EAVE Plus is a service for organisations wishing to run professional development and training programmes. We are able to offer a full service from conceiving and designing programmes to staffing and managing them.

Launched in 2007, EAVE Plus features the Film Finance Forum and Film Marketing Workshop as well as Coaching for Producers for the Dubai International Film Festival and a variety of other programmes. We are always pleased to work closely and collaboratively with our clients in devising programmes suited to their particular requirements.

We can offer advice, course design, expertise and management on a wide range of training and professional development courses delivered by our renowned producers and industry experts.

• Script assessment, analysis, and development
• Documentary development and financing
• Co-production and co-financing
• Finance and financing strategy
• Business planning and company development
• Marketing and sales
• Distribution, exhibition and new media
• Festival strategy
• Media law
• Music and film
• Project packaging
• Pitching and project presentation
• Career development and coaching
• Regional and national audiovisual development and strategy

We listen to your requirements, discuss your needs and aim to find the precise professional development or training programme that will be right for you.
Tailor made courses, ranging from one day to a weekend to a week or more, can be devised to suit your needs. Content can focus on one particular area of specialisation or combine several related themes.

Two of the programmes, the Film Finance Forum and the Film Marketing Workshop, are supported by MEDIA and the Luxembourg Film Fund. Clients also include the Dubai International Film Festival Industry Office, the Israeli Film Fund, the Birmingham Producers Forum and the MEDIA Desk Vlaanderen. 

The EAVE Producers Workshop has partnerships with many leading festivals and markets. e.g. Producers’ Network, Cannes; Berlinale Co-Production Market; Open Doors, Locarno; Cinelink, Sarajevo; Crossroads, Thessaloniki; Baltic Event, Tallin ; Cinemart, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires Lab, Paris Projects ; Sofia Meetings, Holland Film Meetings, Utrecht.

EAVE Producers Workshop has been partnered by many of the leading national institutes and regional funds in Europe over the last twenty years. Our network of prize winning graduates is one of the backbones of the European film and television industry. Graduates have consistently won major prizes at all the leading world and European festivals. 

The EAVE Plus experts and tutors are amongst the top producers and audiovisual professionals in Europe. The EAVE Plus team is composed of professionals across the range of audiovisual production as well as professional development, training and education and associated skills such as pitching, career development and coaching.

To find out more or to discuss your needs, please contact:
Alan Fountain Chief Executive EAVE Plus
Kristina Trapp Programme Manager EAVE Plus