MIDPOINT TV Launch 2016 - Workshop 1
Series
Archive
Organizational infromation
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Complete bio
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 ...
Complete bio
Steve Matthews
United Kingdom
Steve Matthews is Banijay’s Content Partnerships Executive, where he acts as a key facilitator in the group’s ...
Complete bio