The starting point might be that you want expert advice on how to develop your screenplay. Our acclaimed course Project Development - Feature Screenplays gives tailored coaching and guidance over 8 seminars to help you refine your script. We've had great feedback on this course and it remains the best course to make sure your script and story hit the right notes.

Raising development finance is one of the difficulties facing many producers. It's not surprising, therefore, that our Development Strategies and European Development Funds course always sells out very quickly. The course gives feedback to all participants on the best way to get development finance from Europe for their projects.

Many producers have told us that they struggle to find suitable writers for projects on their slate. Our MeetMarket Writers meet Producers / Producers meet Writers might help you find the writer you're looking for to write or rewrite a script or alternatively, may well provide a new project to add to your slate.

If you're next career step is to produce a high-quality short film which will help you get noticed in the industry you might want to apply for our Initialize Producer's Lab - Athena - for 10 women development execs, film producers, line producers, directors, TV producers. The lab, which is run in association with BBC FiIm Network and Shorts International, is a mix of seminars, lectures, mentoring and pitching sessions to help you have the skills, knowledge, confidence and connections to make an outstanding short film. We had excellent feedback for the first edition of this lab in 2006.

For more experienced producers we have a new lab supported by UK Film Council and Skillset. The Initialize Producers Lab on European Co-Productions is the definitive course on how to strategise, implement and manage a European Co-Production. Led by Europe's top producers, legal advisors and financiers, the lab mixes seminars, lectures, workshops, one-to-one feedback on your co-production plan and tailored meetings at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival.

We have another UK Film Council / Skillset supported lab for film producers on Online Marketing and Distribution Strategies. Led by top viral marketing execs, aggregators, and distribution experts, this is the first programme of its kind in the UK to offer in-depth practical coaching and tuition to producers who want to self-distribute their films. The programme will take place in September 2008.

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