The ACE annual project is a one year project-based training and networking programme targeted at experienced or very experienced feature film producers. The ACE 25 participants were selected each with a project of a feature film Ín development with a high potential for an international co¬production, and in 2015, ACE was pleased to accept an animation project for the first time. The majority of the participants as usual were EU-based (16) and a small number of non-EU producers completed training this year with ACE. The projects for all participants, selected at an early level of development, were used as material for tuition.The training is based on three residential workshops in three EU countries, which took place in France, Germany and Italy in 2015. Activities included roundtables and seminars open to local participants in the aforementioned countries to promote international co-production and encourage an international exchange of knowledge between all participants, including consultants. The consultants for these training sessions are active professionals: world sales agents, distributors, bankers, commissioners from funds and broadcasters, in permanent contact with the international audience and market. As such, the producers met key potential partners during the sessions to receive useful feedback on packaging the project. 3 https : '/ťaĽca.ťĽ eurcpa.eüj'L reative-eurotie. library/eligibi li ty-nreanisai io ns- ron-eu-comtries en * hiīĒl eurona eu'proara mmescreative-europeproiects/ia The training was also based on the sharing of experience and knowledge of the members of previous years with the experience and knowledge of the new participants. Owing to their level the new participants brought as much to the alumni as they got from them. Furthermore, the events themselves were complemented by an active planned follow up of each participant by email and Skype, each producer having been attributed a script consultant and a financial mentor to coach them. The participants continue to benefit from advice and consulting from the ACE team and consultants for the rest of 2016 as well as from the Network itself, as the development of a fiction feature film can take 2 to 6 years or more in some cases. The participants were also invited to a series of networking events held in the main film markets of the year, and as members of the Network, will be invited to all ACE networking events in future, provided they pay their membership fee.With regard to the association’s Annual Reunion, the third workshop of the year held in Pisa, and to the training sessions held on this occasion, only members paying their annual subscription were admitted (new members always participate regardless, having already paid the programme fees for that year).