Born on Jeanne Moreau's proposal, Angers Workshops are addressed to young directors having with their credit one or more short films or films of school and preparing to carry out their first feature film (fiction). The first session will be taken place from 1st to 10th of July, 2005 in Angers.

The Workshops of Angers will allow their participants:

1 - to view and analyse some films of reference in the history or the present of the 7th Art.
2 - to work with confirmed directors and professionals who will testify to their experiments.
3 - to improve their personal project thanks to the constructive collaboration of the speakers and with the exchange with the other training participants

These ten days will be the occasion to discover and look further into the knowledge of the major works of past and present cinema. They will bring a sum of information, reactions, alternatives which will enrich the personal projects of the participants, while enabling them to take retreat on questions with which they are confronted in the preparation of their film. The professionals will thus propose concrete and useful solutions for the development of each project .

Considering that the new technologies offered to the young directors can suggest interrogations and deeply change the creation itself, their use and its consequences will form part of the teaching exempted in each module.

Angers Workshops have a double vocation, regional and European , in complementarity of Premiers Plans Festival which has been devoted for eighteen years to discover new European directors. These Workshops are supported by the MEDIA Training Program of European Commission, the City of Angers, by Pays de la Loire, and by the French Ministry of Culture (Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles, Pays de la Loire).

A part of the formation followed by the trainees, and in particular Master Class, will be accessible to a public of non-registered students : the actors of the cinematographic and cultural local life will be able to benefit from the professionals' presence on the Workshops. This public will be able to assist on the same time as the residents, to the programs of the morning which will proceed in the Cinema Les 400 Coups and will be devoted to the projection of a film and to a Master Class on a duration of one hour and half.