Training programme

EURODOC is a training programme designed towards European professionals of the documentary field developing a specific project.

• Independent producers of documentary projects with international potential;
• Commissioning executives from the documentary departments of the broadcasters or from partners in the sector, bankers, distributors.
  

The objectives of the EURODOC programme are:

- to improve the development level of documentary projects of international potential, their financing and management

- to prepare their presentation to the Commissioning editors invited

- to face the technological changes in the field of development, production and distribution

- to strengthen small and middle-size companies

- to question the practices and mentalities of independent professionals in order to better consider the international dimension, the various market realities and trans-national coopération

- to set up a sustainable networking of skills and exchanges by bringing together the professionals and the decision-makers of this sector

- to take into account the special aspects of countries with low production capacity to remedy the structural handicaps encountered by professionals in those countries.

Every stage of the work (and every level within the profession) is studied in great detail (know-how and ethics): Project assessment, work on the development and the script with the filmmakers, negotiation of rights (author/filmmaker, archives, music), budgeting, "packaging", "trailers", identification of financial partners, drafting of co-production agreements, production mode, management of the production company in relation with specialised banking establishments, promotion and distribution.

Special experts are invited: producers, lawyers, script analysts, budget and pitching consultants, commissioning editors, distributors and bankers.