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.
MIDPOINT Focus CZ 2025
Features
Upcoming
Projekty
Upcoming Czech feature films in development
A Stone in a Shoe
I have been living in Prague for four years, raising my daughter Dunja while struggling to build a career in architecture. Life seemed to find balance when I married Harun, a crane operator who ...
Crystals
Fifteen-year-old Jana struggles with severe psychological problems and finds peace only with the horses she cares for at her part-time job. During the summer holidays, her best friend Karolína ...
Dead Mountain
In a Czech village under a NATO radar, teen Lukas tries to impress Céline, the general’s daughter, with a drone. It crashes inside the base. Soldiers question him, but Jenda’s video sparks rumors of ...
Now and After
Now and After follows 6 main characters in 3 interconnected storylines told through parallel montage. PAVEL (22) is an ambitious young policeman annoyed by his laid-back superior MICHAL (55) who is ...
Účastníci
Lektori
Inspirational professionals with a passion for sharing their experience
Script Consultant, Group Leader
Franz Rodenkirchen
Germany
Franz Rodenkirchen is a Berlin-based independent script consultant, teacher and tutor in workshops and individual project development. Together with Françoise von Roy he founded Script Circle in ...
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Sustainability expert
Zsofia Szemeredy
Hungary, UK
Zsófia Szemeredy works closely with film and TV productions to embed sustainability into the heart of storytelling and strategically, with recent projects including Hijack, Alien: Romulus, Poor ...
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Benefits
International feedback for local professionals
This 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 2025 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 teams of a writer and a producer (and possibly a director) who are developing a Czech feature film
- 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 2025 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.
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WorkshopSeptember 23-26, 2025 | Plzen, Czech Republic (within Finale Plzen Film Festival)
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Online follow-up consultationsNovember-December 2025 | online
Individual online consultation with the workshop tutor to discuss a new draft of the script or treatment, developed based on the tutor’s notes and post-workshop assignments.
SUCCESSFUL MIDPOINT FOCUS CZ FILMS
Selection of our 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
Little Man
There was house in a cave under little hill and that was a place where Little Man lived. He was quite well there until one night - when he had a mysterious dream. He dreamed about a house with provoking sign above its door: "YOU WILL FIND HERE WHAT YOU MISS". He had to go for a dangerous journey to find out what he was missing. He had to complete many difficult quests, overcome his fears and above all, keep moving forward no matter what was happening to him! And did he finally reached the place he searched for? And what did he find there?
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Radek Beran, Lumir Tucek
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Intensive CZ 2015
Genre:
Puppet Film
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
References
I enjoyed MIDPOINT very much and the program greatly enriched not only me personally but also my film project. I definitely want to participate next time with another script! I am looking forward to it!
David Sis
Writer, MIDPOINT Intensive CZ 2024, Alumnus
I'm very happy that our project took part in Midpoint intensive workshop. It was a great oppirtunity to meet interresting people and share our ideas with our collegues. Their feedback was very helpful and led us to the core of our story.
Tomas Polensky
Director, Writer, MIDPOINT Intensive CZ 2024, Alumnus
I had a nice time at the MIDPOINT Intensive CZ 2024. It's a great opportunity to network and move the project – in the fragile stage of development – forward.
Katerina Dvorakova
Producer, MIDPOINT Intensive CZ 2024, Alumna
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FAQs
You may ask...
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I am just a writer and/or director, and do not have a producer attached to the project yet. Can I apply?
Unfortunately not. The program is designed to develop a project (not only script) and a strong creative team through teamwork, which is why a writer and producer must always participate together.
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Do I have to be fluent in English?
Because of the international tutors, the program is conducted in English. For instruction, you'll need to write and speak in English at least an intermediate level. Your grammar doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll need to be able to communicate your ideas effectively.
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Is this workshop connected to the Czech Film Springboard? Can I apply to both?
Czech Film Springboard and MIDPOINT Intensive CZ run in collaboration and are designed to support Czech film feature projects in development.
It is possible to apply to both; however, Czech Film Springboard is focused on projects in the later stages of development.
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