Course Outline
Tailor-made to the individual priorities of the selected group, the ProPro portfolio of topics includes:
- Leadership & Company Management: Develop essential skills in team management, strategic planning, and effective decision-making for sustainable growth.
- Positioning & Marketing: Define your unique selling points, refine your marketing approach, and strengthen communication strategies.
- Presentation & Negotiation Skills: Master techniques for impactful personal and project presentations, as well as negotiation.
- Business Models & Financing: Explore innovative business models, financing strategies, and collaboration structures.
Networking & Industry Insight: Build connections with key industry players and gain insider knowledge on the European film landscape.
Take-Aways
Encouragement to think big!
- Career development and Leadership skills: personal mission statement, effective strategies for decision-making and negotiation techniques, sustainable growth goal setting, resilience to navigate the complexities of entrepreneurship and leadership, female-specific social pressures and issues tackling.
Get inspired to innovate and explore!
- Company Management and Business Skills: strategic planning tools, financial management, innovations such as new financing opportunities, alternative business models, smart collaboration structures.
Invaluable industry insights!
- Industry professionalism: industry trends & challenges, inspiring case studies, navigating & shaping the European production landscape, various aspects of production (script-development, packaging and pitching, co-production, distribution, …)
Create meaningful connections!
· Networking Opportunities: Meet outstanding women personalities of the industry, foster a supportive community of like-minded professionals, meet international mentors, experienced experts, useful institutional contacts. Explore potential collaboration opportunities.
Applications open mid December 2024
Regular Course Fee:
**Through collaborations with our partner-institutions, the participation-fee is waived.
Who is it for?
Applications are open to women producers with a minimum experience of 5 years in the field for participation with a project (feature-length fiction, documentary or series). Or, if company owners/CEOs, they can choose to work on their business.
Also open to women entrepreneurs from other areas who work closely with producers, like distribution, sales, PR, studios, …
Applicants should be ready for or already engaged in international collaborations.
ProPro Alumnae can reapply if their professional situation has significantly changed since they participated.
Course Directors
Tereza Šimíková
Filmmaker and Producer
Klara Pollak
ProducerSpeakers
The mentors, as well as many experts, are hand-picked for the individual needs of the respective participants and their projects. Our previous editions featured Linda Beath (Canada/Italy), producer Bettina Brokemper (Germany), Gabriela Bacher (USA, Germany), script editor Kate Leys (UK), strategist Colleen Keegan (USA), journalist, film festival consultant Wendy Mitchell (UK), producer Paula Vaccaro (UK, Italy), psychologist Katherine Dennis Gonzalez, and many more.
The list of 2025 experts and mentors coming soon!
Partners
The Austrian Film Institute
Booking terms and conditions for participants
If you are unable to attend the International Screen Institute course due to (certified) health reasons (e.g. Covid infection), please contact our office. We will consider alternative possibilities for your participation and if no option is suitable, we will allow you to use the payment you have made against the next edition of the course. If you are unable to attend the International Screen Institute course due to any other reasons, please contact our office as soon as you become aware of your impossibility to attend. Depending on the time of your notice, and on the costs we have incurred in connection with your booking, we may not be able to refund part or all of your participation fee. Your case will be dealt with on an individual basis. We reserve the right to cancel or postpone a course if circumstances require it. In this case, your participation fee will be transferred to the rescheduled dates. If you are unable to attend rescheduled courses, you will be entitled to a full refund. If you have any questions about the programme, the application form or financial support needed to attend this course, please email office@screeninstitute.eu