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Spotlight on film marketing: the EAVE Marketing Workshop 2016 takes off in Luxembourg!

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« If you have a project and you need a strategy to place it on the market, the EAVE Marketing Workshop is what I will recommend to you, to know everything about this process. »

Unai Aranzadi, Independent Docs, Sweden - EAVE Marketing Workshop 2015

The EAVE Marketing Workshop – 4 intense days around innovative film marketing and audience building – takes place in Luxembourg, at the Novotel Luxembourg Centre from November 16-20, 2016, in partnership with Film Fund Luxembourg. We welcome 34 producers and industry professionals from 23 different countries and 14 selected projects in different stages of development.

Head of Studies Pim Hermeling (September Film Distribution), trailer editor Fraser Bensted (Picture Production Company), festivals and publicity consultant Gudrun Burie (The PR Factory), marketing consultant Sarah Calderon (The Film Agency), sales expert Didar Domehri (Maneki Films - Fullhouse), VoD expert Muriel Joly (Under The Milky Way), social media consultant Dan Light (Glass Eye) and producer Frans van Gestel (Topkapi Films) will work with the participants on their projects in group work and share their expertise in interactive plenary sessions and private tutorials.

« I highly appreciate the knowledge the experts shared. Getting first hand professional feedback has helped putting the right perspective on the marketing and distribution of the project. »

Gabija Budreckyte, Kinomind Films, Lithuania - EAVE Marketing Workshop 2015


The topics covered include digital marketing and VoD, mini case studies that explore the marketing strategies from the point of view of the producer, the distributor, the international sales agent, and shed a light on how to work with festivals and publicity, and working with trailers and showreels. During the hands-on workshop, the trailer for one project will be edited as a live case study.

EAVE, in co-operation with the Creative Europe MEDIA Desk Luxembourg, also offers the participants of the workshop a possibility to build connections to the local film professionals in Luxembourg during a special networking event. 

EAVE expresses special gratitude for the support of EAVE Marketing Workshop to: Film Fund Luxembourg, Creative Europe MEDIA Desk Luxembourg and Hotel Novotel Luxembourg Centre.


« The EAVE Marketing Workshop is a great chance to meet experienced industry professionals and a diverse crowd of international participants. It’s an especially great chance to broaden your network in an informal setting and discuss hands-on approaches of current projects. It has de?nitely helped me to widen my professional perspective in the industry. »

Maximilian Mayrshofer, Space Rocket Nation, Denmark - EAVE Marketing Workshop 2015

Page published 14 November 2016.


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A scholarship has been set up to honour the memory of Alan Fountain, former Head of Studies and President of EAVE, who passed away in 2016. Its goal is to enable one producer from outside the EU to participate in all three sessions of the EAVE Producers Workshop each year.

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