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MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2014

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Dates

August 23 - 30, 2014

Projects

Agnes & Andras

Agnes and Andres is a feature-length drama with alienation effects (emphasis on admitted coincidences, occasional narrator inputs who thereby thematizes manipulation as one of the pillars of the ...
MIDPOINT participants: Katerina DolezalovaKlara Vlasakova
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Filthy

Lena is subtle and beautiful 16 years old girl, growing up in Bratislava. With her best friend Roza, cheeky and provocative, they are hanging out in forbidden parts of city, dark clubs and dangerous ...
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Hairdresser

This screenplay is based on the true story of Ewa (34), who is looking for her missing dauther – Monika (17). Monika does not appear on her eighteenth birthday party. Nobody knows nothing. The police ...
MIDPOINT participants: Marta MalinowskaPaulina Skibinska
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Kids From East

KIDS FROM EAST is a movie about children desire for adventure and the power of friendship which develops by common experiencing of danger. Our main hero, 10 years old Sasha, is a member of a children ...
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My Last Birthday in Yugoslavia

Sarajevo, beginning of April, 1992. KOSTA DIMITRIJEVI (35) officer of the Yugoslav Army, works on the radar system on a mountain above Sarajevo. War in Croatia has already reached its climax and the ...
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Shame

In a small town in Macedonia surrounded by high mountains and abundant natural beauties, lives Neda with her fourteen years old son Angel. Life hasn't been generous to her, but Neda is a fighter and ...
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The Beauteous

Jakub is delicately charming, David magically captivating. They both attract attention of the outer world, but they do not own their lives. The journey to find their own identity, integrity and ...
MIDPOINT participants: Jan KoblerMichal KracmerJan Kobler
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The Contest

Step on a huge map of continents with outlined states inside of it. The rules are simple. Stay within the borders of your state and do not fall asleep. If you hear the chicken dance music, start to ...
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The Memoirs

Dr. Oo was a 30-year-old psychiatrist. She was told that her father was a military officer but she, however, had never met him Her mother took her own life not long after she became a medical doctor ...
MIDPOINT participants: The Maw NaingThe Maw NaingAung Min
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Vera dreams of the Sea

Vera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, who leads a well-structured life: a wife to a renowned judge, a supportive mother, and a caring grandmother. Her serene life is disrupted by her ...
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Participants

Tutors

Head of Studies

Pavel Jech
Czech Republic  
Pavel Jech co-founded MIDPOINT in 2010 and has been active ever since as a group leader and speaker in its various programs. He also has worked as a trainer at development labs such as Sundance ...
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Group Leaders

Csaba Bollok
Hungary  
Graduated as film and television director at the Hungarian Academy of Film and Drama in 1994, studied filmmaking in ...
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Pavel Jech
Czech Republic  
Pavel Jech co-founded MIDPOINT in 2010 and has been active ever since as a group leader and speaker in its various ...
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Pavel Marek
Czech Republic  
Pavel Marek is a graduate of the Faculty of Computer Engineering, Technical University and the Directing Department at ...
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Brendan Noel Ward
United States  
Brendan N. Ward’s career in film and television balances writing and producing with teaching a new generation of ...
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Guest Tutors

Martin Daniel
United States  
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Gyula Gazdag
United States  
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Giovanni Robbiano
Italy  
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Experts

Gyula Gazdag
United States  
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Arne Kohlweyer
Germany  
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Tereza Polachova
Czech Republic  
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Radim Prochazka
Czech Republic  
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Giovanni Robbiano
Italy  
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