Ex Oriente Film is an international project-based training program - a creative laboratory - for documentary professionals supporting the development and funding of creative documentary films and documentary series from Central and Eastern Europe. Each year 12 projects are selected to receive assistance from a wide range of film experts, with each workshop focusing on a different segment of development. The course culminates in the pitching sessions at the East European Forum co-production meeting, featuring the final presentation in front of Europe's and North America‘s leading commissioning editors, distributors, buyers and film fund representatives. Ex Oriente Film workshop is supplemented by the Follow-up programme that tracks projects to their completion, providing former participants with ongoing consultancy and scholarships for international festivals and markets and helping to multiply their professional contacts.
