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ACE Producers and Independent  Film Foundation are pleased to announce the Call for Applications for the Training Days Poland 2025 which has been set up thanks to the support of the Polish Film Institute.

The ACE Training Days Poland is
a tailor-made 2-days programme designed for emerging producers at relatively early stages in their careers, who are looking to expand their network and learn more about the international context of the audiovisual industry. The hands-on workshop welcomes producers working in fiction, animation, and documentary, and strives to make
the industry inclusive, diverse,
and collaborative.

For this workshop a total of 12 producers (6 Polish and 6 total from neighbouring countries) will be selected to join the workshop taking place in Warsaw. As ACE aims to encourage international collaboration, the call is open to emerging producers from Poland, as well as Albania, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Montenegro, North-Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

The Training Days Poland will be themed around Fundamentals of International Co-productions. The interactive workshop will include plenary sessions, case studies as well as group meetings provided with the help of ACE consultants and producers who have notably strong track-records in international financing, co-production, negotiation, sales and distribution, and who will share their knowledge and international expertise.

 

The ACE Training Days Poland is connected to the ACE 35 Financing Strategies Workshop
(24  - 29 November, Warsaw), which is a workshop within the ACE Annual Programme organised
for the selected 18 experienced producers from Europe and beyond.

 

WORKSHOP DATES

26 & 27 November 2025

(the workshop starts at 09:30 in the morning, therefore international participants should arrive on the 25th and depart the 27st after 18:00).
 

LOCATION
Warsaw, Poland
 

ELIGIBILITY CONDITIONS

  • Emerging producers with an interest in the international market and coproduction (this workshop will not focus on line production).
  • Producers should have at least one credit on a short film.
  • Producers will best benefit from the workshop when already working on a feature-length project in development.
  • Producers would need to be committed to attend the entire workshop.
  • Producers who were selected for previous editions of the Training Days are eligible to re-apply.


FEES

  • Participation is free of charge, but we do ask full commitment.
  • ACE Producers will cover the subsistence during the workshop.
  • All travel & accommodation expenses that arise will NOT be covered by the organisation.
    The producers can apply to their local/national fund to support these expenses.

 

APPLICATION DEADLINE

1 September 2025 at 23:39 CEST
Up to 12 places available.

 

HOW TO APPLY

Please submit your application HERE

In the applications, you need to attach the following documents, in English and all merged into 1 PDF file:

  • One-page motivational letter
  • Company profile
  • Producer’s biography & filmography
  • List of current projects in development (with information and status on each project)


You have also to attach the declaration of participating, which you can find HERE

 

 

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Violetta Kamińska  violetta@nff.org.pl 
Thijs van der Laak  thijsvanderlaak@ace-producers.com

Independent Film Foundation

Piękna 66A/7, 00-672 Warsaw

tel: +48 22 851 84 40

info@nff.org.pl

@ 2025 Independent Film Foundation