TRAINING COURSES

Each year the MEDIA sub-programme supports around 60 international training programmes allowing audiovisual professionals from across the world to meet, share their experiences and learn both from experts in their field and each other.

Altogether the training sessions took place in 76 different cities in 22 European countries. Two UK-based training providers received over €600,000 in 2019 and 2020 to impart their expertise to international participants.

In total the courses supported welcomed over 2,000 participants annually, 70% of which were from EU Member States. This included around 100 UK audiovisual professionals who take part in many of the courses on offer across Europe each year, from year-long programmes designed for producers to week long training courses for European cinemas.

COMPANY PROJECT

Independent Cinema Office

Developing Your Film Festival The National Film and Television School (NFTS) Inside Pictures 2019 GRANT AMOUNT € 2020 GRANT AMOUNT € 90,000 217,735

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90,000 217,735

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EAVE’s Producer’s Workshop is a year long programme focused on three intensive weeks featuring professional development through working on the development of fiction, documentary and TV series projects. The UK-based participants in 2019 and 2020 were Geoff Arbourne (Inside Out Films), Elhum Shakerifar (Hakawati), Nora Ostler Spiteri (Triongl) and Victoria Thomas (The Polka Dot Factory).

“Participating in EAVE in 2018 was nothing short of a life-saver - my work has always looked to build bridges between spaces of understanding, and to have a safe space to ponder that impulse alongside a network of producers from across Europe and beyond was an incredible experience. Being surrounded by peers from other countries, backgrounds and with vastly different networks and experiences is a gift of perspective. Over the course of nine months, we were able to look and think deeply at the stories we choose to tell, how we tell those stories, what we enable and why. To think about our industries and how its priorities shape our own notions of what matters. To build from this basis is powerful. If these volatile times have underlined anything, it is the power of community and collaboration. I was very grateful for everything EAVE has taught and brought me, and to have been part of the 2019 cohort.”

Elhum Shakerifar, Producer