MIDPOINT Intensive Bucharest is a script development program open to creative teams of filmmakers (scriptwriter, director, and producer).
The three-day program is intended for filmmakers coming primarily from Romania who are developing their short fiction film projects.
MIDPOINT Intensive Bucharest 2019
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Organizational information
During the workshop, the teams will work on the creative development of the script. The workshop consists of individual consultations led by Hungarian writer, director and script editor Csaba Bollok.
The workshop takes place within and in collaboration with Cinemaiubit International Student Film Festival in Bucharest.
Dates and venues
December 5 - 8, 2019
Bucharest, Romania
Who is it for?
- teams of writers and directors (producers optional)
- film students and fresh film school alumni
This workshop is primarily open to all the residents of Romania.
The selection might prioritize teams including students or alumni of UNATC.
Eligible countries
- Romania
- international teams are also encouraged as long as at least one member of the team is a student or alumnus/alumna of UNATC
Projects
Fragmentations
FRAGMENTATIONS is the story of two sisters, Cătălina (14 years old) and Amalia (6 years old), whose mother returns to the country during summer to take Amalia with her to Italy, where she and their ...
Good Luck
Mircea leaves the hospital in utter shock after the doctors announce him that his life can no longer be saved. He carries around a briefcase containing his lifetime savings that he decides to spend ...
Nisip
The film opens with a scene of a farewell party between young villagers. Nisip is the only one who will not go to study in the city, but continue his life in the wilderness of the Danube Delta. From ...
The Inheritance
Estranged brothers Toni and Victor are reunited by the death of their grandma and the inheritance they have to split. They decided to sell the house and secured a down payment from a preliminary ...
MIDPOINT participants:
Mihnea Rares Hantiu
The Locationist
After her life hit the ground, a middle-aged woman finds a fragile way to survive as a locationist in low-budget film productions, a humbling and tough job that makes her world collide with a ...
Vincent V
Team of filmmakers show up in the mountain cabin to shoot Vincent's promotional video for the trekking guide so he can attract more clients. Friendly Vincent welcomes them, dressed in colourful ...
MIDPOINT participants:
Norbert Fodor
Participants
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Group Leader
Csaba Bollok
Hungary
Graduated as film and television director at the Hungarian Academy of Film and Drama in 1994, studied filmmaking in the United States, made shorts at the legendary Béla Balázs Stúdió in the 1990’s. ...
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Meet MIDPOINT alumni—writers, script consultants, and development executives ready to bring stories to life!