ACE Producers has selected 14 emerging producers for the first edition of
ACE Training Days Norway, a workshop aimed at strengthening upcoming producers from Norway. Focusing on “Developing and Marketing Your Projects in an International Context”, it gives the participants the opportunity to learn from established producers and film professionals and to further develop their network.
The ACE Training Days Norway is set up in collaboration with The Norwegian Film Institute, Filmkraft Rogaland, Mediefondet Zefyr (and with support from Stavanger commune, Rogaland Fylkeskommune and The Norwegian Producers Association Virke Produsentforeningen).

The 2-day interactive workshop (6-8 October) will include plenary sessions as well as group meetings provided with the help of ACE consultants and producers who have notably strong track-records in international development, co-production and financing, and who will share their knowledge and international expertise.

The Training Days Norway is connected to the ACE 31 Content Development Workshop (4 – 9 Oct, Stavanger), which is a workshop within the ACE Annual Programme organised for the selected 18 experienced producers from Europe and beyond.

In the past, ACE Producers already organised ACE Training Days workshops in the Czech Republic, Finland and the Netherlands.

SELECTED PRODUCERS FOR ACE TRAINING DAYS NORWAY:

Siw Angell-Olsen, Tallfilm
Ingvil Berger, Motlys
Jarle Bjørknes, Incitus AS
Ingvild Evjemo, 4 1/2
Andreas Fløisand, Hummelfilm
Hege Hauff Hvattum, Monster Scripted
Lina Helvik, Freelance
Oda Kruse, Mer Film
Maria Lavelle, NOET AS
Petter Onstad Løkke, Maipo
Rebekka Rognøy, Ferdi Film
Lotte Sandbu, Maipo
Nicholas Sando, Filmbin
Anita Vedå, Smau media

Together with the ACE Mentoring Programme, the ACE Training Days Norway is part of ACE Springboard, a combination of programmes focusing on emerging independent producers to strengthen careers at an early stage. ACE Springboard provides participants with the tools needed to be adaptable and innovative in an ever-changing film industry – for a successful new generation of independent producers!

Please find more information here:
https://ace-producers.com/springboard

For more information please contact:
maegenefabias@ace-producers.com

ACE Producers and Independent Film Foundation are pleased to announce the call for applications for the Training Days Poland, which has been set up thanks to the support of the Polish Film Institute.

The Training Days Poland is a tailor-made 1,5-day programme especially designed for emerging producers, who are looking to expand their network and learn more about the international context of the audiovisual industry. The workshop welcomes producers working in fiction, animation and documentary, and strives to make the industry inclusive and diverse.

For this workshop a total of 12 producers (6 Polish and 6 from neighbouring Central and Eastern European countries) will be selected to join the workshop taking place in Warsaw*. As ACE aims to encourage international collaboration, the call is open to emerging producers from Poland, as well as Albania, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Montenegro, North-Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.

Training Days Poland, organised with to the support of the Polish Film Institute, will be themed around “The Essentials of International Co-Production”. The interactive workshop will include plenary sessions and case studies, as well as group meetings provided with the help of ACE consultants and producers who have notably strong track-records in international financing, co-production, sales and distribution, and who will share their knowledge and international expertise.

The Training Days Poland is connected to the ACE 31 Financing Strategies Workshop (15 – 20 Nov, Warsaw), which is a workshop within the ACE Annual Programme organised for the selected 18 experienced independent producers from Europe and beyond, and attended by a large group of international experts.

WORKSHOP DATES
17 – 18 November 2021
(arrival before 13:30 on Wednesday 17 November and departure Friday 19 November 2021)

LOCATION
Warsaw, Poland*

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS

• Emerging producers with an interest in international co-production;
• Producers will best benefit from the workshop when already working on a feature-length project in development;
• Producers would need to be committed to attend the entire workshop;
• Producers are required to have sufficient level of understanding of the English language, as the entire workshop will be presented in English.

PARTICIPATION DETAILS

APPLICATION DEADLINE
30 September 2021

HOW TO APPLY
Please fill in the submission form here. The obligatory attachments to the submission form are:

1. – A motivational letter (of max. 1 page);
   – Producer’s biography, filmography and company profile;
   – List of current projects in development (with information and status on each project);
   – ALL ABOVE in English and merged into one PDF.

Strengthening independent producers, ACE Producers uses the power of the ACE Network’s collective knowledge to tackle the challenges and seize the opportunities in an everchanging industry. ACE Producers enables profound collaborations through honest dialogue in the safe trusted space of the ACE Network and fosters valuable exchange of high-level knowledge about the independent audio-visual industry in Europe and beyond. ACE Producers provides top quality executive education in European creative producing and entrepreneurialism.

Independent Film Foundation from Warsaw, Poland promotes creativity and the production of films of high artistic value, and creates opportunities for artistic and professional development of filmmakers, i.e. organising the activities of the Polish Film Academy and running the European master scriptwriting programme ScripTeast.

The Polish Film Institute has been the main public funding body, supporting development of Polish film productions since 2005. It has also created a variety of incentives and financing schemes geared towards supporting international co-productions.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact: Yamie van Wijnbergen at Yamievanwijnbergen@ace-producers.com  or Violetta Kaminska at violetta@nff.org.pl

*ACE will be paying close attention to the ever-changing international situation and will make any adaptations to the workshop necessary to ensure the safety of participants and guests.

Melanie Andernach – MADE IN GERMANY – Germany
“Love Ghosts” directed by Benjamin Heisenberg

Peter Badač – BFILM – Czech Republic/Slovakia
“Backwoods” directed by Evženie Brabcová

Nicky Bentham – Neon Films – United Kingdom      
“Brides” directed by Nadia Fall

Inese Boka-Grūbe- Mistrus Media – Latvia  
“The Bomber” directed by Pauls Kesteris

Fran Borgia – Akanga Film Asia – Singapore 
“If I Had Two Lives” directed by Ash Mayfair

Claire Charles-Gervais – In Vivo Films – France      
“Death Has No Master” directed by Jorge Thielen Armand

Nina Frese – Freelance – Germany   
“Night Sweats” directed by Maria Solrun

Miia Haavisto – Tekele Productions – Finland
“Get Hartmann” directed by Antti Heikki Pesonen

Tomas Hruby – nutprodukce – Czech Republic
“Forest” directed by Petr Kazda and Tomas Weinreb

Lana Matić – Propeler Film – Croatia
“Before the Summer” directed by Danis Tanović

Annabella Nezri – Kwassa Films – Belgium
“Transition” directed by Zoé Wittock

Hany Ouichou – Coop Video de Montréal – Canada
“Buy Your Way to Heaven” directed by Mathieu Denis

Luisa Romeo – Frida Films – Spain   
“Pinkala” directed by Juanjo Gimenez

David B. Sørensen – Apparatur – Denmark
“Replica” directed by Jacob Thomas Pilgaard

Marica Stocchi – Rosamont – Italy
“A Woman’s Diary” directed by Daniele Vicari

Janine Teerling – AMP Filmworks – Cyprus  
“The Well” directed by Marios Piperides

Nikolina Vučetić Zečević- Biberche Production – Serbia    
“Rattlesnakes” directed by Nikola Ljuca

Joram Willink – BIND – The Netherlands      
“Stranded Assets” directed by TBD

ACE Producers has selected 18 experienced independent producers to join the ACE Network after completing the 31st edition of its Annual Programme. The selected producers from 17 different territories will attend three workshops throughout 2021 and 2022 moving the projects with which they applied forward.

The selection committee consisted of members of the ACE board, ACE consultants, president Antoine Simkine and director Jacobine van der Vloed.

“We are excited about the new group of producers joining the ACE Network. With each of these experienced independent producers and their individual expertise and know-how, the ACE Network will grow stronger, providing a solid basis for successful European collaborations”, Jacobine van der Vloed commented.

Four events make up the core of the training. The first workshop, dedicated to content development, will take place in Stavanger, Norway in early October and will include group sessions and individual meetings, analysing the concepts, dramaturgy, and target audiences of producers’ projects. The workshop is supported by The Norwegian Film Institute, Filmkraft Rogaland, Mediefondet Zefyr, Stavanger Municipality, Rogaland County Municipality and The Norwegian Producers Association (Virke Produsentforeningen).

In November, the second workshop, which offers the producers advice on possible financing strategies for their projects, will take place in Warsaw, Poland, with the support of the Polish Film Institute and in collaboration with Independent Film Foundation. The week-long workshop will be made up of interactive sessions exploring international financing opportunities and strategies through detailed analysis of the producers’ finance plans, with input provided by high-grade professionals from across the industry. The sessions offer a uniquely open exchange of experience and ideas which sheds light on the evolution of co-production practices, of public and private funding schemes, and of the global marketplace in the digital age.

The third workshop will look at the producers’ business strategies, providing them with models of sustainable company management and ways to build businesses that have real value. Group sessions and panel discussions guide the producers through keener applications of marketing techniques and diversified commercial activities. The Business Prospects Workshop will take place in Amsterdam with the kind support of the Netherlands Film Fund and is immediately followed by the ACE Annual Reunion, were the new producers will be officially welcomed into the ACE Network.

The Annual Reunion 2022 will be held in Gdansk, Poland with the support of the Polish Film Institute.

ACE Producers is supported by Creative Europe, the Netherlands Film Fund, Screen Scotland, Film Center Serbia, Polish Film Institute, Procirep, German Films, Téléfilm Canada, Screen Ireland, Screen Skills Ireland, Focal, Rai Cinema and APA – Audiovisual Producers Association.

ACE Producers is pleased to announce the call for applications for the Training Days Norway, which has been set up in collaboration with The Norwegian Film Institute, Filmkraft Rogaland, Mediefondet Zefyr (and with support from Stavanger commune, Rogaland Fylkeskommune and The Norwegian Producers Association Virke Produsentforeningen).

Strengthening independent producers, ACE Producers uses the power of the ACE Network’s collective knowledge to tackle the challenges and seize the opportunities in an everchanging industry.

The Training Days Norway is a tailor-made 1,5-day programme especially designed for emerging producers at relatively early stages in their careers, who are looking to expand their network and learn more about the international context of the audiovisual industry.
The workshop welcomes producers working in fiction, animation and documentary, and strives to make the industry inclusive and diverse.

For this workshop approx. 12 Norwegian producers will be selected to join the workshop taking place in Stavanger, Norway*.

Scheduled over two days, the Training Days Norway will be themed around “Developing and Marketing Your Projects in an International Context“. The interactive workshop will include plenary sessions as well as group meetings provided with the help of ACE consultants and producers who have notably strong track-records in international development, co-production and financing, and who will share their knowledge and international expertise.

As part of the workshop, ACE also offers 2 Norwegian producers with a feature-length project in development the opportunity to attend an extra half day of sessions, as well as an 1,5 hour one-on-one meeting with script consultant Emmanuel Oberg (Screenplay Unlimited). To be eligible for this additional offer, the producer would need to have an English written treatment and/or script.

The Training Days Norway is connected to the ACE 31 Content Development Workshop (4 – 9 Oct, Stavanger), which is a workshop within the ACE Annual Programme organised for the selected 18 experienced producers from Europe and beyond.

WORKSHOP DATES
6 – 8 October 2021

LOCATION
Stavanger, Norway*

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS

• Emerging producers who are at a relatively early stage in their careers, with an interest in international co-production;
• Producers will best benefit from the workshop when already working on a feature-length project in development;
• Producers would need to be committed to attend the entire workshop;
• For producers interested to join the Emmanuel Oberg sessions, we ask that they have a treatment and/or script (in English) for a feature-length fiction project (feature or animation).

PARTICIPATION DETAILS

APPLICATION DEADLINE
15 September 2021

HOW TO APPLY
Send the following documents (in English and combined into one PDF) to
info@ace-producers.com:

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact Maegene Fabias at maegenefabias@ace-producers.com

*ACE will be paying close attention to the ever-changing international situation and will make any adaptations to the workshop necessary to ensure the safety of participants and guests.

Contemporary World Cinema

COMPARTMENT NO.6 by Juho Kuosmanen
Produced by Jussi Rantamäki (ACE Finland)
Co-produced by Jamila Wenske (ACE Germany)

COSTA BRAVA by Mounia Akl
Co-produced by Sophie Erbs (ACE France)

THE DAUGHTER by Manuel Martín Cuenca
Produced by Manuel Martin Cuenca (ACE Spain)

MURINA by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Produced by Zdenka Gold (ACE Croatia)
Co-produced by Miha Cernec (ACE Slovenia)

NOBODY HAS TO KNOW by Bouli Lanners
Produced by Jacques-Henri Bronckart (ACE Belgium)

VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH by Edwin
Co-produced by Viola Fügen (ACE Germany)

WHETHER THE WEATHER IS FINE by Carlo Francisco Manatad
Produced by Vincent Wang (ACE France)

Discovery

ANATOLIAN LEOPARD by Emre Kayış
Co-produced by Maria Blicharska (ACE France/Poland)

WILDHOOD by Bretten Hannam
Executive Producer – Damon D’Oliveira (ACE Canada)

Gala Presentations

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD by Joachim Trier
Co-produced by Eva Jakobsen (ACE Denmark)
Executive producer Dyveke Graver (ACE Norway)

THE SURVIVOR by Barry Levinson
Co-produced by Ildiko Kemeny (ACE Hungary)

BERGMAN ISLAND by Mia Hansen-Løve
Produced by Erik Hemmendorff (ACE Sweden)

Platform

DRUNKEN BIRDS by Ivan Grbovic
Produced by Luc Déry (ACE Canada)

EARWIG by Lucile Hadžihalilović
Produced by Jean de Fôret (ACE France)
Co-produced by Jean-Yves Roubin (ACE Belgium)

SILENT LAND by Aga Woszczyńska
Co-produced by Giovanni Pompili (ACE Italy)

Midnight Madness

TITANE by Julia Ducournau
Produced by Jean-Christophe Reymond (ACE France)
Co-produced by Jean-Yves Roubin (ACE Belgium)

Special Presentations

AHED’S KNEE by Nadav Lapid
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany) and Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS by Mahamat-Saleh
Produced by Diana Elbaum (ACE Belgium)

WOLF by Nathalie Biancheri
Produced by Jessie Fisk (ACE Ireland)

CHARLOTTE by Eric Warin and Tahir Rana
Produced by Jérôme Dopffer (ACE France)

FRANCE by Bruno Dumont
Produced by Dorothe Beinemeier (ACE Germany)
Co-produced by Fabrizio Mosca (ACE Italy) and Andrea Paris (ACE Italy)

INEXORABLE by Fabrice du Welz
Produced by Jean-Yves Roubin (ACE Belgium)

THE STORY OF MY WIFE by Ildikó Enyedi
Produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany) and Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

Special Events

SPENCER by Pablo Larraín
Produced by Jonas Dornbach & Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

MEMORIA by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Co-produced by Viola Fügen (ACE Germany)

TIFF Docs

FLEE by Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen

Competition

REFLECTION by Valentyn Vasyanovych
Produced by Vladimir Yatsenko (ACE Ukraine)

CAPTAIN VOLKONOGOV ESCAPED by Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov
Co-produced by Katrin Kissa (ACE Estonia)

LEAVE NO TRACES by Jan P. Matuszynski
Produced by Patrice Nezan (ACE France)

FREAKS OUT by Gabriele Mainetti
Co-produced by Jean-Yves Roubin (ACE Belgium)
Executive Produced by Tommaso Arrighi (ACE Italy)

SPENCER by Pablo Larraín
Produced by Jonas Dornbach & Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

Out of Competition

ARIAFERMA by Leonardo Di Constanzo
Produced by Carlo Cresto-Dina (ACE Italy)

Horizons

ATLANTIDE by Yuri Ancarani
Produced by Marco Alessi (ACE Italy)

IL PARADISO DEL PAVONE by Laura Bispuri
Co-produced by Viola Fügen (ACE Germany)

LA RAGAZZA HA VOLATO by Wilma Labate
Co-produced by Miha Černec (ACE Slovenia)

RHINO by Oleg Sentsov
Co-produced by Dariusz Jablonski (ACE Poland)

Horizons extra

MA NUIT by Antoinette Boulat
Produced by Alain Benguigui (ACE France)

COSTA BRAVA by Mounia Akl
Produced by Sophie Erbs (ACE France)

Key European Film Organisations Join Forces
in New Anti-Racism Task Force

 

In the Summer of 2020, a group of European film industry professionals gathered to form ARTEF, the Anti-Racism Taskforce for European Film. Engaging over thirty organisations, our first step was an awareness training programme lead by Dr Emilia Roig, trainer, author, and founder of the Centre for Intersectional Justice in Berlin. The workshop encounters lasted between November 2020 and May 2021 online with an average of forty participants from all over Europe in each session.

With a broad and intersectional approach, ARTEF’s main aim is to dismantle racist structures and combat all forms of racism in the European film industry. Our goal is to become a task force for change: by raising awareness, by offering education and insights, by suggesting revisions to regulations and practices, as well as to weather opposition from the industry — especially from those who habitually benefit from institutionalised racism.

After its initial year, ARTEF will continue organising training programmes for European film professionals
who are keen on tackling institutionalised racism and willing to do the personal work needed to help dismantling existing structures, and help building new, inclusive ones in the decades to come. Anyone who has been or is affected by racism in the European film industry is invited to come forward and engage with ARTEF to help us build a meaningful task force together.|

Thus far, we have been laying the ground for future actions and we will be reaching out to all European
film institutions, including film festivals, film commissioning, organisations and filmmaking collectives,
asking them to join ARTEF, and commit to training, ring fencing of resources, and to turn their awareness into actions.

We invite filmmakers in every European country to write to their institutions, collectives, unions, and organisations to request they join and support ARTEF’s work, and to engage with us with ideas, suggestions and/or requests.

We are opening a line of communication via artef@artef.org.

LIST OF MEMBERS
Initiated by Matthijs Wouter Knol, the newly appointed Director of the European Film Academy,
ARTEF was also co-founded by its current Board of Directors: Helene Granqvist (producer Nordic
Film Factory and president WIFTI), Paula Alvarez Vaccaro (producer Pinball London and European
Producers Club vice president), and Marion Schmidt (co-director Documentary Association of
Europe).

Steering committee
Paula Alvarez Vaccaro
Véronique N. Doumbé
Helene Granqvist
Laurence Lascary
Regina Mosch
Marion Schmidt
Matthijs Wouter Knol

Funding partners
Bertha Foundation, British Film Institute, FOCAL, HessenFilm, MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-
Holstein, International Sámi Film Institute, Film Fund Luxemburg, Netherlands Film Fund, Norwegian
Film Institute, Swedish Film Institute and contributions from the participating organisations
ACE, EAVE, EWA, and WIFTI as well as production companies Magic Hour Films and Pinball London
and further donors.

The awareness trainings were attended by top-level representatives of the following organisations
ACE Producers
British Film Institute
Cinéastes non alignées
Collectif 50/50
Creative Diversity Network
DAE — Documentary Association of Europe
Doc Society
EAVE
European Film Academy
EFM — European Film Market
EFP — European Film Promotion
EWA — European Women’s Audiovisual Network
EPC — European Producers Club
FOCAL
International Sámi Film Institute
Magic Hour Films
MOIN Film Fund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein
Netherlands Film Fund
Norwegian Film Institute
Pinball London
Power to Transform
Programmers of Colour Collective (POC2)
ProQuote Film
Swedish Film Institute
Queer Media Society
WIFTI — Women in Film and Television International

as well as by key representatives of the supporting funds and companies

Press contact: Pascal Edelmann, European Film Academy
p.edelmann@europeanfilmacademy.org
ARTEF contact: artef@artef.org

COMPETITION

AHED’S KNEE by Nadav Lapid
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany) and Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

ANNETTE by Leos Carax
Co-produced by Fabian Gasmia (ACE Germany)

BENEDETTA by Paul Verhoeven
Co-produced by Laurette Schillings (ACE Netherlands) and Frans Van Gestel (ACE Netherlands)

BERGMAN ISLAND by Mia Hansen-Love
Produced by Erik Hemmendorff (ACE Sweden)

COMPARTMENT NO.6 by Juho Kuosmanen
Produced by Jussi Rantamäki (ACE Finland)
Co-produced by Jamila Wenske (ACE Germany)

FRANCE by Bruno Dumont
Produced by Dorothe Beinemeier (ACE Germany)
Co-produced by Fabrizio Mosca (ACE Italy) and Andrea Paris (ACE Italy)

LINGUI, THE SACRED BONDS by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Produced by Diana Elbaum (ACE Belgium)

MEMORIA by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Co-produced by Viola Fügen (ACE Germany)

PETROV’S FLU by Kirill Serebrennikov
Co-produced by Roman Paul (ACE Germany)

THE STORY OF MY WIFE by Ildikó Enyedi
Produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany) and Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

TITANE by Julia Ducournau
Produced by Jean-Christophe Reymond (ACE France)
Co-produced by Jean-Yves Roubin (ACE Belgium)

THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD by Joachim Trier
Co-produced by Eva Jakobsen (ACE Denmark)
Executive producer Dyveke Graver (ACE Norway)

Cannes Premiere

HOLD ME TIGHT by Mathieu Amalric
Produced by Yael Fogiel (ACE France)

EVOLUTION by Kornél Mundruczó
Produced by Viola Fügen (ACE Germany) and Viktoria Petranyi (ACE Hungary)

UN CERTAIN REGARD

GREAT FREEDOM by Sebastian Meise
Produced by Oliver Neumann (ACE Austria)

MONEYBOYS by C.B.Yi
Produced by Gabriele Kranzelbinder (ACE Austria)

NOCHE DE FUEGO by Tatiana Huezo
Produced by Nicolas Célis (ACE Mexico)
Co-produced by Viola Fügen (ACE Germany)

THE INNOCENTS by Eskil Vogt
Produced by Misha Jaari (ACE Finland)
Co-produced by Eva Jakobsen (ACE Denmark)

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT 2021 SELECTION

A CHIARA by Jonas Carpignano
Produced by Carole Scotta (ACE France)

LES MAGNÉTIQUES by Vincent Maël Cardona
Co-produced by Jan Krüger (ACE Germany)

MURINA by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Produced by Zdenka Gold (ACE Croatia)
Co-produced by Miha Cernec (ACE Slovenia)

THE SOUVENIR PART II by Joanna Hogg
Produced by Ed Guiney (ACE Ireland)

THE PARENTS’ ROOM by Diego Marcon
Produced by Jacqui Davies (ACE United Kingdom)

THE CANNES CRITICS’ WEEK 2021 SELECTION

Special Screenings

ANAÏS IN LOVE by Charline-Bourgeois-Tacquet
Produced by David Thion (ACE France) and Philippe Martin (ACE France)

SOFTIE by Samuel Theis
Produced by Caroline Bonmarchand (ACE France)

A TALE OF LOVE AND DESIRE by Leyla Bouzid
Produced by Bertrand Gore (ACE France)

In competition

FEATHERS by Omar El Zohairy
Produced by Koji Nelissen (ACE Netherlands)

THE GRAVEDIGGER’S WIFE by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
Produced by Misha Jaari (ACE Finland) and Thanassis Karathanos (ACE Germany)

OLGA by Elie Grappe
Co-produced by Tom Dercourt (ACE France)

SHORT FILM COMPETITION

BRUTALIA, DAYS OF LABOUR by Manolis Mavris
Produced by Valérie Bournonville (ACE France)

HONORARY PALM D’OR

MARX CAN WAIT by Marco Bellocchio
Produced by Simone Gattoni (ACE Italy)

CANNES CLASSICS: DOCUMENTARIES

THE STORMS OF JEREMY THOMAS by Mark Cousins
Produced by David P. Kelly (ACE United Kingdom)

ET J’AIME A LA FLEUR by André Bonzel
Produced by Yael Fogiel (ACE France)

ACE is pleased to open the call for applications for the 3rd ACE Series Special!

Thanks to VAF and CFAP for their valuable support, to our media partner Variety and Variety Intelligence Platform and also to the international series festival, Series Mania for the fruitful partnership!

With more and more demand for content, with a market that is changing daily and as producers look for new ways of working and diversifying their output, the ACE Series Special is more essential than ever.

The ACE Series Special is aimed at 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.

16-18 producers will be selected for the workshop, each with a series in development. Focusing primarily on the creative and financial aspects of TV series production, the ACE Series Special will also offer sessions on story development, marketing, audiences, international approaches, and business strategies. The workshop will give producers a chance to work on their projects through one-to-one meetings with experts and group sessions with their peers.

During the Series Special an environment is created where, as well as benefiting from consultants’ know-how and expertise, the participants learn from each other – explaining how they work in their own territories; how they set-up their legal and financing structures; how they run their businesses – and advise each other on good practices.

Previous consultants include, Davide Nardini (Amazon Italy), Noemi Ferrer (DR Sales), Ed Guiney (Element Pictures), Liz Kilgariff (Fire Bird Pictures), Tatiana Samopian (Fractal Volcano), Christian Vesper (Fremantle), Caroline Benjo (Haut et Court), Marc Lorber (Lionsgate), Philippe Kreuzer (Maze Pictures), Mario Gianani (Wildside).

WORKSHOP DATES
6th – 11st of December 2021

LOCATION
Brussels, Belgium, with sessions online before and after

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS
• To be an owner, partner or associate of an independent film/TV
production company;
• To be an ACE member or producer with a similar level of experience;
• To have a TV drama series in development that is at a relevant stage and suitable for co-production.

FEES
€2.500 (€2.250 for ACE Network Members).
The fee covers full board, accommodation and training during the workshops. Travel costs are not included.

APPLICATION DEADLINE
1st July 2021

HOW TO APPLY
To request an application form please email series@ace-producers.com.
ACE will send the application form only to clearly eligible candidates.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
ace-producers.com/series-special

ACE is pleased to support the European Producers Club‘s initiative to establish a Code of Fair Practices when working with the streamers for European independent producers.

The EPC has been working on this code for many months to provide this text as an answer from the European independent producers for minimum standards terms when working with the streamers. Their predominance in the European market, increased with the sanitary crisis, and their business model is seen by many as endangering the independent sector as a whole and more widely its cultural diversity.

The value of the role of an independent production company should be recognised in the producers’ relationships with VOD Services, in particular through the contractual terms regarding the funding and exploitation of each project. The Code of Fair Practices aims to establish basic parameters to be applied to VOD Services’ contracts when commissioning feature films, TV series and other audiovisual works (“originals”) from independent production companies. The code focuses on four points:

1. Fair and proportionate remuneration and economic participation for producers
2. Producers’ contribution and right to participate in future derivative works
3. Transparency and Accountability
4. Public Benefits and Fiscal Incentives

Click here to find more information.