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MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2022
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Nine promising feature film projects
Participating projects are divided into 3 groups of 3, and development within each group is overseen by both a group leader and a script-consultant trainee.
A Flower is Not a Flower
Ana, an 11-year-old girl is abandoned by her parents in a Romanian orphanage for “irrecoverable” children. In this communist institution, children are treated like stacks of meat. Against the ...
Youth Eternal
A group of millennials are in an orgiastic, psychedelic music festival that takes place between the two waves of pandemic. Meanwhile their close friends Ieva and Alex have just stepped into ...
Dolphin
Anna’s plan to release her brilliant debut album is fully supported by her loving boyfriend Jan, and entirely killed by her fear of sharing her music with anyone. This deadlock is Anna’s greatest ...
My Best Friend’s Baby
Damir (33) and Sara (37) have found a home in each other and Stockholm’s queer community. Damir floats between nightclubs and still hasn’t come out to his family in Croatia. Sara, single and ...
My name is Lily
Lily is a Belgian living in Cyprus with a successful managerial career but a very difficult personal life. Born intersex, she still suffers the physical and emotional consequences of a forced ...
Side by Side
Four young millennials living their dynamic urban lives find themselves in a strangely magical forest without any technologies. Unbalanced Sebastian, his success-driven girlfriend Andrea, ...
Twentyseven
David and his three best friends from high school promised themselves that their friendship would last forever. After Hana gets married, Bažo moves abroad and Maja falls in love with an adventurous ...
The First Week of August
Ivana and Zoran Ler are a dysfunctional upper-middle class married couple raising their ten-year-old son David. On their way to summer vacation, David gets lost at a ferry port, prompting an ...
You Better BE
Boggie (28) and his mom Tanya (55) live in distant towns and meet every few months. Their relationship seems great but is built on many lies. Having grown up in a small Bulgarian conservative town, ...
Participants
The next generation of European film professionals
Script Consultant Trainees
Tutors
Inspirational professionals with a passion for sharing their experience
To ensure the most comprehensive approach to training, Feature Launch works with established and respected names from all over the European industry.
Producer Mentor
Danijel Hocevar
Slovenia
Film producer and CEO of Vertigo, a Ljubljana (Slovenia)-based production company with a distinctive track record and extensive working experience on international co-productions. Feature films ...
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Group Leaders
The Group Leaders oversee the development of projects in their group from the very beginning of the of the program through graduation. They also coach the script-consultant trainee trainee assigned to their group.
Pavel Jech
Czech Republic
Pavel Jech co-founded MIDPOINT in 2010 and has been active ever since as a group leader and speaker in its various ...
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Pavel Marek
Czech Republic
Pavel Marek is a graduate of the Faculty of Computer Engineering, Technical University and the Directing Department at ...
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Ivo Trajkov
Czech Republic/North Macedonia
Ivo Trajkov works as a director, film editor, screenwriter and story editor. He was born in Macedonia and graduated ...
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Script-consultant Trainee Mentor
The Script-consultant Trainee Mentor co-creates the training for the script-consultant trainees, ensuring that this training is implemented organically into the group work and that the collaborative set-up simulates a real-life industry environment. He meets regularly with the trainees, providing feedback and support.
Gyula Gazdag
United States
Gyula Gazdag is a director of film, theatre, and television productions. He has served as the Artistic Director of the Sundance Director‘s Lab since 1997. He was a creative advisor at the Binger ...
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Pitching Tutor
The Pitching Tutor prepares participants to present themselves and their projects, in general and for the final pitching session of the program.
Guest Tutors
These established professionals are usually present at at least one of the workshops to share their expertise.
Awards
KVIFF & MIDPOINT Development Award
A joint financial award of MIDPOINT and the Karlovy Vary IFF of 10,000 EUR for the best project of the Feature Launch 2022 program underlines the aim of the program itself – help emerging talents from Central and Eastern Europe to develop their film projects.
Awarded project: My Best Friend´s Baby
connecting cottbus Award
A selected project from MIDPOINT Feature Launch will be given the opportunity to present itself during the pitching event within the connecting cottbus co-production market. Participation will include individual consultations from international film professionals and one-on-one meetings with potential partners.
Awarded project: Dolphin
Rotterdam Lab Award
One producer will be handpicked to participate in the professional training program for producers, Rotterdam Lab, which takes place during the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Awarded producer: Magdalena Sztorc
Structure
Comprehensive program combining various formats
The nine creative teams, split into three groups, work under the guidance of internationally renowned and experienced tutors and in close collaboration with script-consultant trainees, who are involved in all parts of the program.
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Script-consultant TraineesPreparatory SeminarMarch 10-11, 2022 | Prague, Czech Republic
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All participantsWorkshop 1March 11-17, 2022 | Prague, Czech Republic
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All participantsWorkshop 2May 3-6, 2022 | Online
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All participantsWorkshop 3June 30 - July 7, 2022 | Prague and Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
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All participantsWorkshop 4November 22-25, 2022 | online
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ProducersCompany Time21 - 26 January 2023 | Trieste, Italy
Successful films
Selection of our successful alumni
Erasing Frank
1983. Frank, an angry kid from the streets with "no future". The state banned their music because their words are political. Frank escapes to a psychiatric ward where Hanna, a young enemy of the system, joins him.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Gabor Fabricius, Miklos Havas
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2018
Genre:
Drama
Zana
Dark and haunting psychological drama about the collision of modern day faith healers and post-war trauma of survivors in Kosovo.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Casey Cooper Johnson, Antoneta Kastrati
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2017, MIDPOINT Editing Room 2019
Genre:
Drama, mystery, thriller
Homeward
A father and a son from Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Nariman Aliev, Marysia Nikitiuk, Vladimir Yatsenko
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2018
Genre:
Drama
Inventory
Boris Robič is, as we like to say, an ordinary man. One evening he gets brutally attacked at his home. The police arrives, and open the investigation. There are no suspects, and it seems that no one could possibly be interested in shooting Boris. The police eventually suspend the investigation, convinced that the shooting was a mere coincidence. Riddled with doubt, he starts investigating on his own. While searching for the potential perpetrators, we follow a tragicomic path of a man who discovers that more people hate him than he would ever have thought possible and that the perceptions that he has of his own life are nothing but illusions.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Vlado Bulajic, Darko Sinko
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2017
Genre:
Drama
History of Love
Seventeen-year-old Iva is in the process of coming to terms with the death of her mother. Influenced by this deep personal loss and by the discovery that she didn’t know everything about her mom, the girl slowly immerses herself into a strange, almost dreamlike world far from reality.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Mitja Licen, Sonja Prosenc, Rok Secen
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2015
Genre:
Drama
References
Huge motivation boost and way to move you project to the next level
I feel like participating in the program was crucial to this project, and that working with mentors and colleagues was a great privilege.
Judita Gamulin
Director, Feature Launch 2021 Alumna
It helped our team have a clearer vision of what our movie is and should be.
Šimon Holý
Director, Feature Launch 2021 Alumnus
Such dedicated group leaders, trainers and guest speakers really boost the motivation of the team and help the project evolve to the next level!
Maario Masing
Producer, Feature Launch 2021 Alumnus
An all encompassing script and project development experience. Focused, detailed and full of energy.
Greer Ellison
Writer, Feature Launch 2021 Alumnus
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