One of MIDPOINT’s programs dedicated to TV series writing and development, the Writers’ Room, is a sidebar module of the project-based 9-months long TV Launch and is designed to support the training of specialized skills and offer practical knowledge about the organization of a writers’ room.
MIDPOINT Writers' Room 2019
Series
Archive
Organizational information
The one-off event runs in 4 training days and consists of lectures, plotting and writing training, and simulation of a writers’ room. The program runs in the English language.
Dates and venues
November 4 - 9, 2019
Prague, Czech Republic
Who is it for?
- writers
- creative producers with some experience in writing and the ambition of becoming creators/showrunners
Eligible countries
all Europe (primary focus on Central and Eastern Europe)
Contact person
Katarina Tomkova
Program Coordinator
katarina.tomkova@midpoint-institute.eu
"The MIDPOINT Writer's Room is a rare professional experience not easily acquired. It is run on a very high level, led by leading professionals in the business. Essential for anyone looking to write a TV series."
Sarit Zadok
Writer, Writers' Room 2020 alumna
Participants
Tutors
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 became a Creative Executive at the Budapest office of HBO Europe in 2010. In 2019, ...
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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 Los Angeles-based division focused on development for the U.S., Canadian, and ...
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Methodology
The single participants, entering the program as talents looking into enhancing their craft and writing skills, will get acquainted with the structure, hierarchy and processes running in a writers’ room from two different perspectives: the American and the European. Theoretical lectures and plotting exercises will be offered alongside the simulation.
The program’s graduates will acquire knowledge and skills connected to the processes occurring during TV series writing, such as creative teamwork, joint brainstorming, and creating or following one unified narrative voice and vision as well as the structure of a TV series episode itself.
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