MIDPOINT TV Launch 2018
Series
Archive
Organizational infromation
Dates and venues
Workshop 1
November 4 - 10, 2017
Banska Stiavnica, Slovak Republic
Workshop 2
April 19 - 25, 2018
Pilsen, Czech Republic (within Finale Plzen FF)
Workshop 3
August 11 - 17, 2018
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (within Sarajevo FF)
Projects
Anatomy of a Crime
In 1969, an unfathomable murder stuns a secluded village in Yugoslavia: a pregnant woman is killed and her baby cut out and taken from her. VAHIDA HODŽIĆ (27), a childless village woman who claimed ...
Atavism
The European Union has just imposed a new regulation on the number of inhabitants allowed on Atava Island (autonomous community of Spain). This mirrors a similar debacle that occurred there in the ...
Mother's Got a Gun
TAMARA, HAJO and KONRAD, former members of the militant RAF(aka Bader-Meinhof-group), have been on the run from the German authorities for over 35 years. Lately they have been living in Slovakia as ...
Sleepover
Theano is a single, 41 year old nutritionist, going through a midlife crisis in the crazy city of Athens. Theano might believe she is an adult, trying to deal with her own life and ‘save’ her ...
MIDPOINT participants:
Alkis PapastathopoulosAmanda LivanouMaria HatzakouMaria HatzakouAlkis Papastathopoulos
TURBO
Belgrade, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Zurich - 1991. While ‘Yugo-gangs’ are raiding Western countries, loads of guns from the looming civil-wars are flooding the streets of Belgrade, finding their way ...
MIDPOINT participants:
Matthias NerlichMilan StojanovicMilica ZivanovicMatthias NerlichBoris Grgurovic
Transit
Victor Jacobs, the 40 year old co-owner of the family trucking company ‘Satellite’, struggles to cope with the sudden death of his beloved wife Catherine. While trying to get his life back on tracks ...
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
Gabor Krigler
Hungary
Gabor’s career began on the writing staff of a daily serial at the Australian-German firm Grundy UFA in 1999. He ...
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Maggie Murphy
United States
Maggie Murphy is an independent Executive Producer. She worked 8 years for Shaftesbury U.S. and founded the company’s ...
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Director Tutor
Producer Tutor
Pitching Tutor
Moderator
Guest Tutors
Experts
Awards
HBO Europe Award 2018
5.000 USD handed out by the partner of the workshop, HBO Europe, to celebrate the Best TV Series Project of the MIDPOINT TV Launch 2018 program, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the Workshop 3.
Winner: SLEEPOVER
C21 Media Award 2018
Given out by the partner of the workshop, C21 Media, the award will give a one-year subscription access to one of the MIDPOINT TV Launch 2018 participants, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the Workshop 3.
Winner: MILAN STOJANOVIC (TURBO)
Art Department Masterclass 2018
Granted by the Art Department Masterclass, the award will bring one TV Launch project to the second, practical assignment workshop of the program, at which it will be developing its production design by a new generation of European art directors, under the supervision of the most significant international professionals.
Winner: TRANSIT
Funders and Partners
