MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2013
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Organizational infromation
Dates
August 23 - September 1, 2013
Projects
By a Sharp Knife
Ľudovít has lost his son to a ruthless neo-Nazi attack. But, due to a failing in the Slovak legislation, the attackers are soon released and Ľudovít is faced with an absurd instance of injustice. He ...
Hungarians in Time of Peace
Being single – is a general phenomenon, both in its literal and figurative sense – and lately it has become very topical all over the civilisation. But this singleness is not definitely about looking ...
Magda H.
The subject of the screenplay is the professional and private life of Magda Lokvencová- Husáková, the first wife of Gustáv Husák. Her story has dramatic potencial because of several reasons. First it ...
Meek Swans
Alexander, a 25 year old student from Skopje, is enjoying his scholar life at the Film Academy in Prague, receiving a regular scholarship every month. Weed and laziness is what brings his life to a ...
OUT
East Slovakia, the village of Vojany. A crowd gathers in front of the local thermal power station: the owners of the factory are planning to close the power plant down, which would lead to hundreds ...
Slavonia
The end of the 1980s.Police inspector Khouri from Zagreb goes to a small town in Slavonia to help with the investigation into a series of teenage suicides. Three students from the local high school ...
Snowing!
KRISTINA (26) observes how her family is definitively falling into pieces after father's wedding with another woman. She doesn't fit to this new family so she's looking for stability at her mother's ...
The Big Business
Rudi is a 23year old shy, but ambitious greenhorn from the Ore-mountains. He is freshly weekend-trained as insurance salesman, nervous to sell insurances for the first time, because he can’t really ...
Woman on Top
Breslau 1949. A group of young children plays in post-war house ruins. Children find a bomb misfire. 7 year old Jureczek, sends his crying 5 year old sister Wanda home: „Girls don’t play with us!“. ...
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 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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Giovanni Robbiano
Italy
Born in Genova, Italy in 1958 is a screenwriter, director and film trainer. After graduating at the University of ...
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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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Experts
Meet MIDPOINT alumni—writers, script consultants, and development executives ready to bring stories to life!