Pitch
A platform to exchange experiences, methodologies and policies, to create a network of screenwriting trainers, script consultants and training programme managers, to develop and disseminate creative tools and strategies.
How relevant are current Screenwriters' Training and Development Programs within the European Film Industry?
How relevant are current Screenwriters' Training and Development Programs within the European Film Industry?
Script development is obviously closer to alchemy than to cooking with recipes. It is difficult to analyze this creative process, but important to examine, after 15 years of investment and practice in European screenwriters' training and development programs, whether or not the skills and methodologies that are being transferred in these programs are still relevant. We need to look at this question by taking into account the evolution and changes in production, markets, and in professional practice in the film industry across Europe now.
TEST is a program intended to improve the quality and relevance of training and development programs for producing screenplays in Europe, as proposed by government sponsored and/or independent institutions and/or by the film industry itself.
The TEST SEMINAR 2006 is a 2-day debate to challenge the status quo in this field, and to define new training parameters, tools and strategies for the creative film development of marketable European feature film.
Three development initiatives, strictly project-based and emphasizing the interaction between producer and writer (-director), will be proposed as case studies to support the debate: FactFiction Lab - PAL London, P.R.I.M.E - transFOCAL Berlin, Slingshot London
The detailed schedule of the Seminar can be found under > www.test-online.org
Information & Applications
PAL, 6 Flitcroft Street, UK-London WC2H 8DJ
Tel. 0044 20 7240 8040/Fax 0044 20 7240 8540
office@pallabs.org
TEST is a program intended to improve the quality and relevance of training and development programs for producing screenplays in Europe, as proposed by government sponsored and/or independent institutions and/or by the film industry itself.
The TEST SEMINAR 2006 is a 2-day debate to challenge the status quo in this field, and to define new training parameters, tools and strategies for the creative film development of marketable European feature film.
Three development initiatives, strictly project-based and emphasizing the interaction between producer and writer (-director), will be proposed as case studies to support the debate: FactFiction Lab - PAL London, P.R.I.M.E - transFOCAL Berlin, Slingshot London
The detailed schedule of the Seminar can be found under > www.test-online.org
Information & Applications
PAL, 6 Flitcroft Street, UK-London WC2H 8DJ
Tel. 0044 20 7240 8040/Fax 0044 20 7240 8540
office@pallabs.org
Speakers
For FactFiction Lab
Ruth Caleb, Producer BBC Drama, tbc (London)
Gavin MacFadyen, Documentary Filmmaker and Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, and FactFiction Lab Mentor (London)
Jenny Thompson, PAL FactFiction Lab Director (London)
For P.R.I.M.E
Frank Stehling, Project Director (Berlin)
Donat Keusch, Project Co-Developer (Berlin)
Producer participant in the first P.R.I.M.E edition
For SLINGSHOTArvind Ethan David, Producer and Managing Director (London)
Rachel Connors, Producer (London)
Writer-director participant in the first Slingshot Lab
Jonathan Olsberg, Audiovisual Strategic Consultant, Author of the ‹Study of Continuous Training for Audiovisual Professionals in 32 European Countries›
Moderator
Antoine Jaccoud, theater and screenwriter, script doctor (Lausanne)
For FactFiction Lab
Ruth Caleb, Producer BBC Drama, tbc (London)
Gavin MacFadyen, Documentary Filmmaker and Director of the Centre for Investigative Journalism, and FactFiction Lab Mentor (London)
Jenny Thompson, PAL FactFiction Lab Director (London)
For P.R.I.M.E
Frank Stehling, Project Director (Berlin)
Donat Keusch, Project Co-Developer (Berlin)
Producer participant in the first P.R.I.M.E edition
For SLINGSHOTArvind Ethan David, Producer and Managing Director (London)
Rachel Connors, Producer (London)
Writer-director participant in the first Slingshot Lab
Jonathan Olsberg, Audiovisual Strategic Consultant, Author of the ‹Study of Continuous Training for Audiovisual Professionals in 32 European Countries›
Moderator
Antoine Jaccoud, theater and screenwriter, script doctor (Lausanne)
