Reports Previous Workshops
Ninth Workshop – 25 to 27 September 2019 in Potsdam, Berlin
The public film funds’ experiences with new players and forms of content, their impact on funding schemes and their responsibility towards the industry in the 21st century
- Module 1 – Platform Economy
- Module 2.1 – New Formats
- Module 2.2 – Group Exercise: Format Development
- Module 4.1 – Digitisation From Application to Distribution
- Module 4.2 – Blockchain as a part of the workflow
- Module 4.3 – Group exercise: block chain as part of new funding schemes. Supporting new formats and platform distribution
- Module 5 – Sustainability: Surviving the 21st Century
- Module 6 – Free Flow: What Do You Think?
Eighth Workshop – 26 to 28 September 2018 – Royaumont Abbey, France
Cooperation between public funds in an increasingly complex and international environment: opportunities, actions, ideas
- Module 1a – Panel: Co-operation between funds means mainly supporting co-production
- Module 1b – Are there possible alternatives?
- Module 2 – How to access smart data to better reach the audience?
- Module 3 – How could funds help each other to make the projects they co-finance visible?
- Module 4a – How to simplify and make life easier for funds and producers in terms of paperwork.
- Module 4b – Digitizing the Funding Process
- Module 5 – How to assess the performance of funding programs dedicated to international co-operation?
Seventh Workshop – 27 to 29 September 2017 – Finstadjordet, Norway
The Role of Public Film Funds in the Future
- Introduction
- Module 1 – What are the essential and relevant core values of public funds?
- Module 2 – How to design funding programs today?
- Module 3 – How to take risk and experiment?
- Module 4 – Is diversity essential for reaching the audiences? Are there tools for evaluating the diversity of audiences?
- Presentation of the study “Current state of investment of national and regional public funds in Europe for professional training”
- Module 5 – How to integrate new technologies and players in the value chain?
- Module 6 – Distribution and Promotion Schemes
- Module 7 – Engaging with Future
Sixth Workshop – 27 to 29 September 2016 – Warth (Switzerland)
The Development of Content: Challenges and Opportunities – Public Funds as Pawns or Players?
- Introduction – Scriptwriting and development funding landscape
- Module 1 – Evaluation of funds' portfolio
- Module 2 – Scriptwriting and Development Support: funding landscape, co-development initiatives and development strategies, successful or unsuccessful stories
- Module 3 – Automatic schemes: more about sustaining production companies than developing quality projects?
- Module 4 – VoD platforms as commissioners and distributors of original content. For good or for bad?
- Module 5 – Talent support initiatives
- Module 6 – Hybrid contents: the mix of different artistic disciplines
- Module 7 – Development – An underestimated stage in the production process?
Fifth Workshop – 29 September to 1 October 2015 – Santpoort (Netherlands)
International Co-productions, Development, Gender and quotas
- Module 1 – Co-production: Landscape (volume, co-production treaties, cinema vs television, financial, non-official)
- Module 2 – Co-productions: Financing issues: for the producers, for the funds (specific programmes, decision timeline, recoupment, financial co-production)
- Module 3 – Co-productions: Legal and Financial Issues
- Module 4 – Distribution: co-production opens access to other countries, does the audience follow?
- Module 5 – Gender / Quotas Issue – Update on Funds’ Strategies
- Module 6 – What to foresee in the next ten years based on what’s going on now?
- Module 7 – Development – An underestimated stage in the production process?
Fourth Workshop – 16 to 18 September 2014 – Štiřín (Czech Republic)
Promotion, Distribution and Success Evaluation
- Module 1 – The Role of Public Funds in Promotion
- Module 2 – Distribution – Who and What to Support
- Module 3 – Vod Platforms as Potential Friends of the EU Cinema
- Module 4 – Release Windows
- Module 5 – Finding and Addressing Audiences
- Module 6 – How to Evaluate Success
Third Workshop – 17 to 19 September, 2013 – Château de Limelette (Belgium)
Impact of Digital in Film Business and Production
- Introduction – The Perfect Storm/The Workshop Method – PEST analysis
- Module 1 – Should we support less films for an overcrowded market, or focus on ensuring that the films we select find audiences on new platforms?
- Module 2 – How does the dramatic increase in audience data and a demand-driven economy affect our decision-making processes?
- Module 3 – How far do we need to adapt to new business models, and how far can we seek to protect traditional industrial structures?
- Module 4 – Conclusions
Decision Making Processes
- Module 5 – Goals and selection processes/methods
- Module 6 – Selection criteria
- Module 7 – Profiles of experts, consultants, selection committee members
- Module 8 – Relations with higher authorities and producers
Second Workshop – 7 to 9 November, 2012 – Retz (Austria)
Financing Strategies
- Module 1 – The Role of Public Film Funds
- Module 2 – Coproduction, Minority and Agreements
- Module 3 – Financing Tools
- Module 4 – National Funds / Regional funds – Friends or Competitors?
- Module 5 – A diversity of voices… a real challenge
- Open Space Module
First Workshop – 25 to 27 April, 2012 – Sigtuna (Sweden)
Strategies and Initiatives for the Film Funders
- Module 1 – The Role of Public Film Funds
- Module 2 – Partnership with Industry
- Module 3 – Strategies
- Case Studies Modules 1, 2 & 3
- Module 4 – Continuity and Newcomers
- Module 5 – Introduction by Keynote Speaker Inga Von Staden
- Module 5 – New Formats