Over the last six 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 113 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, as well as other European professionals, 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 6 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 VIOLENCIA by Jorge Forero (Berlinale Forum 2015), HISTORIA DEL MIEDO by Benjamin Naishtat (Berlinale Competition 2014), FERIADO by Diego Araujo (Berlinale Generation 14+ 2014), GLORIA by Sebatian Lelio (Berlinale Competition 2013), TANTA AGUA by Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge (Berlinale Panorama 2013), TRES by Pablo Stoll (Cannes Directors’ Fortnight 2012).