Starting from the next edition WEMW will launch a new East & West double focus and will bring together over 350 film professionals from more than 30 countries and, in particular, from the 2017 spotlight territories: France and the Baltic Countries(Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania).  Producers from all European territories, Canada, USA and Latin America will be eligible to apply and WEMW will select 20 projects in development with co-production potential either with France, the Baltic Countries or Italy.

ELIGIBLE CRITERIA

• Projects must be long feature fiction films or documentaries with preferably 15% of the total budget already in place
• Projects from all Eastern European countries* with coproduction potential either with France or Italy
• Projects from all Western European countries**, Canada, USA and Latin America with coproduction potential either with the Baltic Countries or Italy
• Projects from Italy with coproduction potential either with France or the Baltic Countries

SUBMISSION           
All applications must include: complete online application form, treatment in English (max 5-8 pages), financing plan, teaser of the submitted project or previous works of the director.
In order to submit your application and the required materials, you need to create your own account and fill in the online form following this link. 
Deadline: October 31, 2016.   

SELECTION
Selected projects will be announced in mid-December and selected producers will be offered up to 4 night accommodation in Trieste.

AWARDS
Along with the EAVE EPW 2017 scholarship, the Flow Postproduction Award and TRL Espresso, all selected projects will compete for two new prizes: the CNC Development Award, a 5.000 EUR grant for the best project, and the EWA – Europe Women’s Audiovisual Award, a cash prize for the best female director.
 
More information on the submission process and the WEMW programme are available at www.wemw.it.
 
 
* Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine
** Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
 
WEMW is organized by the FVG Audiovisual Fund and the Trieste Film Festival in collaboration with EAVE, Maia Workshops, Creative Europe Desk Italy, EURIMAGES, and the support of Creative Europe/MEDIA Programme, MiBACT - Direzione Generale per il Cinema, CEI - Central European Initiative and the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The 2017 focus is in cooperation and with the support of CNC - Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, Estonian Film Institute, Lithuanian Film Centre and National Film Centre of Latvia.