Over the last seven years, EAVE, the leading producers’ training programme in Europe, has expanded its training opportunities beyond the borders of Europe: with new partnerships in Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet states and Asia, EAVE is opening new windows of cooperation at a global scale. Programmes like PUENTES, Ties that Bind, B’EST and Interchange have immersed more than 149 European producers in new waters. EAVE PUENTES is a project-based yearly training programme including 2-weeks residential workshops and a market module. PUENTES brings together producers from Latin America and from Europe around the same table to discuss common concrete projects. It combines, on one hand, a steady group of cross-cultural top-notch experts and decision makers and on the other hand, a group of participants of key players of the Latin American and European markets.Throughout the 7 years of its existence, PUENTES has become the most relevant and successful training programme for developing European-Latin American co-production with exceptionally good results in terms of sales and distribution and festival exposure: 69% of the finalised projects developed at PUENTES get an international sales agent on board and over 84,6% of the projects have a successful festival exposure.Among the most recent successful PUENTES projects in terms of festivals and international distribution are films such as THE BLACK FROST by Maximiliano Schonfeld (Berlinale Panorama 2016), THE PLEASURE IS MINE by Elisa Miller (Bright Future Rotterdam 2016), VIOLENCE by Jorge Forero (Berlinale Forum 2015), SEX LIFE OF PLANTS by Sebastian Brahm (Special Mention San Sebastian 2015), HISTORY OF FEAR by Benjamin Naishtat (Berlinale Competition 2014), GLORIA by Sébastien Lélio (Berlinale Competition 2013), HOLIDAY by Diego Araujo (Berlinale Generation 14 Plus 2014), SO MUCH WATER by Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge (Berlinale Panorama 2013), RED PRINCESSES by Laura Astorga Carrera (Berlinale Generation 2013), TRES by Pablo Stoll (Directors’ Fortnight Cannes 2012), DUST by Julio Hernandez Cordon (Locarno Competition 2012), and GREATEST HITS by Nicolas Pereda (Locarno Competition 2012).