We are very happy to announce the 9 new feature film projects and 2 script consultant trainees that have been selected for Feature Launch 2019.
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MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2019: Projects and Script Consultant Trainees Announced
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MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2019: Projects and Script Consultant Trainees Announced
December 12, 2018
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MIDPOINT´s leading feature-lenght film program Feature Launch is designed for filmmakers working on their first and second films. The participants, who consist of teams of writers, directors and producers, will experience a year-long development platform, which takes off in January in Trieste and runs till January 2020.
Moreover, two script consultant trainees will complete the group of selected participants in this long and inspirational journey.
MIDPOINT partners with Trieste Film Festival and Eastweek, Lithuanian Film Centre, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and When East Meets West, to make this possible.
Project Selection
9 projects have been selected from the countries of Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine.
Script consultant trainees are coming from Czech Republic and Latvia.
The projects and participants are:
A Sensitive Man / Czech Republic
Writer and director: Tomas Klein
Producer: Tomas Michalek
Floater / Romania
Writer and director: Alexandru Badea
Producer: Anda Ionescu
Grey Skies / Georgia
Writer and director: Konstantine Kalandadze
Producer: Elene Margvelashvili
Horia / Romania
Writer and director: Ana-Maria Comănescu
Producer: Carla Fotea
How is Katia? / Ukraine
Writer: Julia Gonchar
Directror: Christina Tynkevych
Producer: Veronika Stepanchuk
Private Decisions / Serbia
Writer: Vuk Boskovic
Director: Nikola Ljuca
Producer: Maja Ilic
Riviera / Greece
Writer and director: Orfeas Peretzis
Producer: Konstantinos Vassilaros
Some Birds / Hungary
Writer: Zsanett Kertész
Director: Daniel Hever
Producer: László Dreissiger
Traces / Croatia
Writer and director: Dubravka Turic
Producer: Ira Cecic
Script Consultant Trainees are:
Evzenie Brabcova / Czech Republic
Sanita Grina / Latvia
Selected projects will be presented in July 2019 at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival within the Works in Development – Feature Launch event.
After this presentation, the main financial KVIFF & MIDPOINT Development Award of 10.000 EUR will be awarded.
Find out more about the program´s awards here.
MIDPOINT Feature Launch is realized with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Czech Film Fund. It is presented in cooperation with Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, When East Meets West, Trieste Film Festival, the Lithuanian Film Centre, connecting cottbus, CineMart, Art Department Masterclass and Audiovisual Producers' Association. MIDPOINT operates under the auspices of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
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Traces
After the death of her father, Ana (41), a single woman with vitiligo disease, suddenly faces a series of strange synchronicities. Her anthropological research of ancient tombstone symbols ...
Floater
Ten year old Tudor is passed on from relative to relative during the four day wake of his deceased grandfather. While Tudor’s family is trying to protect him from experiencing his grandfather’s ...
Rattlesnakes
Nadja and Boris, former activist couple, have changed their lives completely. Nadja works as an assistant in a big corporation that is planning to buy a weapons factory and turn it into agricultural ...
A Sensitive Man
Elias (12) and his family are coming home to settle down after years of a nomadic lifestyle. Instead of an idyllic return, they find their mother’s father dying in his dirty flat. The mother ...
Horia
Horia, a 17-year-old with his head in the clouds, was born and raised in a Romanian village by his libertine father, Petrică. After graduating from high school, his heart is broken by the girl he ...
Grey Skies
1994, Georgia. Amidst the apathy of a post-war city, a teenage boy Goga (15) spends his days in the streets imitating criminals and bullying others. Goga seems to be destined to join the violent ...
Riviera
Alkistis (17) - an obsessed with the past teenage girl – is refusing to move on with her life after her mother decides to sell their family home on the Athens Riviera. They have been running it ...
Some Birds
Aging, lonesome Bela (78) is moved to a nursing home against his will by his son, where he must spend his days with an impulsive girl Zoe (17) who is sentenced to do social work. They both struggle ...
How is Katia?
Anna, a 35-year-old paramedic, lives a modest Kyiv life with her 10-year old daughter Katia. One morning Anna receives a call: Katia has been hit by a car. Behind the wheel is Marina – the daughter ...
