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MIDPOINT Intensive Slovenia 2024

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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).

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.

  • All participants
    Workshop
    June 3-6, 2024 | Ljubljana, Slovenia
    Lectures
    Case Study: SLOW
    Marija Razgute
    Wednesday, June 5, 10:00 | B&B Hotel Ljubljana Park, Slovenia

    Lithuanian 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 Švankmajer
    Pavel Marek
    Thursday, June 6, 10:00 | B&B Hotel Ljubljana Park, Slovenia

    Who 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
MIDPOINT participants: Tomaz GorkicDeja SkerjancTomaz Gorkic
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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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