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Deadlines April bis Mai 2024
In unserer aktualisierten Get Trained-Broschüre finden Sie rund 80 Weiterbildungen, die mit Unterstützung von Creative Europe oder der Schweizer MEDIA-Ersatzmassnahmen in ganz Europa angeboten werden. Die Workshops bieten ganz nebenbei exzellente Möglichkeiten zur internationalen Vernetzung.
Schweizer Filmschaffende haben normalerweise zu allen in unserer Broschüre aufgelisteten Veranstaltungen Zugang. Personen mit zusätzlicher Nationalität eines EU- oder Creative Europe-Mitgliedslandes empfehlen wir, diese Nationalität bei der Anmeldung anzugeben. Sollten Sie wegen Ihrer Schweizer Nationalität abgelehnt werden, geben Sie uns bitte bescheid.
Zusammen mit dem Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK) bietet MEDIA Desk Suisse Schweizer Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern Unterstützungsbeiträge zu den Kosten an. Weitere Infos dazu hier.
Die nächsten Anmeldefristen:
Script Development
Cinekid Script Lab | Stichting Cinekid
Six-month script-training for children's film projects in all stages of development, offering tailor-made coaching, training, and answering to the specific needs of writers and their stories. Taking place in Amsterdam (NL) and Berlin (DE).
For: scriptwriters
Date & Location: October 2024 – April 2025, Amsterdam (NL), Berlin (DE) and online
Deadline: 26.05.2024
EUREKA SERIES | Series Mania Institute
Intensive ten-weeks, full-time training course for writers and producers of TV drama series from all over Europe, to develop collaborative writing skills by experiencing an international writer’s room environment. Taking place in Lille (FR).
For: writers, producers
Date & Location: 24.09.-06.12.2024, Lille (FR)
Deadline: 06.06.2024
European Showrunner Programme | ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln
Six-month advanced training and mentoring programme for experienced series writers from Europe and beyond to acquire and refine the skills needed for taking on the demanding role of a showrunner. In Cologne (DE) and online.
For: experienced series writers
Date & Location: June – November 2024, Cologne (DE) and online
Deadline: 14.04.2024
Project Development
ACE Producers Workshop | ACE Producers
Three workshops emphasising the key position and unique responsibilities of the producer throughout the whole process of making a film: development, financing, production, marketing, and distribution. Apply with a live action feature film project in development that is suitable for co-production and aimed at the international market.
For: experienced producers
Date & Location: October 2024 - April 2025, Leiden (NL), Warsaw (PL), tba
Deadline: 02.05.2024
The Audience Design Lab | International Screen Institute
Four-day workshop in Vienna (AT), introducing the methodology of audience design to get a greater understanding of how your film is aimed to get best results.
For: teams of writers, directors, producers
Date & Location: 25-28.06.2024, Vienna (AT)
Deadline: 10.05.2024
Production, Post-Production
MIDPOINT Editing Room | Midpoint Institute
A pool of tutors examines the rough cut of feature films and analyse it together with the film team within an intensive 3-hour online consultation. Selected projects from the consultations can participate also in the 5-10 days Editing Room workshops.
For: teams of editors and directors with a feature film in rough-cut stage
Date and location: no specific date, online
ongoing call
Management, Legal, Sustainability
ACE Series Special | ACE Producers
Hands-on workshop (five days) for experienced producers who want to integrate a series division into their companies and/ or deepen their knowledge of developing and producing TV drama series for an international audience.
For: experienced producers
Date & Location: 04.-09.11.2024, Madrid (ES)
Deadline: 04.06.2024
Atelier Ludwigsburg Paris | Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg / La Fémis
One-year full-time training programme for emerging European film producers and distributors focusing on all aspects of feature film production. Participants must not be older than 30 years.
For: producers, distributors
Date & Location: October 2024 – August 2025, Ludwigsburg, Paris, Cannes, London
Deadline: 31.05.2024
Business and Legal Affairs | International Screen Institute
Training on the legal aspects and contracts involved in film/ TV, from having the idea to selling to a streamer.
For: sales, distribution executives, producers, lawyers
Date & Location: 10-14 June 2024, Vienna (AT)
Deadline: 21.04.2024
Distribution & Marketing
CICAE Arthouse Cinema Training | CICAE
The programme gives participants a 360° perspective of running an arthouse cinema: innovative programming, audience development and marketing, data analysis, business planning, fundraising, technological developments, sustainability, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion.
For: film professionals interested in running an arthouse cinema
Date & Location: 19.-25.08.2024, Berlin (DE)
Deadline: 21.04.2024
For more trainings please check out FOCAL, the Swiss Foundation for professional training in cinema and audiovisual media.