EKRAN

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: After a presentation of the EKRAN program, a script (or treatment) analysis module and each participating project's pitch, the crucial element of this session will be the intense development of the projects. Special emphasis will be put on working with actors and creative set design.

Session 2: This session will be devoted to developing a more advanced version of the script and to seeking visualization strategies in order to ensure a truly personal tone. Scenes from the participants' projects with two or three actors will be produced and evaluated. Participants will concentrate on developing images and camera movements through storyboard sessions. A case study examining the relationship between biography and fiction as well as an introduction on the producing component will complete the session.

Session 3: Each team will have 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 pre-production of the scenes includes: directing strategies, choice of the location, props and light. For further script development, the main areas of interest will be: scene dramaturgy, character development and the visualisation of the tone of the film with regard to its future distribution. The session will end with a market-oriented day.

Between the sessions, the participants are expected to work on their treatments and scripts.

Participants and selection: 11 teams, each consisting of a director (or writer/director), a writer (or co-writer), a producer and (optionally) a director of photography. Two Swiss teams can participate. The selected candidates will be interviewed at the beginning of January 2011 by Wojciech Marczewski for the final selection.