The great finale of the EAVE 2012 European Producers Workshop in Amsterdam
Press release
The EAVE 2012 European Producers Workshop comes to a close with its third and last workshop in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (November 5-12), organized in partnership with Binger Filmlab and CTM LEV Pictures.
During this final workshop, the 53 participants from 30 countries will have the opportunity to meet 50 high-profile European film industry professionals in pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings in order to pitch the 31 projects that have been developed during this year's EAVE training cycle.
In addition to the 31 projects developed during the year at EAVE, 6 projects from the Netherlands will be presented in Amsterdam to the EAVE decision makers in one-to-one meetings and in a public pitch. These projects were selected by Binger Filmlab.
This year, 50 key industry professionals have confirmed their attendance as decision makers: Salma Abdalla / Autlook Filmsales (AT), Madleine Avramoussis / ARTE G.E.I.E (FR), Jean-Baptiste Babin / Back Up Films (FR), Robert Balinski /Polish Film Insitute (PL), Philippe Bober / Coproduction Office (FR), Doreen Boonekamp / Netherlands Film Fund (NL), Frédéric Corvez / Urban Distribution International (FR), Daniel Dale / Independent Film Company (UK), Gua Daleiden / Film Fund Luxembourg (LU), Ellis Driessen / Fortissimo (NL), Elin Erichsen / Norwegian Film Institute (NO), Andrea Ernst / WDR (DE), Noemi Ferrer Schwenk / Danish Film Institute (DK), Leslie Finlay / Creative Scotland (UK), Hermann Florin / Florin Film- und Fernsehproduktion (DE), Sergio Garcia de Leaniz / TVE (ES), Gabor Greiner / Films Boutique (DE), Sophie Haguet / Ile de France (FR), Alice Hamlett / TVF International (UK), Chris Howard / Yellow Affair (SE), Stephanie Hugé / Wallimage (BE), Petri Kemppinen / Finnish Film Foundation (FI), Danny Krausz / DOR FILM (AT), Pierre-Alexandre Labelle / Under The Milky Way (FR), Luca Macciocca / RAI Cinema (IT), Brigitta Manthey / Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (DE), Anthony Muir / Film i Väst (SE), Peter Nademann / ZDF Enterprises / Network Movie (DE), Agneta Perman / Sveriges Television (SE), Keith Potter / Film Agency for Wales (UK), Piotr Reisch /SPI International Polska (PL), Lucas Schmidt / ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel (DE), Gerlinde Seitner / Vienna Film Fund (AT), Patrick Sobelman / Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo (FR), Georg Steinert / ARTE (FR), Agathe Valentin / Les Films du Losange (FR), Marie Pierre Valle / Wild Bunch (Sales) (FR), Daniel Waser / Zürcher Filmstiftung (CH), Sasha Wieser / EastWest Filmdistribution (AT) and Gamila Ylstra / Binger Filmlab (NL).
We will also present some of EAVE's partners from the leading co-production markets: Special guests Miriam Allen / Galway Film Fleadh (IE), Nadia Dresti / Open Doors (CH), Vanja Kaludhercic / Arc 1950 Coproduction Village (FR), Anna Katchko / Moscow Business Square / Spotlight: New Kazakh Cinema (RU/KZ), Fabienne Morris / FIDlab (FR), Riina Sildos / Baltic Event (EE), Mira Staleva / Sofia Meetings (BG), Marit van den Elshout and Jacobine van der Vloed / CineMart (NL), and Signe Zeilich-Jensen / Holland Film Meeting (NL) will present themselves and their events to the participants and be available for one-to-one meetings.
In addition, the schedule offers plenary sessions, group work and individual meetings with EAVE experts and guest experts: Linda Beath (IT) - Strategic Planning for Production Companies, Laurence Kaye (UK) - Music Rights, Sibylle Kurz (DE) - Pitching, Nikolaj Nikitin (DE) - Festival strategies and Jani Thiltges (LU) - Career Development.
EAVE is delighted to give local film-professionals an opportunity to get a taste of EAVE. They are welcome to attend the plenary sessions.
A special "EAVE@Amsterdam" will be organized, with sessions tailored to the requirements of the local industry. EAVE Head of Studies Jani Thiltges and Binger Filmlab CEO Gamila Ylstra will open the day. EAVE Group Leaders Diana Elbaum (Entre chien et loup, Belgium) and Roshanak Behesht Nedjad (Flying Moon Filmproduktion, Germany) will talk about “What Kind of Producer Are You?”, EAVE Expert Sibylle Kurz will give a pitching workshop and Hanneke Niens (KeyFilm, The Netherlands) will give a co-production case study of “Silent City”.
EAVE is grateful for the support for the Workshop 3 2012 from: Binger Filmlab, CTM LEV Pictures, Netherlands Film Fund, Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and EYE Film Insitute.
The first two workshops of 2012 took place in Luxembourg (March 12-19) and Opatija in Croatia (June 13-20).
For more information, please contact satu@eave.org
Page published 29 October 2012. Updated 14 November 2012.
