ACE Leadership Special 4 - Call for applications

ACE Producers is very pleased to announce that the call for applications for the ACE Leadership Special 2025 is now open.

The ACE Leadership Special is aimed at experienced producers looking to develop their personal leadership and entrepreneurial skills and to establish sound business foundations for their companies. The workshop is made possible thanks to support from Creative Europe MEDIA, the Netherlands Film Fund, FOCAL and the Film Commission Lucerne and Central Switzerland.

Offering them a safe space, the ACE Leadership Special helps producers recognise and harness their capabilities and innate skills, raising their confidence to allow them to provide effective leadership for their production companies and teams.

Open to members of the ACE Network and other experienced, established producers of a similar level, the ACE Leadership Special takes place over two 3-day residential workshops with additional online sessions complementing them.

12 producers will be selected, each with their own experience of running a company and their own unique entrepreneurial capabilities, allowing the small group to benefit not only from the knowledge of the workshop consultants, but from each other’s lived experiences.

Application deadline

4 March 2025

Workshop dates

17 – 20 June 2025
15 – 19 September 2025
Regular meetings with mentor groups over summer, between the two workshops.

Locations

June: Vitznau, Switzerland
September: TBC

For further details

More information on eligibility, participation fees and how to apply can be found here.