Executives' session

The training consists in a 4-day residential seminar, including

• 1 day of theoretical lectures and case studies on economics and the chain of rights (production to distribution)
• 1 day of workshops on the new challenges of the sector
• screenings at the Venice Film Festival and at the Circuito Off short film festival

Planning deadlines

• Application: 15/05/2012. The application form is here.
• Selection: 31/05/2012. List of former participants here.
• Payment: 30/06/2012. Please, see the tariffs chart bellow.
• Preparation homework : 07/07/2012. The preparation work asked is here and also here.
• Session: 27/08/2012 to 2/09/2012, including the round trip.

Languages

The lectures are translated in 4 languages (English, French, German, Italian), the case studies are held in language groups (same languages) and the workshops in conversationnal English.

Selection criteria

Both editions are open to:

>> citizen or resident in the countries associated to the MEDIA Programme : European Union, Croatia, Iceland,  Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland. Some places are available for people from other regions, but at a higher cost.

>> candidates should be 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.

>> The application will be considered definitive once a training convention will be signed and after the payment of the participation fees

Juniors's edition

The Selection Committee will chose 35 candidates of which 1/3will receive a CICAE scholarship and travel grant.

Candidates eligibles

>> with at least one year of working experience in

• an arthouse cinema
• in a mainstream cinema willing to develop art cinema
• in a film festival with the project to open a art cinema theater

>> are also eligible

• Distributors willing to better understand independent exhibition in Europe.
• Institutional workers concerned by the sector.

Executives' edition

The Selection Committee will chose 15 candidates of which 1/3will receive a CICAE scholarship and travel grant.

Candidates eligibles

• Programmers or managers with several year of working experience in an arthouse cinema
• Institutional concerned by the sector.

Fees

Fees include:

• Pedagogical material, final synthesis in 4 languages.
  
• accommodation in single bedrooms (personal shower, closet, phone & TV) on the campus of the Island of San Servolo. (NB : possibility to be in a shared room : same gender, 2 beds with a rebate of 25€ per night)
• Half boarding, bottles of water.
• opening and closing diners, and cocktail
• accreditation to the international film festival Mostra del Cinema
• accreditation to the international short film festival Circuito Off

Transportation are not included. But :

• 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 (half ticket).

For non MEDIA countries thanks to contact directly the CICAE.

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

According to the MEDIA program guidelines, the CICAE reserves a part of its overall budget to contribute towards some participants costs. The grants are given in the first place to professionnals who can't benefit from other sources of financing : applicants from new MEDIA countries and from other 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 professionnals benefiting from a national or a regional funding to not apply to a CICAE scholarship or to explain the reason why they apply for a CICAE scholarship.

Thanks to read the chart bellow before applying (in €):

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A candidate whoExemples:

• applies to the Juniors' session
• comes from a new MEDIA country
• stays  in a double room (same gender)

pays 238€ and can apply for a travel grant.

A candidate who

• applies to the Executives' session
• comes from an old MEDIA country
• works in a cinema with economical difficulties
• in a country where no national nor regional training support exists
• and stays in a single room,

pays 354€ and can apply for a travel grant.

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The seminar schedule allows candidates interested, in applying to both session (03rd to 11th of  September). Candidates should be executive, but with only few years of experiences. Fees are

• Standard : 1600€
• With a Medium scholarship : 944 €
• With a strong scholarship : 472 €