The EAVE Producers Workshop’s 2024 programme takes off in Luxembourg!
press release
In partnership with Film Fund Luxembourg and supported by Creative Europe, EAVE welcomes 56 handpicked producers and industry professionals from 36 countries to participate in this year’s programme.
Participants will have the unique opportunity to develop the 28 selected documentary, feature film and series projects, as well as to focus on their careers, company structures and entrepreneurial skills over one year.
This workshop takes place from March 7–14 at the Légère Premium Hotel Luxembourg and is the starting point of a transformative training journey spanning over 3 residential workshops. Workshop 2 will take place in Trondheim (Norway) in June and Workshop 3 in Karlskrona (Sweden) in October.
A rich variety of plenary sessions during this workshop week will include topics such as:
- script development of fiction features and TV series
- the producer’s role from development to release
- thinking audience & marketing tools for producers
- legal aspects in development
- the specifics of documentary and TV series production
- film financing
- company management tools.
All plenary sessions are open for interested local professionals. For the detailed programme and registration, please contact EAVE Deputy CEO Satu Elo satu@eave.org.
Guidance from top-notch Industry Leaders
The participants’ journey this year will be led by:
- EAVE Head of Studies Lise Lense-Møller (Magic Hour Films, DK)
- the four group leaders, Didar Domehri (Maneki Films, France), Ankica Jurić Tilić (Kinorama, HR), Michael Kitzberger (Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH, AT) and Riina Sildos (Amrion, EE)
- the script consultants Martin Daniel (US), Clare Downs (UK), Nayeem Mahbub (EE/BD), TV series consultant Esther Springer (Creators Inc, UK), and documentary expert Sylvia Stevens (Faction Films, UK).
They are joined by leading EAVE industry experts in different areas:
- Marketing: Sarah Calderon (The Film Agency, ES) and Nicola Ofoego (Black Mic Mac, FR)
- Pitching: Sibylle Kurz (DE)
- Legal Issues: Katrine Schlüter Schierbeck (The Law Factory, DK)
- Financing: Jean des Forêts (Petit Film, FR)
- Company management: Sophie Erbs (Gaijin, FR)
- Producing series & career planning: Petri Kemppinen (P1 Kemppinen, FI).
Guest experts at workshop 1 include
- Sarah Bamberg (Film Fund Luxembourg, LU)
- Carole Kremer (Film Fund Luxembourg/Creative Europe MEDIA Desk Luxembourg, LU).
The EAVE ‘marketing incubator programme’
EAVE marketing consultants Sarah Calderon and Nicola Ofoego 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.
Special Thanks and Recognition
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, Romanian Cultural Institute, Institut Français Nigeria, French Embassy in Nigeria, Berlinale Co-Production Market, the DEENTAL-ACP programme, implemented by the CNC with the financial collaboration of the European Union and the support of the Organisation of ACP Countries, as well as the partners who have hosted the workshops since 1988.
The selected participants of EAVE Producers Workshop 2024 are:
AUSTRIA
Lena Weiss, Glitter and Doom
BRAZIL
Letícia Friedrich, Vitrine Filmes
BULGARIA
Nikolay Urumov, BOF Pictures
CANADA
Dominique Dussault, Nemesis Films
Caitlin Grabham, Prowler Film
COLOMBIA
Diana Camargo, Laberinto Cine y Televisión
CROATIA
Vanja Sremac, Terminal 3
CZECH REPUBLIC
Jitka Kotrlová, Frame Films
Radovan Síbrt, PINK
DENMARK
Mette Mikkelsen, New Tales
Marta Mleczek, Profile Pictures
EGYPT
Ahmed Amer, A. A. Films
FINLAND
Ilona Tolmunen, Made
FRANCE
Adrien Barrouillet, Furyo Films
Raphaël Gindre, RG FILMS
Katia Khazak, Aurora Films
Ulysse Payet, Elzévir Films
GERMANY
Fabian Altenried, Schuldenberg Films
Linus Günther, klinkerfilm production
Laura Kloeckner, Seera Films
Marion Wagner, Hessen Film & Medien
GREECE
Mina Dreki, Marni Films
Dimitris Logiadis, Filmiki Productions
GREENLAND / SWEDEN
Inuk Jørgensen
HUNGARY
Patricia D'Intino, Good Kids
IRELAND
Claire Mc Cabe, Pipedream Productions
Tina O’Reilly, Front Room Films
ITALY
Lara Costa-Calzado, Kino Produzioni
Claudio Giapponesi, Kiné Società Cooperativa
LITHUANIA
Rūta Adelė Jekentaitė, Baltic Productions
LUXEMBOURG
Olivier Caudron, Film Fund Luxembourg
NETHERLANDS
Renko Douze, Een van de jongens
Edwin Goldman, Goldman Film
NIGERIA
Chioma Onyenwe, Raconteur Productions
NORWAY
Benedikte Danielsen, Norwegian Film Institute
Thorvald Nilsen, Indie Film Bergen
PHILIPPINES
Mary Liza Diño, Fire and Ice Media and Productions
POLAND
Marta Gmosińska, Lava Films
Krystyna Kantor, Shipsboy
PORTUGAL
Andreia Nunes, Wonder Maria Filmes
ROMANIA
Ioana Lascar, deFilm
SENEGAL
Angèle Diabang, Karoninka
SERBIA
Čarna Vučinić, Čarna Vučinić Entp
SOUTH AFRICA
Tiny Mungwe, STEPS and CTRL ALT Shift
SPAIN
Marian Férnandez Pascal, Garabi Films
Inés Massa Puigsubirà, Materia Cinema
SWEDEN
Erik Andersson, Läsk
Caroline Drab, BCD Film
Malin Hüber, HER Film
Eliza Jones, Grand Slam Film
SWITZERLAND
Thomas Reichlin, Alva Film Production
UK
Don Omope, Pictograph Media
UKRAINE
Olesia Lukyanenko, FILM.UA
Olha Matat, EVOS Film
USA / JAPAN
Alex Lo, Cinema Inutile
YEMEN / USA
Mariam Al-Dhubhani
Page published 5 March 2024. Updated 20 June 2024.
