The MIDPOINT Editing Room is a post-production program tailored to the needs of your project. Through dramaturgy consultations and editing supervision, this program will address the challenges and concerns in your rough cut and offer an effective plan for moving forward.
MIDPOINT Editing Room 2025
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A post-production program tailored to the needs of your project
Through dramaturgy consultations and editing supervision, this program will address the challenges and concerns in your rough cut and offer an effective plan for moving forward to help you make the film you want to make.
For teams of editors and directors
- get a second opinion on your material
- cement your film's structure or explore new possibilities in the material
- discover the dramaturgy in the editing room
- profit from supervision of the editing process
- strengthen teamwork between the editor and director
- tailor-made structure of the program for editors on parental leave
Focus Female Editors
- Special offer for women editors: women editors applying in a team will get 50% off the regular fee for both Editing Room Feedback and Editing Room Workshop
Focus Ukraine
- Special offer for Ukrainian projects in post-production stage: tailor-made online dramaturgy in the editing room consultations for teams of Ukrainian filmmakers (directors, editors, producers) with a feature film project
- This focus provides scholarship support.
Program structure
The MIDPOINT Editing Room program is organized as a two-stage service
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Editing Room FeedbackONGOING CALL | Online
Our pool of tutors will examine the rough cut of your feature and then analyze it with you during an intensive 3-hour online consultation.
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Editing Room Workshop2025 | Prague, Czech Republic/ Online
Selected projects from Feedback session will be given the opportunity to participate in Editing Room Workshop.
The program cosists of a 5-10 days long residential session in Prague that focuses on additional dramaturgy consultations and supervision of the editing process at the facilities of our partner Studio FAMU.
The Workshop is tailor-made to the current needs of your project; the basic offer is another 5 working days of consultations (online or onsite) at a time suitable for participants.
Two online consultations, either in between workshops or at the end of the program, are included.
Tutors
Ivo Trajkov
Czech Republic / North Macedonia
Ivo Trajkov is a director, producer, film editor, screenwriter and story editor. He was born in Skopje, Macedonia and graduated from FAMU in Prague. His filmography as a director/screenwriter ...
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Tomas Doruska
Czech Republic
Editor, director and producer Tomáš Doruška was born in 1977 in Valašské Meziříčí. He graduated from FAMU’s Editing Department. As an editor, he has participated in about 50 projects, both feature ...
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References
We have come away feeling more confident than ever in our film and its edit. For the first time our post-workshop audience watching it understand the comedy and the theme of the film, and really relate to the main character. The program helped us make a better film, but also met us with amazing friends who continue to help us on our journey to bring to life the film we always imagined while writing and shooting it.
Magdelena Ilieva
Editing Room 2021-2022 alumna, film Eternity Package
I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with the best mentor/editor, Ivo Trajkov, in the editing room and use his creative input and editing skills in shaping Zana. The MIDPOINT Editing Room program was such an important step in turning Zana into the film it is today.
Antoneta Kastrati
Editing Room 2019 alumna, film Zana
Successful films
Selection of our successful alumni
Zana
Dark and haunting psychological drama about the collision of modern day faith healers and post-war trauma of survivors in Kosovo.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Casey Cooper Johnson, Antoneta Kastrati
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2017, MIDPOINT Editing Room 2019
Genre:
Drama, mystery, thriller
Lost in Paradise
Eugene could have gone down the safe path, studied dentistry in Bern, and taken over his father's practice. Instead, he decided to explore his native country, fulfil his dream, and go to Prague to open a music club. But man proposes and God disposes - Eugene suddenly finds himself back on the road to Switzerland, while in his head, he recapitulates the mistakes he made. A tragi-comic mosaic about remorse, the differing values of two cultures, and the hope for reconciliation.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Kristyna Michalek Kvetova, Fiona Ziegler
Genre:
Road movie
Fee & Deadline
Editing Room Feedback
500 EUR
per project
Editing Room Workshop
2000 EUR
per 5-day session for whole team
Special discount for MIDPOINT Alumni projects
300 EUR / 1500 EUR
Feedback / Workshop
Deadline
ONGOING CALL
the call is ongoing, you can apply when you are ready!
Who can apply
- teams of editors and directors with a feature film in rough-cut stage
Application requirements
Materials are to be sent to kristyna.plhonova@midpoint-institute.eu
Required materials:
- CV of the team members (director and editor): max 800 characters each (in PDF)
- Photo of team members (director and editor)
- Rough cut with time code (link for download)
- Shooting script
- Post-production schedule, including any obligatory deadlines (in PDF)
- Motivation letter, including anything you'd like us to know about the project, your concerns, hopes, etc.(in PDF, max 2 pages)
- Optional: rough cut of unused scenes with time codes (link for download)
How to apply
- send your submission materials to program coordinator Kristyna Plhonova: kristyna.plhonova@midpoint-institute.eu
- the call for Editing Room Feedback is ongoing, you can send your submission when you are ready.
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FAQs
You may ask...
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So, I can apply for Editing Room Feedback anytime?
So, I can apply for Editing Room Feedback anytime?
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Can I apply to Editing Room Workshop without having participated in Editing Room Feedback?
The original idea is to do both stages in succession, but since the post-production process can vary due to external circumstances, just reach out and we'll do our best to accommodate you.
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I'm a director and I'm editing by myself. Can I apply?
The program is designed for a team of one editor and one director. However, for Editing Room Workshop, we might be able to match you with an editor from our pool of collaborators.
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