The scholarship will cover the producer’s participation fee for the EAVE 2015 workshop.
The scholarship will be granted during the second session of Ex Oriente Film workshop, taking place October 22-28 2014 in Jihlava, by EAVE CEO Kristina Trapp. The directors of both organizations comment on the new partnership:
Bojan Schuch, Executive director of Institute of Documentary Film:
"IDF´s long term strategy and effort is to widen the training and networking opportunities for Central and Eastern European documentary filmmakers and deepen their skills and experience as much as possible. Therefore we are very happy for this partnership with EAVE, since it is hard to imagine more enriching experience for an emerging producer then to attend this prestigious programme and work with acclaimed professionals. We are convinced that this partnership will result in a significant contribution to the development of CEE documentary in general."
Kristina Trapp, EAVE’s CEO, welcomes the new partnership:
“At EAVE, we very much believe in bringing together documentary and fiction film producers. We are particularly proud to establish this partnership with IDF/Ex-Oriente, the leading programme for upcoming documentary producers from Eastern Europe. This new cooperation is the perfect continuation of EAVE’s long-standing commitment on working with professionals from the CEE region.”
EAVE is one of the leading training and development providers for producers in Europe, renowned for the EAVE Producers Workshop.
The EAVE 2015 Producers Workshop is aimed at producers, both fiction and documentary, who are 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 beyond, by building up a pan European professional network. EAVE welcomes applications from associated branches of the industry – e.g. commissioning, funding, legal and finance, festivals & markets, media administration. Each year, 50 participants are selected from most of the EU countries and beyond and partake in three one-week workshops.
Timeline: interviews with a pre-selection of candidates in October 2014; selection is announced in December 2014; in 2015 three workshops take place March 9-16 in Luxembourg; June in Macedonia; and October/November in Strasbourg.
For more information about the programme and application procedure, please visit: www.eave.org
About EX ORIENTE FILM:
EX ORIENTE FILM 2014 Organized by Institute of Documentary Film
Ex Oriente Film is an international training programme dedicated to the development and funding of creative documentary films in Central and Eastern Europe. The core of the Ex Oriente Film training is based on three week-long residential workshops held over the year. Each year we select up to 14 projects that receive assistance from a wide range of film experts, with each workshop focusing on a different segment of development. Our participants are given a tailored guidance in developing the subject, narrative and the visual style of their projects, making drafts of a financing and distribution strategy, and finding international partners. The course culminates in the pitching sessions of projects at the East European Forum co-production meeting, featuring the final presentation in front of Europe's and North America´s leading commissioning editors, distributors, buyers and film fund representatives.
At the time of its founding in 2003, Ex Oriente Film was the first training initiative focused on creative documentary film in the East European region. Over the ten years, the workshop has offered year-long support to over 140 documentary projects, providing the mentoring and contacts necessary to break through to the international market.
For more information, please visit: www.dokweb.net
