Producer with a feature film project
Production Value is a workshop that assists European producers and directors to address all issues involved in the budgeting & scheduling of their future projects.
If you have a feature film with a medium-range or high budget, a complex shooting and a sophisticated post-production, or just a film with many options still open and questions not yet answered, then Production Value is the place where you can deal with all these aspects in a quiet, honest and highly-professional environment.
The workshop offers expertise at the highest level, defining — and often solving — the main issues related to the making of your project, during the financing period or before you are about to greenlight the project.
Production Value is intended to be a win-win situation for the participating line producers/assistant directors (juniors) and the producers and directors: the juniors get real projects to work on, while producers and directors get detailed budgets and schedules more or less for free.
At the end of the workshop, schedules and budgets (and comments by the seniors and juniors) are delivered to the producers in MM Scheduling 6 and MM Budgeting 7 and 10 documents, as well as PDF files.
We welcome film projects from all over Europe, that meet the following criteria:
- An English-speaking version of the script must be available.
- The project must have a certain level of complexity, many locations, different countries, studio shoot, presence of children, on-set special effects and stunts, visual special effects, etc…
- The project is preferably conceived as an international coproduction between 2 or more European countries.
- The estimated budget should be of 3 million Euro minimum.
- The Producer of a feature film must set the main framework of the project as in questionnaire.
- Before the workshop, producers must be available online for further questions by the seniors and juniors.
- The producer and the director (or other representative of the project) must be able to attend the workshop on the last 2.5 days (Friday to Sunday).
Please note that the workshop focuses on the so-called “below-the-line” costs, excluding costs related to main cast, director, writer(s), producers’ fees, overheads, etc. — all of which remain exclusively the prerogative of the producer.
The main benefits of your participation in Production Value are:
- Elaboration of budgets and schedules reflecting the state of the circumstances and facts given
- Neutral expertise and evaluation of your film project by leading European assistant directors and line producers
- Environment favoring discussions about the ramifications of your creative vision
- Experience of sharing your creative vision with assistant directors and line producers
- Better understanding of co-production implications
- Access to a network of talented assistant-directors and line producers
- Simulation of the impact of regional and tax funds on the financing of your project
We guarantee the confidentiality of the projects brought to the workshop.
Apply with all relevant material and questionnaire (see above) to the Head of Studies before 15 November 2023.