MIDPOINT TV Launch 2017
Series
Archive
Organizational infromation
Dates and venues
Workshop 1
November 4 - 10, 2016
Banska Stiavnica, Slovak Republic
Workshop 2
April 21 - 27, 2017
Pilsen, Czech Republic (within Finale Plzen FF)
Workshop 3
August 11 - 17, 2017
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (within Sarajevo FF)
Projects
10 Bullets
Athens, present day: a place where financial inequality and social instability prevail. Two homeless people find themselves in the middle of a mafia shootout and steal a gun loaded with ten bullets ...
American Dream
1883 A. D., a small village in the very north of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Pretty young woman Dora, strong man Andrej, clever teenager Mišo and a stoic cow Rysuľa undertake a journey to America. ...
Fractures
In a tiny rural Icelandic fishing village, Kristin (45) and her daughter, Lilja (15), move in with her parents, as she faces divorce. A pragmatic doctor, Kristin soon finds herself far out of her ...
Nuts
Anton is in love with Vida. He doesn't know how to approach her. She just wants to focus on her work. He is a psychiatrist and she is a psychologist. Instead of just asking her out like a normal ...
Sleeping Dogs, Dancing Bears
Set in the 70s in Prague, Gamblers tell a story of a young man who shifts from caring influence of his father to tricky influence of an old gambler and ultimately learns to be an independent ...
THE TRIBE
Warsaw, 1918. Sonia, the black sheep of her crime family, returns home after the war to say goodbye to her dying mother. When she arrives, she discovers that she is late, her mother has already ...
The Midnight Shift
A small time criminal is assigned taxi driver duties on the midnight shift. He soon realizes that he is cursed to be a modern version of the ancient Greek mythical figure of the boatman; transporting ...
Participants
Tutors
Head of Studies
Alan Kingsberg
United States
Alan Kingsberg received his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where his film Minors won an Academy Award as the top student film in the US. His work in television includes writing an ACE Award ...
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Group Leaders
Rumle Hammerich
Denmark
Rumle Hammerich was born on November 16, 1954 in Copenhagen. In 1973, he left for New York where he attended the New ...
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Alan Kingsberg
United States
Alan Kingsberg received his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where his film Minors won an Academy Award as the ...
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Steve Matthews
United Kingdom
Steve Matthews is Banijay’s Content Partnerships Executive, where he acts as a key facilitator in the group’s ...
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Producer Tutor
Pitching Tutor
Moderator
Guest Tuors
Awards
HBO Europe Award 2017
Given out by the partner of the workshop, HBO Europe, the award will celebrate the Best TV Series Project of the MIDPOINT TV Launch 2017 program on August 16, 2017, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the Workshop 3.
THE WINNER IS
The Midnight Shift
C21 Media Award 2017
Given out by the partner of the workshop, C21 Media, the award will give a one-year subscription access to one of the MIDPOINT TV Launch 2017 participants on August 16, 2017, in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the Workshop 3.
THE WINNER IS
Vasilis Chrysanthopoulos (10 Bullets)
Funders and Partners
