Stichting SOURCES, Amsterdam

Description 

This course offers intensive training and script development for European film professionals working on a feature film or a creative documentary film project, which addresses a broad international audience. The course is based around workshops, which lead through a threemonth development process.

The format includes:

• seven-day residential session: work in small groups with international colleagues; guided by experienced international advisers discussing each project and providing his/her feedback, advice and suggestions. Complementary individual meetings and pitching training are included. Supplementary programme with screenings, lectures and discussions;
• three-month re-writing period in close contact with all group members and coached by the advisers; follow-up session of one day per project.

In an intensely creative process, the participants work diligently on the development of their own and one another’s first draft scripts (or treatments) in a non-competitive atmosphere, while being confronted with the diversity of European culture, and experiencing both their differences and common grounds.

Target group 

Scriptwriters and teams of writers with co-writers, directors or producers.

Benefits 

• exchange of experience and know-how between script advisers, writers, producers and directors from different European countries, which stimulates the individual process of creation and facilitates European contacts and the access to a European cooperation network;
• active script development when experienced script advisers provide professionals with a range of ‘tools’ to enhance their writing skills and to develop their projects to their greatest potential;
• input of international colleagues because the communicative strength of the script is tested by a committed first “test audience.”

Dates 

March 31 > April 8, 2011: Graz - Austria

Fees 

Application fee: €100 per project;
Participation fee: €1,800 per writer/project;
€900 for additional person committed to a project (co-writer, producer, director);
€1,000 per observer.
Includes accommodation, meals at first session.

Requirements 

Project with creative quality, production potential, crossborder appeal; track record; writers: treatment/1st draft script completed; producers /directors: DVD of recent film, if available; undertake to take part in full course, respect copyright.

Participants 

17 (12 screenwriters, 4 co-writers/producers/directors, 1 observer).

Registration deadline(s) 

December 1, 2010

Stichting SOURCES Amsterdam (NL)
Köthener Straße 44
10963 Berlin - Germany
T +49 (0)30 8860 211
F +49 (0)30 8860 213
Renate Gompper
renate@sources2.de
Marion Gompper
marion@sources2.de

www.sources2.de