The EDN Workshops Southern Europe are international pitching forums and workshops providing European documentary producers and directors with an excellent and effective opportunity to create alliances for future collaborations and get access to the international market. Participants develop and pitch their projects and network with European colleagues and financiers in a constructive atmosphere. They are furthermore introduced to new market players through meetings, case studies and master classes. The EDN Workshops Southern Europe consist of Docs in Thessaloniki, which takes place every year in March in the framework of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in Greece and Lisbon Docs, which is organised together with Apordoc and in parallel to the Doclisboa Documentary Film Festival in October in Portugal. These synergies create added value and a wider outreach for all partners involved. The two workshop activities consist of a five-day programme, where a total of 44 selected documentary projects are developed, re-written and pitched. The target group for both activities is European small and medium size production companies with a special emphasis on the countries with a low production capacity. EDN Workshops Southern Europe 2017 will have a focus on both existing and new audiences and introduce participants to the power of new players in the distribution and financing markets. Furthermore an online outreach and distribution workshop for selected projects from the two workshops will be organised following the events in order to facilitate the transfer from pitch to film. This will happen through concrete outreach case studies and individual project consultation. The outreach workshop will take place on-line in order to keep in line with the overall cost efficiency of the EDN Workshops Southern Europe. Throughout the event a focus is put on keeping it time and cost efficient for both participants and organisers while at the same time creating tangible results.