EAVE Producers Workshop 2025: The Next Generation of Producer Talents in Luxembourg!

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In partnership with Film Fund Luxembourg and supported by Creative Europe, EAVE welcomes 56 producers and industry professionals from 38 countries to participate in this year’s programme.

Participants will have the unique opportunity to develop the 26 selected documentary, feature film and series projects, as well as to focus on their careers, company structures and entrepreneurial skills over one year.

This workshop takes place from March 7–14, 2025 at the Légère Premium Hotel Luxembourg and is the starting point of a transformative training journey spanning over 3 residential workshops. Workshop 2 will take place in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) in June and Workshop 3 in Thessaloniki (Greece) in October-November.

A rich variety of plenary sessions during this workshop week will include topics such as:

Script, series and documentary development
The producer’s role
Thinking audience & marketing tools
Legal aspects in development
TV series and documentary production
Film financing
Company management tools
Pitching
AI toolbox for producers

>>> All plenary sessions are open for interested local professionals in Luxembourg! For the detailed programme and registration, please contact EAVE Deputy CEO Satu Elo satu@eave.org.

Guidance from top-notch Industry Leaders

The participants’ journey this year will be led by:

EAVE Head of Studies Lise Lense-Møller (Magic Hour Films, DK)
The four group leaders, Didar Domehri (Maneki Films, France), Ankica Jurić Tilić (Kinorama, HR), Michael Kitzberger (Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH, AT) and Joanna Szymanska (Shipsboy, PL)
The script consultants Jacques Akchoti (FR), Nayeem Mahbub (EE/BD), Géraldine Ohana (FR), Arash T. Riahi (Golden Girls, AT) and documentary expert Sylvia Stevens (Faction Films, UK)

They are joined by top notch EAVE industry experts in different areas:

Marketing: Sarah Calderon and Raquel Cabrera (The Film Agency, ES)
Pitching: Sibylle Kurz (DE)
Legal Issues: Katrine Schlüter Schierbeck (The Law Factory, DK)
Financing: Jennifer Sabbah-Immagine (Scale & Scope, FR)
Company management: Sophie Erbs (Gaijin, FR)
TV series: Solmaz Azizi (Studio Zentral, DE), Petri Kemppinen (P1 Kemppinen, FI), Géraldine Ohana (FR)
Career and company issues for career participants: Petri Kemppinen (P1 Kemppinen, FI)

Guest experts at workshop 1 include

Sarah Bamberg (Film Fund Luxembourg, LU)
Bernard Michaux (Samsa Film, LU).

The EAVE ‘marketing incubator programme’

EAVE marketing consultants Sarah Calderon and Raquel Cabrera will run a special ‘marketing incubator programme’ in the groups and over the whole year, offering an intense PMD marketing training in cooperation with the EAVE Marketing Workshop.

Special Thanks and Recognition

EAVE expresses special gratitude for the support of Workshop 1 to: Film Fund Luxembourg; CREATIVE EUROPE Desk Luxembourg - MEDIA sub-programme; Légère Premium Hotel Luxembourg.