PRODUCTION VALUE
The European Scheduling & Budgeting Workshop
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If you think that the creative vision of European filmmakers can be improved with intensive pre-production brainstorming,
If you are an Assistant-Director or Line Producer/Production Manager willing to improve your skills and understanding,
If you are a producer looking for efficient and high-profile input into your project in development,
... then you are at the right place!
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PRODUCTION VALUE 2010 — The fourth edition of the European Scheduling and Budgeting workshop took place in Retz (Austria) from 9 to 16 January. It gathered 30 professionals coming from 13 European countries.
Come back to read the full making-of later this Spring !
Out of the 52 applications coming from Juniors of 17 countries, 12 young professionals from 9 countries had been selected:
Junior Assistant Directors
- Judith Lichtneckert, Switzerland
- Colin Azzopardi, Malta
- Sander Donker, Netherlands
- Kaspar Lerch, Germany
- Aldo Tardozzi, Croatia
- James Velasquez, Sweden
Junior Line Producers
- Marta Habior, Poland
- Mina S. Holdus, Norway
- Äsa Karlsson, Sweden
- Kirsten Sohrauer, Germany
- Roland Stebler, Switzerland
- Lorenzo Zambelli Hosmer, Italy
For this edition, the following Seniors led the scheduling and budgeting process of 6 film projects in development and financing:
- Daniela Forn Mayor, Senior Assistant Director, Spain — new! (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona” — “The Machinist”)
- Stuart Renfrew, Senior Assistant Director, UK — returning from 2008 & 2009! (All the last Stephen Frears’ films — “Bridget Jones’ Diary”)
- Michael Schwarz, Senior Line Producer, Germany — returning from 2008! (“Oliver Twist” — “Far away so close!”)
- Marco Valerio Pugini, Senior Line Producer, Italy — returning from 2009! (“The Miracle of St.Anna” — TV series “Rome”)
- Kaare Storemyr, Senior Line Producer, Norway — returning from 2009! (“Aberdeen” — “I am Dina”)
- Frank Schlegel, VFX Supervisor, Germany – new ! (“Speed Racer”).
6 European production companies brought their film project to the workshop. The Directors and Producers of each project joined Retz in the last 2 days to discuss the results of the Juniors and the Seniors:
- THE ELEPHANT (Monster Film, Norway — Producer Olav Oen & Director Hans Petter Moland)
- FORSAKEN (Breidablick Film, Sweden — Producer Karl Fredrik Ulfung & Writer & Co-director Måns Mårlind)
- FRENCH TOUCH (Artemis Productions, Belgium — Producer Patrick Quinet & Director Gilles Béat)
- SORAN’S WAY (Paradox, Norway — Producer Peter Bøe & Co-writer-Director Hisam Zaman)
- THE 36 DAYS OF THE ST-LOUIS (Muenchner Filmwerkstatt, Germany — Producer Martin Blankemeyer & Writer-Director Tobias Stille)
- THE WARNING (Sigma Film, Austria — Producer Heinz Stussak & Writer-Director-Coproducer Ernst Goessner)
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The 5th edition of PRODUCTION VALUE will take place in Sweden from 8 to 15 January 2011. Application call for Juniors will be opened from 1 August. Application from producers with project is open the whole year long at info@focal.ch.
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PRODUCTION VALUE 2010 is a training initiative organized by FOCAL (Switzerland) in coproduction with the Erich Pommer Institute (Berlin), the Austrian Film Institute (Vienna), the Norwegian Film Institute (Oslo) and the Swedish Film Institute (Stockholm), with support of MEDIA TRAINING, a program of the European Union. Denis Rabaglia is Head of Studies.




