We are thrilled to announce the nine series projects and three development executive participants that have been selected for the MIDPOINT Series Launch.
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Meet the Series Launch 2024 Generation!
února 27, 2024
Allow us to introduce you to the nine projects and the participants who will be presented at the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event in November 2024:
As If Nothing Had Happened (Romania)
Eva Todica, writer
Ioana Bogdana, writer
Black Winds (Israel)
Daniel Imaran, writer
Oz Zirlin, writer, director, producer
Bloody Dunes (Lithuania)
Andrius Lekavicius, writer, co-director
Irma Puzauskaite, director
Greta Akcijonaite, producer
Hotel Love (Hungary)
Gyorgy Barathy, writer
Mild Miracles (Croatia)
Rene Gallo, writer
Danijel Pek, producer
Tremor (Romania)
Tudor Ganea, writer
Iulia Weiss, producer
The Art of Magdalene (Poland, Ireland)
Wiktor Piatkowski, writer, producer
Jonathan Farrelly, writer, director, producer
The Guide (Ukraine, Czech Republic)
Oksana Artemenko, writer
Svitlana Soloviova, producer
The Club (Georgia)
George Varsimashvili, writer, director
Rusudan Chkonia, writer, director, producer
Writers, directors, and producers are about to embark on the intensive development process and meet international markets and decision-makers.
Three development executive participants will accompany the selected projects on their nine-month journey while enhancing their skills:
Petra Strasek, Slovenia
Frederik Ehrhardt, Germany
Eva Pjajcikova, Czech Republic
The program welcomes back series programs Head of Studies Gabor Krigler (Hungary), who will act as a group leader alongside Tatjana Samopjan (Sweden) and Steve Matthews (United Kingdom).
We are very excited to welcome aboard a new Development Executive Mentor, Ukrainian creative Sasha Vyshnevska, who serves as a Development Executive at Gingers Media (part of the Organization of Ukrainian Producers created in March 2022 with the mandate of sharing stories about the war in Ukraine and providing a much-needed lifeline to Ukrainian audio-visual workers).
The Series Launch program will commence with online preparatory workshops (March 4-8, 2024), followed by all creative teams and DE participants meeting in person for two residential workshops in the Czech Republic (March 10 – 17 and June 9-16).
The program will conclude in November with a third residential workshop within the Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, featuring the presentation platform Season Finale.
Congratulations to all selected projects and participants!
Welcome aboard!
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As If Nothing Had Happened
Romania, 1980s. In their final year of high school, Cristina and Nana are best friends with a secret - they’re in love, in a time and place where being gay is illegal and dangerous. When their ...
Bloody Dunes
“Bloody Dunes” follows a rebellious trio of high school girls who skip their prom's after-party for a wild weekend with older kite-surfers on the mysterious Curonian Peninsula, a land divided by ...
Black Winds
During his best friend's wedding, Yosef is getting bitter and dragged to the local police station. After Adam, Yosef's best friend, convinces him to press charges - Yosef goes missing. Two days ...
Cathedral
Salome, an amateur DJ, has a dream to access the techno club "Cathedral", which is considered to be an oasis of freedom from society that is dominated by hate and division. On her way to the club, ...
MIDPOINT participants:
Rusudan Chkonia, George Varsimashvili , Rusudan Chkonia, Rusudan Chkonia, George Varsimashvili
The Guide
Ukraine, present day, Zhenya moves to a new city for university, hoping to leave his past behind. He struggled with a lack of acceptance from his classmates in school, which made him feel uneasy. To ...
Tremor
Bucharest. Little Paris, as it was known 100 years ago. Periodically shaken by devastating earthquakes, the city's built-up fund suffers major degrades. The historic buildings are in pre-collapse ...
MIDPOINT participants:
, Tudor Ganea
Hotel Love
Alice (22) is about to meet Leonard Cohen (49) for the first time in an old chic hotel. However, when she wants to escape the situation and the hotel itself – we learn that this is not a real place ...
MIDPOINT participants:
Gyorgy Barathy
Mild Miracles
Everyday people pray for many reasons and God hears all those prayers. But, He doesn't have time for all of them. So in order to attend some of those "meaningless" prayers, he has his "workers" all ...
The Art of Magdalene
In 2022 a Polish middle-aged woman was arrested by the Spanish police on charges of fraud, embezzlement of over 100 m EUR and money laundering. Among their victims are artists, politicians, ...
