Ex Oriente Film Programme 2016 consists of two activities – Ex Oriente Film Workshop and Ex Oriente Film Follow-Up Programme. The core of the Ex Oriente Film workshop 2016 is based on three week-long residential workshops held over the year. IDF will select 12 projects/ director-producer teams with a strong emphasize on teams originating in Central and Eastern Europe. The selected teams will receive assistance from a wide range of film experts, with each workshop focusing on a different segment of project development. Ex Oriente Film participants will be given tailored guidance in developing the subject, narrative and the visual style of their projects, making drafts of a financing and distribution strategy, and finding international partners. The course will culminate in the pitching sessions of projects at the East European Forum co-production meeting, featuring the final pitching in front of Europe's and North America's leading commissioning editors, independent producers, distributors, buyers, festival and film fund representatives. Ex Oriente Film Workshop 2016 will be supplemented by the Follow-up Programme that tracks former workshop projects until their completion, providing the participants with special scholarships, awards and opportunities to take part in the delegations and present their projects at IDFA Forum and Docs for Sale, DocsBarcelona, Sheffield Doc/Fest, DOK Leipzig Co-production Meeting, DCM Networking Days, Fipa, Last Stop Trieste, as well as to attend industry meetings at IDF's Project Market within the East Doc Platform and ongoing consultancy with the selected tutors and IDF team.