Slovak projects at MIDPOINT scriptwriting workshops 2015
The 23rd Art Film Fest IFF will be hosting the MIDPOINT scriptwriting workshops for the sixth time.
The MIDPOINT Script Development Workshop is organized by the Czech FAMU, together with other European film schools. Though originally a workshop for European students, most of the participants of the actual edition are young professionals with the projects of the first or second films.
The creative teams will be working with renowned lecturers on their fiction projects in the short-length and full-length working groups. The workshop consists of two parts - the first take place at Art Film Fest in Trenčianske Teplice, the second at the end of summer in Czech Republic.
Two Slovak projects will be participating:
- Swallows / scriptwriter: Ivana Sujová (VŠMU) / producer: Martina Čeretková (VŠMU)
- Atlantis / scriptwriter and director: Michal Blaško (VŠMU) / producer: Veronika Jelšíková (FAMU)
Art Film Fest IFF will also host the workshop focused at Slovak film professionals - the creative teams of scriptwriters and producers, who will be consulting the internationally acclaimed lecturer Martin Daniel, who teaches at the University of Southern California and is one of the EAVE Producer's Workshop experts. The development of all projects was financially supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.
- Journey of the Blind Birds / scriptwriter: Naďa Clontz / producer: Biba Bohinská, Silvia Panáková (ARINA)
- Emil / scriptwriter: Peter Gašparík / producer: Rastislav Šesták (D.N.A.)
- Just Because / scriptwriter: Juraj Šlauka / producer: Marek Urban (sentimentalfilm)
- The River / scriptwriter: Roman Valentko / producer: TRIGON PRODUCTION
MIDPOINT is a workshop to which several of its alumni return with their new projects. For these former participants, the organizers prepared the new MIDPOINT - Follow-up workshop. The Slovak feature debut By a Sharp Knife by scriptwriter and director Teodor Kuhn, co-scriptwriter Jakub Medvecký and producer Jakub Viktorín, will be also consulted withing its framework.
The MIDPOINT workshops were financially supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, MEDIA Programme, International Visegrad Fund and the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
More information at:
www.midpoint-center.eu
www.character-fda.eu
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published: 17.06.2015
updated: 22.06.2015