The 9th PRODUCTION VALUE workshop was held in Helsinki (Finland), January 10-18, 2015. It brought together six Junior Line Producers, 6 Junior Assistant-Directors, 10 Producers and 7 Seniors (acting as tutors) from 14 European countries, and focused on the process of budgeting and scheduling 6 feature films in development. The workshop — co-produced by FOCAL (Switzerland), the Norwegian Film Institute (Oslo), the Swedish Film Institute (Stockholm), the Austrian Film Institute (Vienna) and, for the first time, by the Finnish Film Foundation (Helsinki) — was supported by CREATIVE EUROPE, a European Union program.In filmmaking, the Schedule reflects the Plan. As, in turn, the Budget reflects the Schedule, the Budget is therefore also the reflection of the Plan. But where does the Plan come from? PRODUCTION VALUE addresses the “Plan”, i.e. the issues related to making feature films from the perspective of the assistant director and the line producer/production manager. A good part of the training covers the actual craft of scheduling and budgeting a script. But above all it is THE place for assistant-directors and line producers/production managers to learn about the responsibilities and creative demands of their positions.Working in teams of two, Junior Line Producers and Assistant Directors from all over Europe are assigned real projects in development, brought to the workshop by Directors and Producers. The teams are coached by top-level European Line Producers and Assistant Directors, to ensure that, by the end of the week, they will have achieved the best budgets and schedules possible in the given circumstances.Packed with master classes on some of the best films of the year to which our Seniors had contributed (“PRIDE," “THE GRAND HOTEL BUDAPEST,” “THE VOICES,” “THE LIBERTADOR”), PRODUCTION VALUE 2015 was an excellent vintage. Though 4 projects ended up more expensive than expected, all the producers were impressed by the Juniors’ level of commitment and expertise. The latter seemed to have enjoyed every moment of it: “I have never been so happy to pay for working so hard," concluded Junior Line Producer Ivan D’Ambrosio on the last evening.2016 will be the 10th anniversary year, the coming of age for what remains the only European training initiative addressing the scheduling and budgeting segment of producing feature films.