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Babylon
www.babylon-film.eu

Scenario's pan-european programme for minority film makers in Rotterdam 26-29 January 2009

Lectures

Fiona Howe on producing at "The Cinema Business" at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse 5 March 2009 for Cambridge Film Consortium.

Gareth Jones at the Prix Europa's Languages Through Lenses Short-Film Competition "Multi-Lingualism and International Script Development" 19 October 2008.
http://ec.europa.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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