Selection criteria

Open to professionals:

• with at least one year of working experience in an arthouse cinema, or in a mainstream cinema willing to develop art cinema. Institutional workers concerned by the sector may also be eligible.
• citizen or resident in the countries associated to the MEDIA Programme : European Union, Croatia, Iceland,  Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland (some places available for people from other regions, at a higher cost).
• fluent in one of the tuition languages : English, French, German or Italian. The workshops and the communication with professionals of many different countries require a fair knowledge of conversational English.

Application on-line only (no paper file will be considered) before 06/06/2010.

The Selection Committee will chose 50 candidates (of which half will receive a CICAE scholarship and travel grant), who will all be informed personally in July; some preparation homework will be asked in July. The application will be considered definitive once a training convention will be signed by the candidate's employer, and after the payment of the participation fees.

Fees

Participation fees for MEDIA participants are of 1600€. But it is possible to apply for a scolarship and a travel grant. Fees include:

• Pedagogical material, final synthesis in 4 languages.
  
• accommodation in shared bedrooms (personal shower, closet, phone & TV) on the campus of the Island of San Servolo. (NB : shared room : same gender, 2 beds /// Possibility to be in a single room, on request, with an extra payment of 250€)
• Half boarding, bottles of water.
• Evenings and cocktails
• accreditation to the international film festival Mostra del Cinema
• accreditation to the international short film festival Circuito Off

Transportation are not included. NB : many low cost airlines reach Venice or Trévise at 30 km (Air Europe, Easyjet, My Air, Ryan Air...). Some scholars may ask a transportation grant (max. 200 €).

Fees for non MEDIA countries participants are of 2750€ or 3000€ for a single room.

National and Regional scholarships

 Many European countries offer support to professionals attending European training programmes. This comes from a variety of sources, e.g. national and regional funds, training organisations, ministries, and varies between countries. The CICAE encourages participants to apply for financial support with their national/regional funding bodies. Thanks to inform the CICAE about your application to these funds.

MEDIA countries: The MEDIA Desks located in each country are a very good source of information and advice on finding grants from national funds or institutions (as Office Fédéral de la Culture in Switzerland, Skillset in UK, Dutch Film Fund in Netherlands, Fundacja Polskie Centrum Audiowizualne in Poland...)

All the MEDIA desk's contacts here : http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/overview/who/desks/index_en.htm

NON-MEDIA countries: Candidates can ask to the French Embassy of their country to support their participation. Thanks to inform the Cicae if you do such a grant application.

CICAE Scholarships

The CICAE reserves a small fund in its overall budget to contribute towards some participants costs. This is normally used for participants from New MEDIA countries and from countries with no support mechanisms.  The CICAE is a non-profit organisation and depends from institutional funding for organising this training, that's why we kindly ask to to explain the reason why you apply for a CICAE scolarship.

Thanks to read the chart bellow before applying:

Exemples:

A candidate who

• comes from a new MEDIA country
• stays in San Servolo in a double room,

will pay 200€ and will get a travel grant, which amount will depend on the cost of the flight/train ticket.

A candidate who

• comes from an old MEDIA country
• working in a cinema with economical difficulties
• in a country where no financial support exists
• and stay in a double room,

will pay 900€ and can apply for a travel grant.

According to the MEDIA program guidelines, the CICAE will give out grants in the first place to professionnals who can't benefit from other sources of financing. Professionals benefiting from a national or regional funding are therefore asked not to apply to a CICAE travel or training grant.