ScripTeast 2015: The Tattoist

ScripTeast is a year-long training programme designed specifically for experienced scriptwriters from Central and Eastern Europe. ScripTeast focuses the script´s development and also 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. For the current edition, Martin Repka and Adga Bavi Pain have been selected to further develop their film project The Tattooist.

THE TATTOIST / Kerkár
Scriptwriters: Martin Repka, Agda Bavi Pain
Director: Martin Repka

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.

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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 Retruns 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 Tattooist (Kerkár) is Martin’s second full-length feature film for cinema.

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. The Indian Summer (Babie leto), directed by Gejza Dezorz, based on his novel and script, was released in Slovak cinemas in October 2013.

PREVIOUS SLOVAK PARTICIPANTS AT SCRIPTEAST
2012-13: Katarína Uhrová (Retro Paradise)
2011-12: Michal Kollár, Anna Fifiková (Red Captain - currently in post-production)
2010-11: Laura Siváková, Biba Bohinská (The Town of Otol)
2009-10: Zuzana Belková (Polystyrene)
2006-07: Zuzana Liová (The House – winner of the Krzysztof Kiesłowski Award, premiered at Berlinale 2011, Forum)
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published: 23.01.2015
updated: 30.01.2015