ScripTeast 2015

ScripTeast is a year-long training programme designed specifically for experienced scriptwriters from Central and Eastern Europe. It focuses the script´s development and on the overall promotion of the film projects and their authors. Since its first edition in 2006-2007, six Slovak scriptwriters have successfully participated in the workshop. In the current edition, Martin Repka and Adga Bavi Pain represent Slovakia and develop their film project The Tattoist. In addition, Matej Mináč, participates with his Slovak-Czech co-production project Never Give Up!.

		THE TATTOIST / Kerkár SK / development / fiction Director: Martin Repka Scriptwriters: Martin Repka, Agda Bavi Pain
Maro, the inker, is released from prison where he had spent the last years of his life. He has long since lost faith in himself and the world into which he is now to return. Too much has changed too fast. Tattoos, which in Maro’s days symbolised nonconformity and rebellion, have come to be a mass phenomenon.
Contact:		PubRes +421 905 639 429 pubres@pubres.sk www.pubres.sk
About Martin Repka (*1975)		Born in Germany, graduated from the Film and Television Academy of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia; currently based in Vienna, Austria (AMOUR FOU Vienna Team as Head of Postproduction and Production). He directed several internationally awarded short films, and made his feature debut Return of the Storks (Návrat bocianov, SK-DE) in 2007. His latest short film Tiger Fight (Tanec tigra, 2013) was shot in Chennai, India as a Slovak-Indian-Austrian coproduction. The Tattoist(Kerkár) is Martin’s second full-length feature film for cinema.
About Agda Bavi Pain (*1966)		Graduated in Scriptwriting and film dramaturgy from the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia. He is a respected Slovak writer, with numerous awards for his literary works. In addition, he is a playwright, poet and a scriptwriter. Indian Summer (Babie leto), directed by Gejza Dezorz, based on his novel and script, was released in Slovak cinemas in October 2013.
		NEVER GIVE UP! / Nikdy sa nevzdaj! (previous title JOURNEY TO FELLINI) SK / development / fiction Director: Matej Mináč Scriptwriter: Mate jMináč
Contact:		Trigon Production +421 915 839 196 trigon@trigon-production.sk  www.trigon-production.sk W.I.P.  +420 602 668 592 mminac@yahoo.com

published: 07.05.2015
updated: 08.05.2015