Course Outline
- Individual Work on Project/s being taken to market
- Improve their knowledge of international markets, how they differ, who attends what and why;
- Identify the most suitable market(s) for their own individual projects and film slates;
- Develop tools and strategies for successful market engagement;
- Improve their skills, knowledge and confidence in packaging, pitching, negotiating, selling, understanding and closing deals;
- Achieve effective follow-through and maximise the benefits of international relationships and opportunities.
- Mentoring / Expert support
Fees
Early Bird Rate:
€850
VAT excluded.
Until June 14th, 2024.
Regular Course Fee:
€950
VAT excluded.
Included are the sessions, mentoring, and networking, such as catering in Vienna. Excluded are the market attendance costs (travel, accommodation, accreditation) .
Who’s it for?
This intensive practical short course has places for approx 16 participants. It will bring together filmmakers, producers, distributors and sales agents at the earlier part of their career. By having a mixed cohort, it will also increase awareness of each other’s roles and help build stronger networks for the future. Participants can take part with a project in late stage development, post-production, or have completed their first feature film or documentary. Sales, distribution and marketing executives will have typically a minimum of one year’s experience in their role.
Course Directors
Julia Short
Marketing & Distribution Expert
Satesh Mathura
Financing ExpertCourse directors Julia Short and Satesh Mathura each bring a wealth of experience to the programme. Julia is a distribution and marketing expert, former Director of Content on high profile courses such as Inside Pictures. Satesh is a distribution and financing expert, former Chief Operating Officer of Icon Entertainment International.
Eun-Zi Kim
Media Consultant & Creative Producer
Michael Frenschkowski
Producer
Xavier Henry-Rashid
CEOScholarships
Thanks to Creative Europe Funding, ISI has partial scholarship support available for participants who wish to attend this course from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.
If you are not from a Low Capacity Country and can give us a good reason that you are in need of financial assistance and your national screen agency does not fund training in principle, please contact us before submitting your application to discuss whether you can apply for financial support. We have very limited funds available for a limited number of participants in genuine need.
For working parents who have childcare responsibilities, we have a childcare bursary available and a bursary for participants who need extra assistance due to disability or impairment available.
Financial Support
We actively encourage participants to research and apply for financial support with your national/regional funding bodies first who may have bursaries and grants to cover training and professional development.
Please ask the MEDIA Desk in your country if there are any funding opportunities available. Kindly inform us if you apply to a national or regional fund.
We are currently reviewing all the national funds available in Europe. Below are a few examples:
- Austria: Austrian Film Institute, Berufliche Weiterbildung Berufliche Weiterbildung – Österreichisches Filminstitut
- Bosnia & Herzegovina: Contact Fondacija Za Kinematografiju Sarajevo
- Belgium: Flanders Audiovisual Fund or Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel
- Bulgaria: National Film Center or National Culture Fund of Bulgaria
- Czech Republic: Asociace Producentů V Audiovizi (for producers)
- Denmark: Danish Film Institute
- Estonia: Estonian Film Institute OR Cultural Endowment of Estonia
- Finland: Finnish Film Foundation
- Germany: Contact the regional film funds (information in German) or see Focus Germany
- Ireland: Screen Skills Ireland
- Lithuania: Lithuanian Film Centre
- Montenegro: Film Centre of Montenegro or Ministry of Culture of Montenegro
- Netherlands: Netherlands Film Fund
- Norway: Norwegian Film Institute
- Poland: Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej
- Portugal: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
- Romania: Romanian Cultural Institute
- Slovenia: Slovenian Film Centre
- Sweden: Film Institute
- Switzerland: MEDIA Desk Suisse
Partners
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