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INTERCHANGE - TFL/DIFF/EAVE Development and Co-production Workshops
First workshop - DATE CHANGED!!! Torino (Italy), 2 - 7 May

Thanks to the support of MEDIA International, TorinoFilmLab, the Dubai International Film Festival and EAVE launched a new Middle East - Europe Training INTERCHANGE, which will build cooperation between film professionals from Europe, the Gulf countries and selected countries of the Middle East (Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen). Teams of writer/director + producer will work together in 2 residential 4 and 5-day workshops, one in Torino from 2 - 7 May and one in Dubai in December. In between, there will be tutoring via two online sessions.

The following producers were selected for INTERCHANGE:

• Heba Abu Musaed (producer) & Zaid Abu Hamdan (writer/director), Jordan/Lebanon; project: Stuffed Marrows
• Amr Alkahtani (producer) & Haifaa Al Mansour (writer/director), Saudi Arabia; project: A Personal Obligation
• Talal Al-Muhanna (producer) & Khaled Mousaed (writer/director), Kuwait; project: Habibi 99
• Dima Ansari Hamoud (producer), Kuwait & Hind Shoufani (writer/director), Palestine; project: This War on Love
• Rumzi Araj (producer) & Suha Araj (writer/director), Palestine; project: Khsara: Void After Expiration
• Marta Donzelli (producer), Italy & Zena el Khalil (writer/director), Lebanon & Gigi Roccati (writer/director), Italy; project: Beirut, I Love You
• Tinatin Kajrishvili (producer), Georgia & Samer Ghorayeb (writer/director), Italy/Lebanon & Firas Khnaisser, Lebanon; project: Abundance
• Manda Popat (producer), UK & Maythem Ridha (writer/director), Iraq; project: A Plane for My Soul
• Christopher Simon (producer), Lebanon/Australia & Basil Khalil (writer/director), Palestine; project: Kosher Swine Flu
• Francesca van der Staay (producer), Italy/Germany & Claude El Khal (writer/director), Lebanon/France; project: So Long City
• Charlotte Vincent (producer), France & Wissam Charaf (writer/director), Lebanon; project: Heaven Sent
• Amr Waked (producer), Egypt & Ahd Kamel (writer/director/producer), Saudi Arabia; project: Smile! You're in Jeddah

The 10 selected writer/director–producer teams (5 from Europe and 5 from Arab countries) will work on the development of their projects with top script consultants and professionals. The following experts are already confirmed:

• Jacques Akchoti, EAVE script consultant, France
• Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, Flying Moon, Germany
• Antoine Le Bos, script consultant, France
• Gino Ventriglia, script consultant, Italy

The TIES THAT BIND workshop will offer in-depth insight into audiovisual market and operating conditions, legal frameworks, financing, sales, distribution and exhibition practices in both continents, it will provide opportunities for networking between the participants and their companies to create medium and long term informational co-financing and co-production relationships and it will enable the access to a network of producers, markets, festivals and decision makers in both continents.

For more information please contact: EAVE: Tanika Sajatovic, International Coordinator: tanika@eave.org
Torino Film Lab: Mercedes Fernandez Alonso, Director’s Assistant: info@torinofilmlab.it
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