Open call for MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2020
MIDPOINT Feature Launch is a unique training and networking platform for emerging talents from Central and Eastern Europe.
Feature Launch / Project Development Training
The project development training focuses on teams of writers, directors, and producers who are developing their first or second feature films.
Nine selected feature film projects go through an intensive
4-module program that enables them to work closely on the script and project development and provides them with financing and co-production opportunities.
The program consists of 2 residential workshops; project showcase takes place within Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with the KVIFF & MIDPOINT Development Award of 10.000 EUR for the best project and follow-up module for participating producers is organized within
When East Meets West Co-production Market.
Feature Launch / Script Consultant Training
The development process that the Feature Launch projects go through is used as a platform to train three attending script consultant trainees, who are studying for their future careers as professional script consultants.
Dates and venues
Workshop 1 / January 15-22, 2020 / Trieste, Italy
Workshop 2 / April 2020 / Slovakia
Workshop 3 / June 2020 / Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
Feature Launch Spotlight (follow-up module) / January 2021 / Trieste, Italy
Program accepts
PROJECTS – first or second feature films (teams of writers, and/or directors and producers)
SCRIPT CONSULTANT TRAINEES – script consultants, writers, editors, creative producers and other film professionals (with some experience in story-editing) with the ambition of becoming script consultants
Deadlines
Project Development Training / September 13, 2019
Script Consultant Training / September 27, 2019
You can find more information about MIDPOINT Feature Launch here.
You can access the application form here.
MIDPOINT Feature Launch is realized with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Czech Film Fund. It is presented in cooperation with Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, When East Meets West, Trieste Film Festival, the connecting cottbus, CineMart, Art Department Masterclass and Audiovisual Producers' Association. MIDPOINT operates under the auspices of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
