Baltic Bridge East by West (B’EST) aims to facilitate the acquisition and improvement of skills and competences of audiovisual professionals and the development of networks by bringing together two groups of film producers-- one from the European Union and the other from the CIS countries, Georgia and Ukraine, each with a project and a view of co-producing with the other region respectively, and four participants without projects-- to exchange information, training, and market intelligence, increase access to new markets, and build trust and long-term working relationships. Eight producers with feature film projects with an essential link between the two regions will be selected for B’EST workshop—four from the European Union and four from the CIS countries, Georgia and Ukraine. B’EST will assist the producers in finding suitable co-production partners, financiers, distributors, and sales agents, and will thereby contribute to the emergence of long-term partnerships between the West and the East. For this reason, an additional four participants without a project will be selected to attend—three from the EU and one from the CIS countries, Georgia or Ukraine. They can be representatives of audiovisual industry: producers, distributors, sales agents, representatives of institutions, financiers, etc. who want to gain knowledge and expand their scope of activities to the markets in the CIS countries, Georgia and Ukraine, and build up a solid network.Training in script development, film marketing, and project pitching, specifically fine-tuned to the needs of selected projects, will be provided by esteemed tutors of EAVE. In addition, panels and lectures on operating conditions, legal frameworks, financing systems, and cooperation possibilities in the respective audiovisual markets will be held. Between the two workshops, continuous support is offered to the project representatives over the internet.