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Screenplay about president Husák's wife wins Main Award at MIDPOINT 2013

The MIDPOINT workshop, aimed at supporting talents and script developing, announced its winner: among the awarded projects was the Slovak upcoming film Magda H.

Magda H. is a project by screenwriter Terézia Simanová, a VŠMU Bratislava graduate, producer Peter Badač from Prague’s FAMU and another VŠMU graduate, Barbora Berezňáková. It  tells the story of the complicated life of Magda Lokvencová-Husáková, a lawyer, actress and the first wife of Czechoslovakian Normalization president Gustáv Husák. “Based on the consultations with the lecturers we divided the story into separate storylines that we made into a new structure. We will see about the further fates of the screenplay – so far, Czech Television has shown interest,” says Barbora Berezňáková about her participation in MIDPOINT. The Main Prize of 1 500 € should help the winners in further development of the project. 

The jury announced also two awards accompanied by twice the amount of 750 € for the best short film project – it went to FAMU’s screenwriter and director Jan Těšitel and producer Klára Žaloudková and their project David and to the screenplay entitled Leave by Hungarian filmmaker Dávid Nagy, producer Károly Bilincsi and director Éva Papp.  

This year, eleven film schools collaborated on the project, and a number of film professionals from abroad, such as German producer Simone Baumann, Slovenian producer Danijel Hočevar, Hungarian filmmaker Csaba Bollók and Macedonian director Ivo Trajkov. For the first time, a day dedicated to writing and shooting scenes, led by Italian director and screenwriter Giovanni Robbiano, was part of the workshop.

At the beginning of October, the programme called Training the Trainers will take place at FAMU in Prague, as well; it is aimed at young film-school teachers who want to gain deeper knowledge of dramaturgy. In the second half of October, international workshops for Czech and Slovak film professionals will take place in Prague and Bratislava that will help them to collaborate on their projects with screenwriters and dramaturgists from abroad. 

Previously, Slovak projects Rubicon (full-length, 2012) and Momo (short film, 2011), were awarded at the MIDPOINT workshop.

MIDPOINT was supported by: MEDIA Programme, Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Visegrad Fund and Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic.

Press release for download

More information at:
www.midpoint-center.eu
www.character-fda.eu

Related AIC articles:
MIDPOINT 2013 - Slovak projects
MIDPOINT 2012 - Winners: Slovak project Rubicon
MIDPOINT 2012 - Slovak projects
MIDPOINT 2011 - Slovak projects

published: 09.09.2013
updated: 11.09.2013