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Events
Events 2010
 Babylon
www.babylon-film.eu
BABYLON EUROPE workshops:
Script Development, Rotterdam, 2-5 February 2010;
Introduction to the Market and Co-production, Cannes, 15-20 May, 2010
(Funded by Skillset/UK Film Council, Screen East (EEDA), British Council, Mira Media, Vienna Film Fund, Goethe Institut, Okto)
BABYLON INTERNATIONAL workshops:
Script Development, Berlin, 16-20 February 2010;
Production Lab, Abuja, Nigeria, 26 April-6 May 2010
(Funded by MEDIA International, Nigerian Film Corporation)
Writers for Europe, Workshop at the DFFB Berlin, April 2010
Events Review
Babylon
www.babylon-film.eu
BABYLON workshops 2007-2009:
Pan-European feature film development programme for migrant and diasporic filmmakers.
(Funded by CNC, British Council, UK Film Council, Goethe Institut, Dutch Film Fund, Vienna Film Fund, FFA)
CRASSH
Occasional Series of public screenings and Q&As with international film directors/screenwriters, 2006-09 at Cambridge University's Centre for Research into the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Previous guests have included: Mitko Panov (Macedonia), Kujtim Cashku (Albania), Fred Breinersdorfer (Germany).
SOURCES 2 2007.
Scenario were UK co-producers of this intensive one-week Script Development Workshop
at historic Trinity Hall in Cambridge, co-funded by the EU's MEDIA Programme, 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.
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)
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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
For Scenario’s consultancy profile...
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