EKRAN is a European training program focusing on the creative pre-production process, as based on shooting practice. Group and individual work will be supervised by highly professional filmmakers.
Session 1: The presentation of the program is followed by each participating project’s pitch, treatment group analysis, treatment or script individual analysis. The crucial element of this session is the intense development of the projects. Special emphasis is put on working with actors and preparation for shooting.
Session 2: This session is devoted to developing a more advanced version of the treatment or script and to seeking visualization strategies in order to ensure a truly personal tone. Participants develop images and camera movements through storyboard sessions. The pre-production of the scenes include directing strategies, choice of the location, props and light. Each team has the opportunity to invite a director of photography and two actors from its native country to produce a scene from the script (in their native language). The session also provides the market-oriented expertise to participants’ projects.
Follow-up session (optional): After six months, the participants come back for the final consultancy and setting up the directions for the advanced draft development. The summary of the projects’ development and deep insight into their final shape is given to the participants by two tutors whereafter they enter the production phase.
Between the sessions, the participants are expected to work on their treatments and scripts.
Wojciech Marczewski, Andrzej Wajda (Poland), Mogens Rukov (Denmark), Ildiko Enyedi (Hungary), Antoine Jaccoud (Switzerland), Udayan Prasad, Marilyn Milgrom, Witold Stok, Jan Fleicher, Nigel Orrillard (England), Roshanak Behesht Nedjad (Germany)
In addition, three "Godfathers" - Andrzej Wajda, Volker Schlöndorff and Alexander Sokurow - will act as masters of visual grammar
