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MIDPOINT Focus CZ 2026

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Professional script and project development program created to offer unique support for Czech filmmakers with a feature film in development who believe in teamwork and the importance of script consultancy.

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Benefits

International feedback for local professionals

Program has been created to support the local audiovisual landscape by introducing Czech creatives to renowned international script consultants and providing producers with insights into the production aspects of their projects.

In 2026,  the program will be organized in partnership with the festival Finale Plzen Film Festival. MIDPOINT Intensive CZ also runs in collaboration with the Czech Film Center and their industry program Czech Film Springboard.  

For Czech feature film projects in development (writer+producer creative team, director optional) 

  • Unique opportunity to consult on projects along with esteemed international mentors, both script consultants and producer
  • Receive feedback from other filmmakers in the group
  • Strengthen the work of the creative team
  • Develop a new draft of the script
  • Introduction to eco-conscious storytelling as a thoughtful and optional lens for story development
  • Expanded networking opportunities thanks to partial overlap with MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2026 and its tutors and experts

Structure

Four-Day Intensive Experience

The program will select Czech creative teams of filmmakers (scriptwriters, directors, and producers) who are developing their feature fiction film projects. 
During the workshop, the teams will work on the creative development of the script; the workshop consists of group work within a small group of participants, accompanied by lectures.

Fee & how to apply

FEE
7 500 CZK per participant
The fee includes accommodation, board, and tuition during the residential workshop, and the accreditation for the Finale Plzen festival. Travel costs are NOT included.
OPEN CALL WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON

Application requirements

To apply for the program, please create an account on the MIDPOINT Visitor Page and follow the instructions within the submission form, where you can also find detailed information about application materials. 

Who can apply?

  • Creative teams of writers and/or directors and producers (2-3 participants per team)
  • Czech feature fiction & animation projects
  • Projects with a majority of Czech financing 

Success stories

Selection of Focus CZ successful alumni

A Certain Kind of Silence

A young au pair meets a radical family community while working abroad and gets lost in the new world presented to her.

Status: realised
MIDPOINT participants involved: Michal Hogenauer
Developed at: MIDPOINT Intensive CZ 2014
Genre: Drama

Bear with Us

A family has decided to sell their lovely cottage as none of them has visited it for some time. Yet it holds so many nostalgic memories that the mother suggests they all spend one last day there before the sale takes place.

Status: realised
MIDPOINT participants involved: Tomas Pavlicek
Developed at: MIDPOINT Intensive CZ 2015
Genre: Comedy

Absence of Closeness

Hedvika is struggling with the lack of maternal affection towards her newborn daughter. When she one night finds the diaries of her late father from the time of her own childhood, she decides to try to overcome the absence of closeness by reading them and by visiting the places she used to know as a child. The film is an intimate psychological drama taking place at the end of one hot summer.

Status: realised
MIDPOINT participants involved: Josef Tuka
Developed at: MIDPOINT Intensive CZ 2014
Genre: Drama

The Impossible Voyage

Animated docudrama about incredible adventures of one young astronomer, who set up on the road to achieve freedom for his nation.

Status: realised
MIDPOINT participants involved: Noro Drziak
Developed at: MIDPOINT Intensive CZ 2016
Genre: Drama

Schmitke

Schmitke is an old German wind turbine engineer. One day, he is dispatched to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix an old squeaking wind turbine. His colleague disappears and mysterious things begin to happen in the forest.

Status: realised
MIDPOINT participants involved: Tomas Koncinsky, Tomas Vach
Developed at: MIDPOINT Intensive CZ 2012
Genre: Comedy

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Contact

Did we forget something? Do not hesitate to ask

Kristyna Plhonova
Program Coordinator
kristyna.plhonova@midpoint-institute.eu

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