MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2015
Features
Archive
Organizational infromation
Dates and venues
Workshop 1
June 20 - 26, 2015
Trencianske Teplice, Slovak Republic
Workshop 2:
August 22 - 29, 2015
Ponesice, Czech Republic
Projects
A Party Beneath a Stone Wall
The Party Beneath a Stone Wall is the story of a couple, Skúli and Ragna, who obviously still love and desire one another but have let their material aspirations run their lives. Instead of drawing ...
Eloe
Family
Halves
Synopsis of this project is not available.
History of Love
Seventeen-year-old Iva is in the process of coming to terms with the death of her mother. Influenced by this deep personal loss and by the discovery that she didn’t know everything about her mom, the ...
Looking for Venera
Skopje. Airport. A taxi-driver DIMO (35) is waiting to get some passengers. ARTAN (30) approaches Dimo and ask to bring him to the border with Kosovo. They spend a great time together. Artan tells ...
Midnight Train
The story takes place in three different cities and follows the lives of three different women during the period of one year. Violeta, who is pregnant, gives birth at the seventh month of pregnancy. ...
Midnight Yangon
The Sule pagoda is lit bright in mercury light but the streets of Yangon are deeply dark. The sex worker ‘Cherry’, 20, born fatherless is sick because of her fatherless pregnancy. Her mother ‘Hnin ...
MIDPOINT participants:
Aung Min
Nothing to Worry About
After a crazy party at his best friend’s house, young student Marko (23), happily driving on his way home accidentally runs over a little Roma girl near the Roma settlement Shutka in Skopje. The ...
Present Progressive
A husband, a wife and their Arab illegal worker, live happily ever after in a dreamy mansion surrounded by blooming gardens, in a bourgeois suburb. The triangle turns dangerous and poisonous as time ...
Shadows Over Prague
Synopsis of this project is not available.
Tales of the Wind
Everyday after school Jann, Irma, Ante and Spook run into the woods among the wild waste. Far away from the eyes and problems of the adult world, they have found room for their games and a spot to ...
Thalia
Former dancer, now stabilized cancer patient Thalia (15) is talented make-up artist. Sudden success of her youtube channel with tutorials makes her famous and she gets a chance to try working among ...
The Black Pin
Synopsis of this project is not available.
To Be Renovated
BUDA (44) works as a court bailiff: he seizes valuables and evicts people from their homes. He is perfect in his job. Buda is divorced and sees his son, ARON (18) only on the weekends. One day, he ...
Too Close
Synopsis of this project is not available.
Participants
Tutors
Head of Studies
Pavel Jech
Czech Republic
Pavel Jech co-founded MIDPOINT in 2010 and has been active ever since as a group leader and speaker in its various programs. He also has worked as a trainer at development labs such as Sundance ...
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Group Leaders
Csaba Bollok
Hungary
Graduated as film and television director at the Hungarian Academy of Film and Drama in 1994, studied filmmaking in ...
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Pavel Jech
Czech Republic
Pavel Jech co-founded MIDPOINT in 2010 and has been active ever since as a group leader and speaker in its various ...
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Pavel Marek
Czech Republic
Pavel Marek is a graduate of the Faculty of Computer Engineering, Technical University and the Directing Department at ...
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Ivo Trajkov
Czech Republic
Ivo Trajkov works as a director, film editor, screenwriter and story editor. He was born in Macedonia and graduated ...
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Brendan Noel Ward
United States
Brendan N. Ward’s career in film and television balances writing and producing with teaching a new generation of ...
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Guest Tutors
Experts
Meet MIDPOINT alumni—writers, script consultants, and development executives ready to bring stories to life!