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MIDPOINT TV Launch 2016 - Workshop 1

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Dates and venue

Workshop 1
April 15 - 21, 2016
Pilsen, Czech Republic (within Finále Plzeň FF)

Projects

1989

Historical series about the events of 1989 as seen through and experienced by the employees of Radio Free Europe. In each episode we go to a different country (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, ...
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Adriatic Inc.

The story of the grand Yugoslav Adriatic Inc. film company and its leadership duo Filip Kaleb, and Slavica Maler. Through the set-up of this fictive film studio we see the social and cultural events ...
MIDPOINT participants: Vanja MiljakVanja MiljakOzren Marod
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For the Love of Prague

Late October, 1959. A confused, nervous American animator is being transported deep behind the Iron Curtain on a Soviet-built plane. As Gene Deitch observes the checkerboard green farm fields below ...
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Glycerin

Glycerin was a short lived punk band in a small town in Serbia. Delivering no real hits, no memorable gigs, and no decent recordings, its only claim to fame was an early viral video in which the ...
MIDPOINT participants: Ivan Knezevic
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Hausen

A recently widowed father takes up the longvacant position as building manager in a rundown housing complex. Soon after moving in, his teenage son Juri starts to sense something vicious permeating ...
MIDPOINT participants: Anna StoevaTill Kleinert
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The Agreement

Series takes place in Gdansk when 800K workers across the Baltic sea were fighting for their own freedom and dignity. Andrzej (39) gets a case of dead prostitute Jadwiga. Case resonates with the ...
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The Invisible

Petr Švajcar is a young handsome man from a very poor background who dreams about becoming somebody. He fought in WWI but after the war ended he struggles to find a decent job. Petr believes only in ...
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Participants

Tutors

Head of Studies

Alan Kingsberg
United States  
Alan Kingsberg received his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where his film Minors won an Academy Award as the top student film in the US. His work in television includes writing an ACE Award ...
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Group Leaders

Alan Kingsberg
United States  
Alan Kingsberg received his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where his film Minors won an Academy Award as the ...
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Steve Matthews
United Kingdom  
Steve Matthews is Banijay’s Content Partnerships Executive, where he acts as a key facilitator in the group’s ...
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Guest Tutors

Benjamin Harris
Germany  
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Michael Rauch
United States  
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Funders and Partners