM LEV Pictures, Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and EYE Film Institute.
Page published 27 November 2012.
