MIDPOINT Intensive Slovenia 2024 is a professional training program opened to film professionals from Slovenia who are developing their feature fiction film projects. The four-day program is intended for creative teams of filmmakers (scriptwriter, director, and producer).
MIDPOINT Intensive Slovenia 2024
Features
Structure
Intensive 4-day journey
During the workshop, the teams will work on the creative development of the script as well as on the production aspects of their projects. The workshop consists of group work within a small group of participants accompanied by lectures.
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All participantsWorkshopJune 3-6, 2024 | Ljubljana, SloveniaLectures
Case Study: SLOWMarija Razgute
Wednesday, June 5, 10:00 | B&B Hotel Ljubljana Park, SloveniaLithuanian producer Marija Razgutė will present a case study of SLOW - a sophomore feature film by Marija Kavtaradze which premiered at World Dramatic Competition in Sundance FF in 2023 and won Best Director award there. SLOW was produced between Lithuania, Spain and Sweden, the film became a festival darling in 2023-2024 and it was sold to numerous territories worldwide. SLOW got to the EFA Feature film selection in 2023 as well as became a Lithuanian contender for Oscars.
Experience with animation – from Pat and Mat to Jan ŠvankmajerPavel Marek
Thursday, June 6, 10:00 | B&B Hotel Ljubljana Park, SloveniaWho are Pat and Mat and what is the goal of their endeavors? What does working on a screenplay consist of? And how does Jan Švankmajer work with animation? This lecture is devoted to the animated film, its means of expression, the structure of the narrative and the principles of dark humor.
Projects
Projects
Gaja's World - Follow Me
GAJA'S WORLD is a youth action comedy that introduces us to 16-year-old Gaja and her unusual family. Gaja’s family experiences significant changes after the parents' divorce and the mother's ...
Hundred Years of Silence
"Manure is gold and gold is manure, both are 0." These are the verses of Srečko Kosovel, an enigmatic Slovenian poet, who in his constructivist poetry foresaw or predicted the death of Europe in ...
It Will Fade Away
Nurse Tonya discovers that six-year-old Yuri has been sexually harassing her three-year-old daughter Isla in kindergarten. When she learns that he has also molested two other children, but the ...
The Sewer
In an unamed city plagued by a mysterious infection, four criminals – Mitch (male, 40), Natasha (female, 35), Zemo (male, 40), and Jurc (male, 35) – plan their next job: robbing an insurance company ...
Participants
Participants
Tutors
Tutors
Script Consulant
Pavel Marek
Czech Republic
Pavel Marek is a graduate of the Faculty of Computer Engineering, Technical University and the Directing Department at FAMU. He received a scholarship at the NFTS in the UK. During the communist era ...
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Producer Tutor
Marija Razgute
Lithuania
Lithuanian film producer Marija Razgutė has been running a film production company M-Films since 2008 – now being one of the most active producers in Lithuania, working internationally and focused ...
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