EAUX VIVES PRODUCTIONS was founded in autumn 2008, and produces short films, features, and documentaries. This company produces films by directors who are open to others, and who have a lucid and/or out-of-theordinary view of today's world, the past, and the future. Also heading up the company's priorities are the defense of cultures and the selection of subjects questioning the different forms of (personal or political) involvement. The common thread in Eaux Vives films is a concern for tomorrow: future generations, culture, social issues, ecology... that is, the values connected to sustainable development. Eaux Vives seeks to promote the emergence of directors who come from other visual arts such as painting, photography, or video, thus creating a bridge between different forms of artistic expression.

EAVE is a professional organisation providing an intensive and innovative professional training programme which develops the skills of already well-established European film, television and documentary producers and related professionals. The aim of the programme is to renew and improve production and co-production methods and to encourage co-operation. EAVE provides long and short seminars - the workshops and the forums - as well as continuous services on-line to European producers and professionals.

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.

The EAVE Film Finance Forum is an intensive four day workshop on European film finance. It provides an exploration and update of the latest financial developments and funding sources in Europe. It includes sessions on public and private finance, co-production, tax incentives, the sales and distribution market, banking services and new industry trends. Since most films produced in Europe are made with low to medium budgets, the Finance Forum focuses on its participants’ real financial situation and provides them with solutions adapted to their individual needs and projects. The Film Finance Forum takes the form of an inclusive round table with presentations on various up-to-date topics followed by open discussion with the participants and leading industry experts as well as individual meetings to discuss particular projects and companies. The Forum is targeted towards producers but also other industry professionals, for example people from sales agents and media agencies, television companies, lawyers and financial consultants. Since 2010 the Forum is also open to international participants through a number of scholarship programmes.

The EAVE Film Marketing Workshop offers a four day intensive programme exploring film marketing throughout the process of development, production, festival screening, exhibition and distribution. It emphasizes a ‘hands-on’ and practical approach using current films and the latest marketing techniques. It is designed to assist participants on how to position their films with a primary focus on the most cost-effective ways to market their projects and includes: the online sales and distribution environment, marketing to financiers, approaching buyers, completing presales and sales agreements, mastering legal issues, budgeting marketing items, planning cost-effectively using press and public relations, creating visual design (sales sheets, brochures, posters) working with trailers and showreel editors, the needs of sales agents and distributors, targeting international markets and festivals. Much of the programme takes the form of a round table during which top level industry experts make presentations and lead discussion. All participants are encouraged to take a full part throughout the workshop including working on marketing plans for an unreleased feature. During the one-to-one sessions participants present their projects and receive expert feedback and advice.

The Interchange programme was created with the goal of building cooperation between film professionals from Europe and the Arab world through professional training centred on the in-depth development of a number of feature-length fiction film projects every year. It is open to 10 teams of writer/director & producer – usually about half of the participants are Arab and half are European –, as well as to 3 Arab film professionals interested in story editing training.

Puentes was launched in 2009 with a first workshop in Buenos Aires, and continued in 2010 with one workshop in Buenos Aires during BAFICI (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) and the second one during the Festival Internacional de Gijón, Spain. In 2013, Puentes features two workshops again: The first will be in Locarno in August and the second one in Montevideo in November/December. Puentes will bring together five producers with feature projects from Latin America and five from Europe. During the two workshops they will work together with leading experts from both continents on script development, co-production between Latin America and Europe, financing in the two regions, legal aspects of co-production, marketing, pitching and promotion, and will meet with decision makers during both sessions. EAVE Puentes Europe/Latin America Producers Workshop is programme for fictional feature film.

EAVE Ties That Bind will bring together 10 film producers from Asian and European countries. Each producer will be selected together with a feature film project in development and will work with leading industry experts from both continents during the two workshops. Amongst a range of issues, sessions will focus on script development, co-production between Asia and Europe, financing in the two regions, marketing and promotion, and the legal aspects of co-production. The workshop participants will work together as a group, as well as through individual consultation, and will have the unusual opportunity to get to know each other very well with the object of forming long term creative and business partnerships and networks. The programme will culminate in Busan in October 2013 with meetings between the participants and leading Asian and European funders and sales agents during the Asian Project Market.

The EBS International Documentary Festival (EIDF) is the only documentary event in South Korea that is active through festival screenings as well as non-fiction broadcasting. As Asia’s prestigious documentary festival, EIDF has extended interest to a variety of countries from around the world since 2004. Along with TV showcase of outstanding non-fiction films on EBS TV channel, EIDF organizes other special events, such as public screenings, forums, director’s classes and exhibitions during festival.

ECAL - University of Art and Design Lausanne offers a variety of specializations in film and media: visual communications, new media, film, photography, etc.

Founded in 1948 and known by its current name since 1997, the ECAV offers various courses articulated within and around two distinct cycles: the first cycle leading to professional certification as an Artistic Designer , and a preparatory program created in 2005, leading to a second cycle composed of a Haute Ecole d¹Art (HEA) bachelor-level degree course as well as a Master-level degree course in Fine arts.

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ECLA Aquitane was established in 1999 with the aim to facilitate participation in co-productions by local producers, support, encourage, promote and market film in the country or region by encouraging film-makers to produce in the geographical area and to work with regional film commissions and other similar organisations.

Éclipse Film Ltd. was founded by Julianna Ugrin, producer, in October 2011. The main profile of the company is documentary film production, however it participates in fiction productions too. Since it’s existance Julianna Ugrin works together with directors as Tamás Almási, Ágnes Sós, Szabolcs Pálfi and Csaba Szekeres. Julianna Ugrin participated at EURODOC in 2009 and Dragon Forum in 2010. She worked in Flora Film International than in Havas Films as producer and has experience in the documentary film production. Before founding her own company, Éclipse Film, in 2011 she worked with Campfilm too.

The Festival invites the participation of documentaries, shorts and features encouraging nature conservation issues and issues related with the natural, the human and the built environment, as well as social, political and globalization issues. Only films of more than 50 min duration enter the competition section. There is one award of €10.000 for the best film.

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Established in 1973, ESEC is a professional school in the fields of film and audiovisual techniques, and the use of multimedia applied to audiovisual works. Through its programs, ESEC prepares its candidates for careers in: - directing for film & video, - film & video production, - video editing & digital special effects for film & video.

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The Festival aims at exalting and promoting films and environmental productions dealing with subjects such as man-environment problems, environmental protection, deforestation, new technologies, radioactive experiments in various areas of the world, sustainable development, how the concept of environment in rich countries differs from that belonging to poor countries, but also mere descriptions of meaningful environmental areas, and all the productions concerning any aspect of environment and nature.

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Started in 1947, the EIFF is one of the true homes of innovative and exciting cinema. For over half-a-century, the Festival has presented some of cinema's most important and exciting moments and played host to the world's greatest filmmakers. The longest continually running film festival in the world, it has come a long way from its beginnings as a documentary-based festival established in the wake of World War II. During the 1960s, EIFF introduced the Retrospective. In the 70s and 80s, the Festival consolidated its reputation as a pioneering force for UK audiences, screening films from the New German Cinema, the new wave of American Independents, homages to the masters of Japanese Cinema, pioneering studies of black and feminist filmmakers. The festival programme includes British and international feature, documentary, short, animated and experimental films, retrospectives and other special events.