The program designed by When East Meets West in collaboration with MIDPOINT is announcing its first-ever participants. 

MIDPOINT Cold Open targets independent producers, with a background in feature film producing, aspiring to shift to high quality television content and offers a diverse selection of participating countries. 

The program runs within When East Meets West 2020 in Trieste, Italy and will be led by tutors Gabor Krigler (HU), Steve Matthews (UK), Nebojsa Taraba (HR) and Meinholf Zurhorst (DE). 

For the 3-day workshop, 10 European producers have been selected. 

And who are they?

Karin Berghammer / Austria 

Claudia Schröter / Germany 

Eva Blondiau / Germany 

Johannes Jancke / Germany 

Vasilis Chrysanthopoulos / Greece

Luigi Giuseppe Chimienti / Italy

Nadia Trevisan / Italy 

Radu Stancu / Romania 

Dragana Jovovic / Serbia 

Natalia Libet / Ukraine 

Within the program, two lectures will be open to When East Meets West guests: 

Gabor Krigler: The Idea to Spawn a Thousand Stories (And How to Run With It)

Nebojsa Taraba: How to Switch from Sprint to Marathon

For more information about the program, its participants and lectures, click here.

MIDPOINT Cold Open is realized in partnership with When East Meets West. MIDPOINT operates under the auspices of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.