Ties that Bind will reinforce artistic and economic co-operation between European and Asian countries and facilitate the access for European professionals and audiovisual works to the Asian market. It provides European producers with the necessary skills and network to find Asian co-producers and financing, to co-produce with Asia and ultimately to open up a new market and distribution circuit for their works. TTB will bring together 10 European & Asian film producers - selected with a feature film project in development stage - and approximately 80 European & Asian decision makers and industry experts for 5 days during the Busan International Film Festival. The projects brought by the European participants need to have strong co-production or co-financing potential with Asia. Projects suggested by Asian professionals need to have the potential to qualify as European works according to the European convention. Participants will be required to be established producers with a good working knowledge of systems of development, funding and distribution in their own territories and regions. The purpose of TTB is to bring together producers and decision makers who have the existing capacity, facilitated by the programme, to begin to co-finance and co-produce projects. TTB aims to open up business opportunities, access to financial partners and distribution networks. Along with a mixed team of key industry players from Asia and Europe, the participants will develop the projects but also embrace a variety of issues including the Asian financing landscape and the Asian market. Before their arrival in Busan, there will be a phase of intense online tutoring and mentoring on the projects by the experts in order to help the producers to prepare at best their pre-arranged individual meetings with key players of the industry in the frame of the famous project market of the BIFF, Asian Project Market.