The EAVE Producers Workshop’s 2023 edition kicks off in Luxembourg!
press release
In partnership with Film Fund Luxembourg, we are thrilled to welcome the selected 56 producers and professionals from 35 countries to develop the 29 selected documentary, feature film and series projects, as well as their careers, company structures and entrepreneurial skills at the EAVE Producers Workshop 2023.
The first of 3 residential workshops takes place from March 3–10 at the Légère Premium Hotel Luxembourg. Workshop 2 will take place in Alpbach (Austria) in June and Workshop 3 in Rotterdam (the Netherlands) in October.
The rich programme of plenary sessions during this workshop week will include topics such as script development of fiction features and TV series, defining the producer’s role from development to release, thinking audience for producers, legal issues of development, producing documentaries, approaching film financing, (a)symmetrical co-production, and company management tools.
In addition, EAVE marketing tutors Sarah Calderon (The Film Agency, ES) and Nicola Ofoego (Black Mic Mac, FR) 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.
The participants will start 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), Nayeem Mahbub (SE/BD), Clare Downs (UK), TV series consultant Esther Springer (Creators Inc, UK), and documentary expert Sylvia Stevens (Faction Films, UK). They are joined by the EAVE specialized experts - for Marketing: Sarah Calderon (The Film Agency, ES) and Nicola Ofoego (Black Mic Mac, FR), Pitching: Sibylle Kurz (DE) and Legal Issues: Katrine Schlüter Schierbeck (The Law Factory, DK), who share their expertise in plenary and group work sessions.
Guest experts at workshop 1 include Sarah Bamberg (Film Fund Luxembourg, LU), Jean des Forêts (Petit Film, FR), Sophie Erbs (Gaijin, FR), Danny Krausz (DOR Film, AT) and Bernard Michaux (Samsa Film, LU)
All plenary sessions are open for interested local professionals. For the detailed programme and COVID safety instructions, please contact EAVE Deputy CEO Satu Elo satu@eave.org.
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, Doha Film Institute, Telefilm Canada, SODEC, IDM Südtirol Alto Adige, Fonds Jeune Création Francophone, Projeto Paradiso, TRT - Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, Berlinale Co-Production Market and the partners who have hosted the workshops since 1988.
The selected participants of EAVE Producers Workshop 2023 are:
ALBANIA
Enea Gramo, Art Film
AUSTRIA
Andi G Hess, DOR Film
Bernhard Holzhammer, Eutopiafilm
AZERBAIJAN
Maria Ibrahimova, Cinex Productions
BELGIUM
Maarten Schmidt, Storyhouse
BRAZIL
Julia Alves, Sancho&Punta
CANADA
Jessica Lea Fleming, Canada Media Fund
Julie Groleau, Couronne Nord
Sahar Yousefi, Nava Projects
CROATIA
Tena Gojic, Dinaridi Film
CZECH REPUBLIC
Jakub Košťál, Bionaut
DENMARK
Puk Lodahl Eisenhardt, GotFat Productions
Johannes Rothaus Nørregaard, SAM Productions ApS / Metafilm
FINLAND
John Lundsten, TACK Films
Pilvi Waltzer, BUFO
FRANCE
Thomas Lambert, Tomsa Films
Geraldine Ohana, Echo Studio
GEORGIA
Archil Gelovani, Independent Film Project
GEORGIA / USA
Tsiako Abesadze, Natura Film / Mulholland Films
GERMANY
Solmaz Azizi, Studio Zentral
Birthe Klinge, German Federal Film Board FFA
Clemens Köstlin, Coproduction Office
GHANA
Ike Yemoh, A.K.A Entertainment
GREECE
Mando Stathi, Byrd
HUNGARY
Marcell Gerő, Campfilm
HUNGARY / SWITZERLAND
Judith Lichtneckert, Emilia Productions / Perron X
IRELAND
Ali Doyle, Wild Atlantic Pictures
Evan Horan, Blinder Films
ITALY
Chiara Galloni, Articolture
Martin Rattini, Helios Sustainable Films
JORDAN
Yanal Barakat, freelance
KENYA
Carol Kioko, Lemon Slice Pictures
LUXEMBOURG
Carole Kremer, Film Fund Luxembourg
NETHERLANDS
Dany Delvoie, Netherlands Film Fund
Max de Wolf, Topkapi Films
Rogier Kramer, Dutch Mountain Film
NORWAY
Beathe Hofseth, Fri Film
POLAND
Magdalena Sztorc, Before My Eyes
Aneta Zagorska, Krakow Film Klaster
SENEGAL
Yanis Gaye, Goree Island Cinema
SERBIA
Milos Ivanovic, Set Sail Films
SLOVENIA
Jerca Jerič, Temporama
Lija Pogačnik, December
SOUTH KOREA
Heejung Oh, Seesaw Pictures
SPAIN
Ariadna Dot, Lastor Media
Belen Sanchez Silvero, Un Capricho de Producciones
SWEDEN
Mario Adamson, Sisyfos Film Production
Erika Malmgren, Cinenic Film
Lisa Nyed, Film i Skåne
SWITZERLAND
Michael Graf, Cloud Fog Haze Pictures / Makadam Films
Katia Monla, Intermezzo Films
TURKEY
İpek Erden, Vayka Film
UK
Sinead Kirwan, Enemy Films
UKRAINE
Darya Bassel, Moon Man
Olga Zhurzhenko, UKRKINO.pro
USA
Melissa Adeyemo, Ominira Studios
Page published 1 March 2023. Updated 2 March 2023.
