Filling the Gap
Do you wish to develop competences in Situational Leadership, Conflict Management, International Co-production, Social Sustainability within a networking community?
In 2023 Noemi Ferrer and Tina Wagner, who have been running YNPC since 2012, conducted a survey supported by DFI, NFF and NFTV, based on 45 producer interviews. The result clearly indicated a similar need for skills development among Nordic producers.
As a result, we have created this time-efficient and cohesive course consisting of 4 modules held three times between late October 24 to mid-January 25.
This course provides you with a powerful networking community to support your future endeavors. Our ambition is to create a healthy balance between artistic ambition, leadership, and business, to optimize you and your colleagues’ wellbeing, update your knowledge about international financing, and reinforce your business identity, enabling you to appear unique and strong in the market.
We focus on your role as a producer, helping to renew your profile to benefit both personally and businesswise.
This course emphasizes a strong symbiosis between theory and practice, directly targeting our industry, combining cases, discussions and dilemmas.
COURSE I – SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP
October 24 – 27 in Gothenburg – FILM I VÄST.
This course focuses on situational leadership, advocating that effective leadership must be tailored to the specific context of each situation. It focuses on the team’s composition and dynamics, the nature of the tasks at hand, the team’s skill levels in relation to those tasks, and the relevant time constraints. By understanding these elements, producers can provide the most appropriate guidance and support, leading to a more efficient production environment.
Anders W. Berggren, Ph.D & Organizational consultant
Cecilia Navik, Senior consultant, Sententia management
Kristina Börjeson, Head of Production, Film i Väst
Martin Persson, Founder & Executive producer, Anagram
The trainers/experts for this module are Anders W Berggren and Cecilia Navik.
Anders is an organizational consultant with over 30 years of experience as a consultant, and has a background as a researcher within leadership, organization, organizational culture, learning organizations, power, and gender. As a consultant he has been working with leadership training, employee training, and management teams on different hierarchical levels, and have had assignments in different kind of organizations, and both public and private.
Cecilia is an assistant psychologist. She has a background within Telia as Project Manager, Customer Loyalty Manager, Team leader Sales Communication, and Team leader, Business and Market planning, and since 2010 she works as an organizational consultant. She has created and participated in long-term development programs for both leaders and non-leaders together with, among others, IKEA, the Construction Trade Union, Söderköping municipality, Ystad municipality, SAAB, Toyota and the Postcode Lottery.
Kristina Börjeson and Martin Persson will join us as business expert to discuss different dilemmas in handling leadership in our business.
COURSE II – CO-PRODUCTION & FINANCING & THE ART OF GIVING NOTES
November 27 - 30 in Copenhagen - Nordisk Film, Valby
This module aims to (re)immerse producers in film financing by examining two high-level coproduction cases. Participants will conduct an in-depth analysis of the financing, rights, and expenditure issues for two feature films, exploring their financial pathways and discussing negotiations and deliberations. This includes Nordic and European funding, international equity financing, and aspects of ROW and North American (pre)sales. The seminar will also involve solving two cases by the attending producers.
Signe Byrge Sørensen is a Danish film producer. She is the head of and co-founder of the film production company Final Cut for Real in Copenhagen, Denmark
Mikkel is one of the founders of Snowglobe and has been involved in more than 40 feature films. He graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in 2011
Anders Kjærhauge, CEO and Head of Legal, Zentropa
Karen Baumbach has a vast experience as line-producer and production manager of international films and TV-series including “Madame Luna” (2024), “Copenhagen Cowboy” (2022), “The Chestnut Man” (2021) and “Greyzone” (2018).
THE ART OF GIVING NOTES
Developing a script is a vulnerable process. The process to a shooting draft is often filled with harsh, diffuse and demotivating comments. Sometimes useful, but sometimes also helping to destroy the originality of the project.
Are there conditions for the conversation that can "raise the bar" for the creative process?
Silje Riise Næss has been commission editor at the Norwegian Film Institute and the Danish Film Institute. Later she got appointed as head of artistic evaluation at NFI before she took over the position as director of Talent Norway.
Charlotte Sieling, Director, scriptwriter and actess. Graduated from The Danish Film School in 1995. Best known for Margrete – Queen of the North, Borgen and Broen among many.
COURSE III – CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
January 9 - 12 in Oslo – The Norwegian Film Institute.
CONFLICT MANAGEMENT
Conflicts can drive change and innovation, but they can also hinder development and well-being. The outcome depends on how we approach and manage conflicts. This module in Conflict Management aims to
strengthen the producers ability to deal with conflictual situations – in a way where they both take well care of themselves and the people they work with. Together with the other modules, the learning on conflicts, can contribute to more safe and less stressful working environments.
The trainer/expert for this module is Mette Juel Madsen, independent specialist in Conflict Management. Mette is an independent conflict management specialist, and function as the head of professional development at the Danish Centre for Conflict Resolution. She has extensive experience working with conflicts at workplaces both in terms of training professionals and also actual conflict management and mediation at various workplaces. Mette has also worked with restorative processes in various contexts, e.g. she was a mediator at the Danish Victim-Offender programme for 10 years.
ADVISORY BOARD
We have an advisory board attached to our program to maintain a close connection to the industry with the ability to constantly adjust the program according to industry needs.
Hanne Palmquist, CEO Filmlance, Claus Ladegaard, CEO DFI, Silje Riise Næss, Director Talent Norway, Ivar Køhn, CEO Rubicon, Mikkel Jersin, Producer and founder of Snowglobe, Venla Hellstedt, Producer Dionysos Films, Nima Yousefi, CEO Hobab, Isabel Davis, Executive Director, Screen Scotland
The course is aimed for 16 Nordic producers with at least 3 years of experience.
The Norwegian Film Institute support 4 Norwegian Producers and danish producers can apply for support at DFI.
Participants fee DKK 9.800
Participants cover travel and accommodation themselves.
Deadline for application: September 12
Sent an e-mail to tina@filmgreb.dk with name, cv and motivation letter.
The courses are developed by Noemi Ferrer, founder and CEO of Yes & Noe and film-commissioner at the Icelandic Film Centre & Tina í Dali Wagner, former head of postgraduate training at The Danish Film School, former head of The Faroese Film Institute, CEO of Filmgreb.
The program is kindly supported by
