EAVE European Producers Workshop

EAVE’s flagship programme has been running for over twenty years and has created a thriving network of over 1000 graduates.
It is a year long programme focused on three intensive weeks featuring professional development through working on the development of fiction and documentary projects. Each year some 50 producers from around 30 European countries work on script and project development, financing, financial planning and company development, legal issues of co-production, marketing, packaging and pitching. During the final week of the programme 40–50 ‘decision makers’ – leading television commissioning editors, sales agents, distributors, representatives of regional and national funds and senior producers – meet the participants to discuss their projects, companies and plans. Participants can attend with or without a project and writers are encouraged to attend the first two weeks. The Workshop is also open to other members of the industry, for example lawyers and people working with media agencies and sales companies.
The European Producers Workshop has created an extremely active and successful network which has enabled participants to form long term co-producing relationships. Films developed during the programme and those subsequently produced by EAVE graduates have won major prizes at all the world’s leading festivals.