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MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2015

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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 ...
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Halves

Synopsis of this project is not available.
MIDPOINT participants: Ali MosaffaJordi NiuboAli Mosaffa
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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 ...
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Il Boemo

Synopsis of this project is not available.
MIDPOINT participants: Jan Macola
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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 ...
MIDPOINT participants: Agon UkaYll UkaNorika Sefa
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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. ...
MIDPOINT participants: Marija DimitrovaAna Jakimska
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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
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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 ...
MIDPOINT participants: Dimitar BanovMarek NovakDimitar Banov
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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 ...
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Shadows Over Prague

Synopsis of this project is not available.
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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 ...
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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 ...
MIDPOINT participants: Nan ZhaoTereza ZemanovaAnna Bobrekova
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The Black Pin

Synopsis of this project is not available.
MIDPOINT participants: Ivan MarinovicIvan Marinovic
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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 ...
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Too Close

Synopsis of this project is not available.
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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 / North Macedonia  
Ivo Trajkov is a director, producer, film editor, screenwriter and story editor. He was born in Skopje, Macedonia and ...
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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

Amra Baksic Camo
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
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Gabriele Brunnenmeyer
Germany  
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Martin Daniel
United States  
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Rebekka Garrido
Germany  
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Gyula Gazdag
United States  
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Pavel Strnad
Czech Republic  
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Experts

Darko Basheski
North Macedonia  
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Orsolya Benko
Hungary  
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Pavel Bercik
Czech Republic  
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Helena Bezdek Frankova
Czech Republic  
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Jana Cernik
Germany  
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Matthieu Darras
Italy  
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Satu Elo
Luxembourg  
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Rebekka Garrido
Germany  
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Gyula Gazdag
United States  
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Alessandro Gropplero
Italy  
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Anna Gudkova
Russia  
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Pavla Janouskova Kubeckova
Czech Republic  
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Zora Jaurova
Slovakia  
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Arne Kohlweyer
Germany  
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Marta Lamperova
Slovakia  
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Marge Liiske
Estonia  
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Jan Macola
Czech Republic  
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Premysl Martinek
Slovakia  
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Alena Mullerova
Czech Republic  
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Mikulas Novotny
Czech Republic  
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Tereza Polachova
Czech Republic  
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Matyas Prikler
Slovakia  
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Radim Prochazka
Czech Republic  
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Giovanni Robbiano
Italy  
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Pavel Strnad
Czech Republic  
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Ifat Tubi
Israel  
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Stine Wangler
Germany  
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Eva Zabezsinszkij
Hungary  
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