European Co-production and Ways to Go to the International Film Market.

How to make a project internationally relevant and attractive; how to use and understand the term storytelling and scriptwriting in the documentary field; how to prepare and analyze written proposal applications; what is the role of visual materials; how to organize the different stages of production; which specifications and conditions of the European co-production are to be taken into account when approaching international partners; what is the state of art of documentary trends and the current situation of the regional, European and international markets, festivals and industry.

Martichka Bozhilova (Bulgaria), producer 

A producer of AGITPROP, Bulgaria since 1999. Among her films are: Georgi and the Butterflies (Silver Wolf, IDFA 2004), The Mosquito Problem and other stories (Cannes 2007), Corridor #8 (Berlinale 2008), The Boy Who Was a King (Toronto IFF 2011), The Last Black Sea Pirates (Visions du Reel, HotDocs 2013), Love and Engineering (Tribeca 2014). Founder and director of the Balkan Documentary Center for supporting documentary filmmakers from the Balkans. Jury member at DokLeipzig 2014 and IDFA 2014. Martichka received the International Trailblazer Award at MIPDOC in Cannes for creativity, innovation, originality and breakthrough in the field of documentary cinema. She was ranked in the prestigious selection 100 Most Influential Women in Bulgaria and in top 7 of the most influential Bulgarian creative visionaries, according to Forbes. In 2013 she was nominated as Woman of the Year.