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Training Guide

Cannes Makers focuses on every step of the international sales process.

This latest initiative by the Marché du Film invites participants to discover the different professions within the global film market that help bring a film from script to screen, while also addressing the issues impacting the industry today, such as diversity, inclusion, representation, and sustainability.

Through this new mentoring program, our aim is to shape the new generation of film industry leaders by fostering collaboration across borders, connecting our participants with key industry experts and nurturing their drive to thrive!

Cartoon is an international non-profit association based in Brussels. Cartoon's main mission is to support the animation industry by organising several types of events dedicated to animation professionals throughout the year.

The Sarajevo Film Festival, initiated in 1995 during the Siege of Sarajevo, has grown into a trailblazing film festival with a special focus on Southeast Europe. The CineLink Industry Days, festival's buisness platform, aims to increase the business, professional, and creative capacities of local and regional film and TV professionals on a continuous basis.

CPH:LAB is CPH:DOX’s talent development programme that encourages creative risk-taking, facilitates collaboration across borders and business sectors, and supports visionaries to push the existing boundaries of documentary filmmaking.

Organized by Sarajevo Film Festival and Balkan Documentary Center, Docu Rough Cut Boutique is a platform dedicated to documentary projects in the advanced phase of the editing process.

A five-days immersive audience-focused workshop exploring 360º film marketing by gaining insight about the classic tools and the latest trends in Digital PR, social media management, digital marketing and Audience building.

PUENTES Europe - Latin America Co-Production Workshop is a project-based year-long training programme including two 5-day residential workshops and a market module at Ventana Sur.

An intensive four day workshop event for independent producers with a solid track record and international experience reinforcing their managerial and financial capacity to compete successfully in European and global markets and to run sustainable companies.

ESSENTIAL LEGAL FRAMEWORK (ELF) is a long-running training series featuring residential workshops, online courses (eTraining) and from 2022 on, compact online seminars. The training equips audiovisual professionals with crucial skills and competences with an emphasis on legal and business aspects. The training activities offer relevant topics, hands-on information, acclaimed experts and valuable networking, employing a variety of formats and methodologies.

Eureka Series is an intensive three-month training course for twelve emerging writers and producers of television drama series from all over Europe. Delivered in partnership with La Fémis, it is an initiative created by the Series Mania Institute to train professionals in the rapidly changing TV series industry, with a strong focus on European collaboration.

We focus on storytelling, content development and the creative challenges of immersive story worlds. The DEVELOPMENT LAB hosts participants and mentors from all over Europe and worldwide. Packed with intense expert sessions, masterclasses and workshops, you will find a safe space to learn, explore, experiment and collaborate – in a non-competitive, multi-disciplinary, creative environment, where you develop ideas, level up your storytelling skills, start new projects and make friends with the European XR family.

In our Prototyping Lab, we work across disciplines and industries, focusing on immersive narration, UX design, production processes and workflows, team skills, and rapid prototyping. Together we work on ideas for the medium and the markets of the future.

Our Residency will support up to 10 immersive projects in an advanced concept state with intense, individual coaching sessions from international mentors and inspiring workshops and masterclasses.

Since 2010, INA has organised the annual training programme FRAME in partnership with FIAT/IFTA (International Federation of Television Archives) and EBU Academy (European Broadcasting Union).

FRAME is co-funded by the Creative Europe – MEDIA programme of the European Union.

IDFAcademy is IDFA’s training program during the festival. Each year, it offers a group of 100 talented documentary filmmakers and producers the opportunity to gain up-to-date knowledge about the international documentary industry (financing, production, distribution, creative content).

As the business aspects of an audio-visual production company are dealt with in contracts, the business and legal sides are intertwined. Business and legal affairs can appear quite daunting, especially in the earlier stages of a career in film and TV. This programme has been designed to address this and will cover the legal framework that is required to handle all relevant aspects of a film or TV series. The course starts with the early stage development, to financing, to finally reaching your audience or, as the case may be, your customers like distributors, broadcasters or streaming services.

This online sustainability management course focuses on improving film and media business environments. It will provide you with the tools and techniques to run your business or large media project more sustainably. There is already excellent training for ecological movie and TV production; therefore, our multi-dimensional approach includes economical, ecological, cultural, and social perspectives.

Designed to encourage filmmakers to find and build early audience engagement for their project/s. Learning to develop an audience design strategy at the earlier stages of the filmmaking process will allow participants to have a greater understanding of how to engage that audience with the correct messaging for grassroots marketing across the various social platforms, find and build communities and look at alternative and education opportunities. Participants will leave this lab with a greater understanding of how to augment their film’s message, and how to build an impact campaign around their film.

MFI SCRIPT 2 FILM WORKSHOPS is an advanced training program for the effective script & project development of European & international FEATURE FILMS, SERIES PROJECTS & FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES.

Green Film Lab aims to train European film professionals on green practices in film production, how to apply a green protocol, and get a certification.

One lab for 4 European and 4 Asian animation producers, which takes place both fully online in October/November and onsite at the Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) in Singapore, in cooperation with ATF, SAAVA and CEE Animation Workshop. The lab will primarily be focused on animation for kids with different formats such as shorts, series and features. Participants have access to leading Asian and European animation key-players, VOD platform commissioning editors, private equity investors, and share best practices on how to maximise their IP rights in the two markets.

One lab for 4 European and 4 Asian distributors, taking place at FOCUS ASIA during the FEFF in Udine, where all participants share best practices of successful releases for European and Asian films on both markets.

Two labs for 5 European sales agents, organized in cooperation with European Film Promotion. One hybrid lab will take place online and onsite within the frame of FOCUS ASIA during the FEFF in Udine, Italy. Under the title "Get Ready for Asia", it will provide sales representatives a survival kit how to work with Asian buyers. The second lab will take place onsite at the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) in Busan, South Korea. During the two sessions, the participants discuss possible sales strategies in the Asian fragmented market and get unique access to a network of Asian buyers interested in European content.