The EAVE Producers Workshop’s 2022 edition has kicked off on-site in Luxembourg!

press release

In partnership with Film Fund Luxembourg, we were thrilled to welcome for the first time this year the selected 55 producers and professionals from 35 countries to develop the 31 selected documentary, feature film and series projects, as well as their careers, company structures and entrepreneurial skills at the EAVE Producers Workshop 2022.

The first of 3 residential workshops took place from March 4–11 at the Légère Premium Hotel Luxembourg. Workshop 2 will take place in Pärnu (Estonia) in June and Workshop 3 in Barcelona (Spain) in October.

Some highlights of this week:

• Introduction to Series Development and Production: EAVE graduate Yvonne Donohoe (Blinder Films, IE) shared her experience and insight on what it takes to move into producing series.
• Content and Strategy – the Producer’s Role from Development to Audience: EAVE Head of Studies Lise Lense-Møller (Magic Hour Films, DK) devoted her plenary session to the specific questions and challenges related to the role of a producer from early development until the release of the film.
• Become a PMD/marketing expert: Sarah Calderon (The Film Agency, ES) runs 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.

Various plenary sessions around script development strategies, legal aspects of development, company planning, film finance, documentary film production, were part of the schedule.

The participants started their EAVE journey under the guidance of EAVE Head of Studies Lise Lense-Møller (Magic Hour Films, DK), the four group leaders, Ankica Jurić Tilić (Kinorama, HR), Michael Kitzberger (Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH, AT), Riina Sildos (Amrion, EE) and Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, LU); the script consultants Jacques Akchoti (FR), Martin Daniel (USA), Clare Downs (UK), TV series consultant Ossi Nishri (IL), and documentary expert Sylvia Stevens (Faction Films, UK).

They were joined by the EAVE specialized experts - for Finance and Company Planning: Linda Beath (Ideal Filmworks, IT), Marketing: Sarah Calderon (The Film Agency, ES), Pitching: Sibylle Kurz (DE) and Legal Issues: Katrine Schlüter Schierbeck (The Law Factory, DK), who shared their expertise in plenary and group work sessions as well as individual meetings.

 
All plenary sessions were open for interested local professionals.

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.

EAVE is supported by the Creative Europe - MEDIA sub-programme of the European Union, Film Fund Luxembourg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée, Fondo Audiovisivo Friuli Venezia Giulia, PACT – the Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television, the Polish Film Institute, Doha Film Institute, Telefilm Canada, SODEC, IDM Südtirol Alto Adige, Fonds Jeune Création Francophone, Projeto Paradiso, TRT - Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, VIPO | Visual Industry Promotion Organization, Berlinale Co-Production Market and the partners who have hosted the workshops since 1988.

 

The selected participants for the EAVE Producers Workshop 2022 are:

 

AUSTRIA

Johannes Schubert, Schubert Film

 

BELGIUM

Maarten D’Hollander, Krater Films

Magalie Dierick, Cassette for timescapes

Elisa Heene, Mirage

 

BRAZIL

Ticiana Augusto Lima, Tardo

Simone Oliveira, Globo Filmes

 

CANADA

Elodie Pollet, Films Exterieur Jour

Frances-Anne Solomon, CaribbeanTales Media Group

 

CROATIA

Ivan Perić, Focus Media

 

CZECH REPUBLIC

Julie Zackova, Unit and Sofa

 

DENMARK

Signe Skov Thomsen, Hansen & Pedersen

 

ESTONIA

Filipp Kruusvall, Estonian Film Institute

Elina Litvinova, Three Brothers

 

FINLAND

Jenni Jauri, Tuffi Films

Mikko Peltonen, AVEK - The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture

 

FRANCE

Lamia Chraibi, Moon a Deal Films

Nicola Ofoego, France TV Distribution / Maremako / Mondex et Cie.

Clara Vuillermoz, Point du Jour-Les films du balibari

 

GERMANY

Julia Cöllen, Fünferfilm

Maximilian Haslberger, Amerikafilm

Roxana Richters, Chromosom Film

 

GREECE

Effie Skrobola, View Master Films

Danae Spathara, Heretic

 

HUNGARY

Claudia Sümeghy, JUNO11 Pictures

 

INDONESIA

Yulia Evina Bhara, KawanKawan Media

 

IRELAND

Tamryn Reinecke, Pale Rebel Productions

 

ITALY

Luigi Giuseppe Chimienti, Disparte

Daniele Segre, Redibis Film

 

JAPAN

Eiko Mizuno-Gray, Loaded Films

 

JORDAN

Mais Salman, Nomadic Film House

 

LUXEMBOURG

Sarah Bamberg, Film Fund Luxembourg

 

NETHERLANDS

Ilja Roomans, Docmakers

Noortje Wilschut, Family Affair Films

 

NORTH MACEDONIA

Marija Dimitrova, List Production

 

NORWAY

Renée Mlodyszewski, Oslo Pictures / True Content Entertainment

 

PALESTINE

Rashid Abdelhamid, Made in Palestine Project

 

PHILIPPINES

Alemberg Ang, Daluyong Studios

 

POLAND

Marta Szarzynska, KINHOUSE STUDIO

Joanna Zielinska, dFlights

 

ROMANIA

Carla Fotea, microFILM

Anda Iulia Ionescu, Tangaj Production

 

SLOVENIA

Katja Lenarčič, Vertigo

Igor Masera, Slovenian Film Centre

 

SOUTH AFRICA

Tshego Molete Khanyile, Zinc Pictures

Tamsin Ranger, Big World Cinema

 

SPAIN

Sergio Grobas, Mayo films

 

SWEDEN

Siri Hjorton Wagner, [sic] film

Niklas Larsson, SF Studios Production

Linda Mutawi, Atmo

Theo Tsappos, Swedish Film Institute

 

SWITZERLAND

Nadine Lüchinger, Filmgerberei

 

TURKEY

Halil Kardaş, Filmcode Production

 

UK

Reece Cargan, Bombito Productions

 

USA

Keith McQuirter, Decoder Media

 

ZIMBABWE

Tapiwa Chipfupa, Ambidextrous Pictures

Page published 1 March 2022. Updated 31 March 2022.