EAVE Workshops in May/June 2011
Coming up: EAVE European Producers Workshop 2 in Sweden!
EAVE Workshops in May / June
EAVE TIES THAT BIND – first workshop in Udine, Italy
We are delighted to announce that the first workshop of TIES THAT BIND Asia-Europe Producers Workshop in Udine (Italy) during the Far East Film Festival from May 3-7, 2011 has come to a successful close! The second one in Busan (South Korea) will take place during the Busan International Film Festival in parallel to the Asian Project Market from October 10-13, 2011. TIES THAT BIND is organised by Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund in partnership with EAVE, Udine Far East Film Festival and Busan International Film Festival, and supported by MEDIA Mundus. The programme brings together five producers with feature projects from Asia and five from Europe. During the two workshops they will work together with top level experts from both continents on script development, co-production between Asia and Europe, financing in the two regions, legal aspects of co-production, marketing, pitching and promotion, and meet with decision makers during both sessions. In this framework, a special mini EAVE for local producers was organised, featuring a case study of BLACK BUTTERFLIES, produced by EAVE graduate Arry Voorsmit. www.tiesthatbind.eu / www.eave.org
INTERCHANGE – first workshop in Torino, Italy
Interchange is a programme for teams of writer/director and producer from Europe or the Arab world working at a fiction feature film and film professionals interested in script editing training. The first workshop of INTERCHANGE 2011 is currently happening in Turin: During this 4-day residential workshop in Torino the teams of writer and producer will meet their tutors to work on the project development and to prepare their pitching through group sessions, lectures and case-studies. Each trainee script consultant will work on 4 projects, under the heading of a professional story editor. Interchange is run by TorinoFilmLab, the Dubai International Film Festival and EAVE and it is supported by MEDIA Mundus. www.torinofilmlab.it / www.eave.org
Coming up: EAVE European Producers Workshop 2 in Sweden!
EAVE European Producers Workshop 2011 continues in Sweden
The second week-long session of the EAVE European Producers Workshop 2011 kicks off on June 15 at hotel Gullmarsstrand in Fiskebäckskil, Sweden. The workshop is organized in co-operation with Film i Väst. The 52 EAVE producers from 32 countries continue working on their altogether 36 documentary and feature projects during June 15–22.
The 2011 EAVE pedagogical team is composed of EAVE Head of Studies Alan Fountain (UK), the four group leaders (all active, experienced producers), Roshanak Behesht Nedjad (Flying Moon, DE), Lise Lense-Møller (Magic Hour Films, DK), Danijel Hocevar (emotionfilm, SI), Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, LU); the script consultants Clare Downs (Forever Films, UK), Jacques Akchoti (FR), Martin Daniel (USA), and documentary expert Sylvia Stevens (Faction Films, UK). They are supported by the specialized experts for Pitching: Sibylle Kurz (DE), Finance: Linda Beath (Ideal Filmworks, IT), Marketing: Sarah Calderon (Karma Films, ES), Legal Issues: Roberto Olla (Eurimages, FR) and Music Rights: Laurence Kaye (UK): , who share their expertise in plenary and group work sessions and individual meetings with the EAVE participants.
Individual meetings with the script analysts and other experts, special sessions dedicated to fiction and documentary film development as well as co-producing with Sweden will complement the schedule:
Co-founder of Festival Scope Mathilde Henrot from France (formerly Head of Sales at MK2) will give a presentation addressing the various questions related to working with sales agents and international markets.
Amy Westervelt, Director and Content Acqusition/ Licensing from Rights Stuff (NL) will present specific questions related to working with digital platforms.
Finnish producer Tero Kaukomaa (Blind Spot Pictures) will present a case study of the development process, experimental funding and online marketing strategy of IRON SKY.
Film i Väst CEO Tomas Eskilsson will give the participants an overview of the possibilities of co-producing with Sweden, and Ulrika Nisell from MEDIA Desk Sweden will present the various funding schemes of the MEDIA programme.
There will be a special mini EAVE programme for Swedish film professionals with sessions on European Film Finance, Pitching and Marketing. Local professionals are also welcome to attend all the plenary sessions of the EAVE workshop. Please contact Louise Martin: louise.martin@filmivast.se
EAVE expresses special gratitude for the support of Workshop 2 to: Film i Väst, region Västra Götaland and MEDIA Desk Sweden.
EAVE is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the EU, Film Fund Luxembourg, MEDIA International, Filmfonds Wien, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, MFG-Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, Robert Bosch Stiftung, CNC, Berlinale Co-Production Market and the partners who have hosted the workshops since 1988.
Page published 3 June 2011. Updated 6 June 2011.
