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EAVE Producers Workshop 2018 ends in Santiago de Compostela!

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The EAVE 2018 Producers Workshop’s third and final workshop is taking place in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (October 22-29) right now, in partnership with AGADIC XUNTA DE GALICIA.

70 leading international decision makers (complete list below) are gathering in Santiago de Compostela to meet the 50 top producing talents from 36 countries and discover the 25 fiction and documentary projects developed during this year’s EAVE Producers’ Workshop.

The week features special events around outreach, producer-director relationship, TV series, the financial implications of the digital shift and innovative ways of developing, financing, producing, promoting and distributing audiovisual content.

In addition to a rich programme of plenary sessions, group work and individual meetings with EAVE experts and guests, a couple of special events are taking place during the week:

Live Stream on Tuesday October 23 from Ciudad de la Cultura:
Beyond Movies – New Media Story Telling and Producer-Director Relationship

EAVE was hosted by Xunta de Galicia at Ciudad de la Cultura on October 23, where two plenary sessions were given to EAVE participants and the local industry. Both of these sessions were also livestreamed and are available also on the EAVE web page.

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Beyond Movies – New Media Story Telling with an outlook on the future of storytelling, financing, distributing and marketing audiovisual content. Various speakers explore the opportunities of the digital shift in the session moderated by Domenico La Porta (BE): Lorenzo Benedetti (Studio Bagel, Canal+, FR), Karim Ben Khelifa (“THE ENEMY”, DE) and Arnaud Colinart (ATLAS V, FR).

Director of Israel Film Fund Katriel Schory shared his insight into a fruitful Producer-Director Relationship.

Both sessions are available to watch online until October 29!

Outreach – EAVE Group Leader Lise Lense-Møller and Outreach Producer Kristoffer Barslund from Magic Hour Films (DK) talked about successful outreach campaigns.

TV Series and Digital Distribution - by Terea Fernándéz-Valdes from Bambú Producciones (ES), chosen by the Hollywood Reporter as one of the most powerful showrunners of European and World television in 2014 and 1016, respectively, and producer of the first original Netflix series in Spain, Las Chicas del Cable

A panel session with EAVE finance expert Linda Beath and Karoliina Dwyer (Yellow Affair, FI) tackled the financial realities of digital distribution of European films.

Producing in and with Spain – an overview of the production landscape in Spain, and its co-production possibilities by Peter Andermatt (Creative Europe MEDIA Desk Spain) and Manuel Monzon (A Contracorriente Films, ES)

EAVE@Santiago de Compostela

In addition to opening up all the plenary sessions for the local industry, EAVE also organized a special tailor-made workshop for selected local producers from Galicia:

EAVE finance expert Linda Beath (Ideal Filmworks, IT) gave an up-to-date overview of the possibilities of film financing in Europe. EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, LU) discussed company management, structures and strategies with the participants. Karoliina Dwyer from Yellow Affair (FI) gave the participants advice on their strategies for international sales, distribution and festivals. In addition, the participants participated at all available plenary sessions, and had tailor-made individual meetings with EAVE experts.

The 70 high-profile decision makers confirmed for Santiago de Compostela are:

Helen Ahlsson / Swedish Film Institute (SE), Zsuzsi Bankuti / The Match Factory (DE), Kazz Basma / Sideways Film (UK), Artemio Benki / Artcam / Sirena Film (CZ), Delphyne Besse / Urban Distribution International (FR), Francesca Breccia / Coccinelle Film (IT), Fay Breeman / Hubert Bals Fund (NL), Manuela Buono / Slingshot Films (IT), Daniela Chlapikova / Pluto Film Distribution Network (DE), Sata Cissokho / Memento Films International (FR), Guy Daleiden / Film Fund Luxembourg (LU), Claas Danielsen / Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (DE), Tijana Djukic / Taskovski Films (UK), Ellis Driessen / Netherlands Film Fund (NL), Karoliina Dwyer / Yellow Affair (FI), Marco Valerio Fusco / Intramovies (IT), Simon Gabriele / Indie Sales (FR), Iole Maria Giannattasio / MiBACT (IT), Per-Eirik Gilsvik / SØRFOND (NO), Marie-Hélène Girod / ARTE France (FR), Gabor Greiner / Films Boutique (DE), Alessandro Gropplero / Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund (IT), Helle Hansen / Norwegian Film Institute (NO), Xavier Henry-Rashid / Film Republic (UK), Alexis Hofmann / BAC Films (FR), Hanaa Issa / Doha Film Institute (Qatar), Ali Khechen / Doha Film Institute (Qatar), Tine Klint (Level K, DK), Danny Krausz / DOR FILM (AT), Pierre-Alexandre Labelle / Under the Milky Way (FR), Anne Lai / Sundance Institute (US), Antoine Le Bos / Le Groupe Ouest (FR), Loïc Magneron / Wild (FR), Anthony Muir / Film Väst (SE), Jan Naszewski / New Europe Film Sales (PL), Kirsten Niehuus / Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (DE), Simon Ofenloch / ZDF/ARTE (DE), Rickard Olsson / Picture Tree International (DE), Agneta Perman / Sveriges Television (SE), Philippe Pierquin / Wallimage (BE), Malika Rabahallah / Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (DE), Irena Jelic / Croatian Audiovisual Center (HR), Julie-Jeanne Régnault / CNC (FR), Alexandra Reveyrand-de Menthon / Charades (FR), Jan Roekens / Screen Flanders (BE), Cecile Salin / Diaphana Distribution (FR), Katriel Schory / Israel Film Fund (IL), Ada Solomon / Hi Film Productions (RO), Britta Strampe / Majestic Distribution (DE), Joakim Rang Strand / Film i Skåne (SE), Nathalie Streiff / Institut Français / Cinémas du Monde (FR), Weerada Sucharitkul / FilmDoo (UK), Roland Teichmann / Austrian Film Institute (AT),  Agathe Valentin / Totem Films (FR), Marie-Pierre Vallé / Wild Bunch (FR), Esther Van Messel / First Hand Films (CH), Daniel Waser / Zürcher Filmstiftung (CH) and Hédi Zardi / Luxbox (FR).

Various special guests from Europe’s leading co-production markets EAVE has partnerships with will be available for one-to-one meetings:  

Miriam Allen / Galway Film Fleadh (IE), Marjorie Bendeck / Connecting Cottbus (DE), Martina Bleis / Berlinale Co-production Market (DE), Fay Breeman / CineMart (NL), Annette Brejner / Financing Forum for Kids Content (SE), Anna Ciennik / Les Arcs Industry Village (FR), Mercedes Fernandez / TorinoFilmLab (IT), Alessandro Gropplero / When East Meets West (IT), Marge Liiske / Baltic Event (EE), Helena Mackenzie / Film London (UK), Mira Staleva / Sofia Meetings (BG) and Angeliki Vergou / Crossroads Co-production Forum (GR).

Plenary sessions, group work and individual meetings with EAVE experts and guests

Group work with EAVE group leaders Diana Elbaum (BE), Titus Kreyenberg (DE), Lise Lense-Møller (DK) and Riina Sildos (EE).

Linda Beath (IT) - Strategic Planning for Production Companies, Sibylle Kurz (DE) - Pitching, Pierre-Emmanuel Mouthuy (BE) – Legal Aspects of Distribution and Sales and Jani Thiltges (LU) - Career Development.

EAVE Management coach Michael Comyn (The Fearless Organisation, IE) gave an introduction to the art of negotiation and trainede the participants in group sessions.

The first two workshops of 2018 took place in Luxembourg (March 8-15) and Stavanger, Norway (June 22-29).

For more information, please contact satu@eave.org.

Best regards, The EAVE team

Page published 29 October 2018. Updated 5 November 2018.


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