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Babylon
www.babylon-film.eu

Scenario's pan-european programme for minority film makers at events in London and Rotterdam:

11th January Producer Basics at Focus West, London W12. 1-day seminar on how to be a producer. See www.focuswest.co.uk

12th January Evening screening with director of Abdelkrim Bahloul’s “The Assasinated Sun” at the Ciné Lumière.

13th January Conference: The Industrial Context of Migrant and Diasporic Cinema at Senate House, University of London. The Babylon programme and its relation to the European film industry. See www.migrantcinema.net

18th January Producing film in Europe at Focus West, London W12. 1-day seminar on the European audio-visual scene. See www.focuswest.co.uk

28th-31st January Feature Film Project Development Workshop in Rotterdam. See www.babylon-film.eu

SOURCES 2 Script Development Workshop March 2007. Scenario were the co-producers of this intensive one-week MEDIA-supported script development workshop at historic Trinity Hall in Cambridge, co-funded by University of Cambridge's Newton Trust, Screen East and CRASSH, in association with University of Cambridge's Screen Media Group.

East-West Crossings – 2004/5
Co-produced with initiating producers Scripthouse Berlin and funded by IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), MMB (Medienboard Brandenburg) and the British Council, this series of conferences and workshops across the Balkans created a pan-European think tank dealing with film development, marketing, distribution and media law in the region of South East Europe.

Events included conferences at Kluj (Romania); Belgrade (Serbia & Montenegro; Tirana (Albania); Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina); and Berlin.

Howe and Jones gave keynote lectures and moderated panel discussions in Belgrade (UK Film Production/the EU Media Programme); Sofia (Scripts Crossing Borders/European Co-production) and Sarajevo (TV Production in South-East Europe/Film Sales, Distribution and Broadcast Acquisitions).

Seminar formats

We offer consultancy to larger groups, in the form of training workshops, seminars and lectures. These can be arranged to a specification agreed in advance, or modelled on certain workshop formats already developed by Scenario, depending on client’s needs.

Workshops:

for writer/director/producer teams working together to develop a specific film project in creative collaboration (Example: EU Media Plus’s SOURCES)

Seminars:

for professionals and students training in screenwriting and film production, on the theory and practice of the industry, using case studies and analysis of film excerpts (Example: DFFB; La Fémis, Paris; Marubi Film School, Tirana)

Lectures:

for larger groups of film students bringing academic theory to bear on current media practice (Example: Universities of Cambridge, Sussex, Oklahoma) .

Current formats:

• Raising Cain – specially created for development producers, script editors and script consultants on how to liberate the best in writers and their scripts.
  
  
• Prose to Screen – adapting for the screen. Success or disaster?
  
  
• Elements of Dramaturgy – creative analysis of film dramaturgy from historical theory to contemporary practice.
  
  
• Make Me a Series! - for television producers and writers, from initial concept through to press launch.
  
  
• Genre in Feature Film – the function of genre in bringing story to an audience.
  
  
• Writing for European Film and Television – state of the art and the business around Europe in the light of national screen traditions.
  
  
• A Screenwriter’s Tale – the life of a writer in the film world.
  
  
• Historical Film – an adventure into the past through film.
  
  
  ...and others available on request.

Conferences and Special Projects

Scenario acts as producer and co-producer of British and European media events and conferences.
Fiona Howe and Gareth Jones are also available as moderators or contributors.

Consultancy Profile

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