The June 13th starts in Opatija, Croatia the second intensive week of this year European Producers Workshop. EPW is a year long programme focussed on three intensive weeks featuring professional development through working on the development of fiction and documentary projects.
With 130 applications coming from 39 different countries, 55 promising producers from 29 countries have finally been selected for the EAVE European Producers Workshop 2012. Out of the selected producers, 32 are bringing a project to EAVE (of which 4 documentaries). 6 of the countries are from the Balkans. Also, Cyprus takes part in this workshop. The project organized in partnership with the Croatian Audiovisual Centre and the assistance of the Croatian MEDIA Desk.
The workshop consists of individual meetings with the script consultants and other experts, and sessions on negotiations and property rights, sales agents and the international market, transmedia and digital platforms, packaging documentaries, and production case studies.
The selected participants from the Balkans for the EAVE European Producers Workshop 2012 are:
Slovenia – Vlado Bulajic, Mono o
EAVE, European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs, is one of the leading training and development providers for producers in Europe, renowned for its European Producers Workshop. It is aimed at producers, both fiction and documentary, already working in the film and television industries who wish to begin to operate on a European wide basis, by increasing their knowledge of producing and co-producing in Europe and by building up a pan European professional network. Each year fifty participants are selected from most of the EU countries and beyond and take part in three one-week long workshops.
Half the participants attend the course with projects and it is an excellent means of development through intense focus on the project with colleagues and experts throughout the year. Most participants attending with a project, also bring their writer for the first two weeks which enables producer and writer to benefit together from one-to-one sessions with script experts.
During the first two workshops, in March 12 – 19 (Luxembourg) and June 13 – 20 (Croatia), participants work within groups led by experienced producers and with several experts on script analysis, development and production financing, legal aspects of co-production, marketing, pitching, packaging and more. In the third week in November 5 – 12 (The Netherlands), 40 – 50 Decision Makers (commissioning editors, national and regional media funds, sales agents, etc.) join the participants to discuss the projects, companies and careers of the participants. Furthermore, EAVE participants and members benefit from the partnerships with the leading European film festivals and markets where EAVE facilitates graduate participation.