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TFL Extended 2018 TFL Extended 2018 Over the years, TorinoFilmLab has TFL EXTENDED been contacted by organizations and individual professionals looking for customized workshops or immediate consultation in various areas: from fiction feature script to TV series development, from story editing to audience design and etc. We understood that it was necessary to create a new activity to complement our programmes offering punctual support combined with a flexible structure, able to cover the new areas and changing necessities of the industry. This is the seed that blossoms today as TFL Extended. In 2018, we have officially launched TFL Extended: a selection of intensive workshops addressed to teams of international professionals, who are willing to develop their skills through concrete work, under the guidance of high profile tutors. We have held four intensive residential workshops dedicated to TV Series, Script Development (two editions) and Creative Production respectively, with 59 projects and 83 participants from 35 countries. All workshops combined masterclasses, one to one meetings with international experts and group sessions, where participants can brainstorm with their colleagues and engage themselves in discussions. With TFL Extended we want to expand our network, create new partnerships and give the chance to more professionals to benefit on our pedagogical support. We hope you will enjoy reading the projects. 2 TFL EXTENDED SUPPORTED BY PROMOTED BY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 3 INDEX 6 TFL Extended 22 TFL Extended – TV Series – Script APRIL 2018 Development JUNE 2018 8 Canvas City Daria Keršić 24 12 Days and Nights George Ktistakis 9 Catapult Benny Drechsel 25 After the Brexit Peter Dörfler Laila Alina Reischer 10 Eutropia 26 CORA: Irene De Lucas Ramón The Saints of Boyacá Camilo Martín-Flórez 11 Ioan Ursuț Carla Fotea 27 Dolores Chico Teixeira 12 Lights Out Sabina Anzuategui David Rocchio 28 Double Happiness 13 Mapped Sebastian Mihăilescu Rachel Tillotson Andrei Epure 14 Megaplex 29 I Wish I Could Hibernate Hayk Matevosyan Zoljargal Purevdash 15 My Place in the World 30 Luna Park Mattia Temponi Florenc Papas Paolo Ferrara Dritan Huqi 16 Play Me 31 My Mad Madonna Slobodan Karajlovic Cinzia Bomoll Josella Porto 17 Purgatoria Dana Nechustan 32 Paris Syndrome Edward Stelder Kimie Tanaka Erina Suto 18 So You Better Run Yashar Alishenas 33 Slaughterman Rafael Antonaccio 19 The Origin Bernardo Antonaccio of Another World Selin Karli 34 The Blunder Alessandra Cardone 20 The Panda Daniel Carsenty 35 The Carjacker Oman Dhas 21 The Scheme Filippo Mazzotti 4 TFL EXTENDED 36 The Fertile Island 50 Letters to Strangers 64 TFL Extended Veronica Mengoli Valerie Wolf Gang Giulia Forcolini Ognjen Obradovi – Creative Production 37 The Promised Land 51 Marie NOVEMBER 2018 Shirin Rashidian Sidharth Mathawan 66 Don’t Gaze Long 38 The Return 52 No Man’s Land Into the Abyss José Hurtarte Arthur Ian Mohammadreza Farzad Karel Poupě 39 The Sea Needs to Heave 53 Open Sky Zain Duraie Ferran Mendoza Soler 67 Love Lowercase Javier Loarte Willy Biondani 40 The Sweet Bitterness Denise Gomes of Ripe Pomegranates 54 Pearl Tears Andrej Volkashin Lévon Minasian 68 Rotten Apples Ester Mann Tom Haines 41 True Love Anna Griffin Cristina Gómez 55 Road to Livramento Giuliana Monteiro 69 Son of the Ashes Beatriz Monteiro Dado Amaral Bruno Bettati 42 TFL Extended 56 Star Kristian Sejrbo Lidegaard – Script 70 The Deleted Development Maria Møller Kjeldgaard Sidharth Mathawan SEPTEMBER 2018 Gagan Mathawan 57 Stoning the Jasmine Zaina Deeb 44 Bleeding Time 71 The Penultimate Lucas Camargo de Barros Jonas Kærup Hjort 58 The 7th Day Rikke Tambo Andersen Julie Benegmos 45 Count to Ten Oleksandra Brovchenko 59 The Foreign Agent 72 The Quest Igor Savychenko Don Barak Natasha Markou JoAnn Hess 46 Dark Side of The Moon 60 The Invisible Mona Deeley Jan Van Dyck 73 You Can’t Stop the Sea Rowland E. Jobson 47 East of Death 61 Three Weeks Tansi Inayat Tommaso Mottola Under the Sea Martin Kuba 48 In a Pool of Ella Caroline Ingvarsson 62 Woman Without a Past Olivier Guerpillon Arman T. Riahi 49 In Our Image David Steiner 5 TFL Extended – TV Series TFL Extended – TV Series April 2018 Canvas City A drama series inspired by real events that tells the story of a survival on your own. It is 1943. The Nazis are Daria Keršić getting closer and a 16-year- old Sofija is one of the Writer/director • Croatia Yugoslavian refugees who have to flee. Her life is already Daria Keršić earned a Master’s degree in unbearable, with a secret Management, but she has been working as a pregnancy, a strict family and writer for 10 years. She is currently a student at an arranged engagement to the Master’s programme in Screenwriting at the the man she does not love. Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. They are going to El Shatt, Her fantasy Young Adult novel YA has been a camp in Egypt. There published in Croatia, and she is currently writing are many obstacles: poor the sequels, as well as adapting the story into a TV hygiene, disease epidemics, series. lack of food, foreign She worked as an editorial assistant, content writer, languages, and religions, a film critic, actress, script supervisor, and 1st AD for set of wartime rules. Nobody major Croatian production companies. is on her side. What is Sofija Daria attended numerous filmmaking and willing to do to survive? screenwriting workshops and schools, participated Whatever it takes. in many Young Cinephiles programmes at several film festivals, and she acted as a member of Young INTENTION Jury at the Pula Film Festival in 2017. She wrote and I have Croatian producers directed two short films and she is currently in pre- from Drugi Plan company, production for her next two short films. and we are looking for She is also in the early stage of developing a co-producers. feature script. CONTACT INFORMATION Daria Keršić [email protected] M +385 989113468 8 TFL EXTENDED Catapult Benny Drechsel Producer • Germany The King of Germany’s biggest amusement park Benny grew up in Munich where he did not finish his goes bankrupt. He sees education as a sculptor and stonemason. Afterward he was opportunities in Latin America working for the Bavarian State Opera and in a nice little but ends up in jail, turning cinema which showed only Italian and French films from the the family apart. 50s to late 70s that nobody wanted to see (apart from him and a bunch of people who today all work in the cinema industry). A true but bigger than In 1997 Benny came to Berlin to work as a post-production life story. supervisor and as an associate producer for documentary films and feature films. In 2002 he left Berlin for Barcelona, INTENTION but he came back to found Rohfilm Productions with his former colleague and friend Karsten Stöter in 2005. The project is in development, and we are looking for Since 2016 Benny is the sole owner and producer at Rohfilm. partners. Peter Dörfler Writer/director • Italy Peter attended the Ulm School of Design in Offenbach am Main, where he graduated in 1995 in Camera and Directing. He worked as DoP on several documentaries, feature films, and more than 60 music videos. In 2006 Peter had his debut in directing with the TV documentary film Der Panzerknacker, and in 2009 he directed his second documentary Catapult, which premiered in Perspektive Deutsches Kino at Berlinale 2009. His following work The Big Eden had its world premiere at Berlinale’s Panorama 2011 and was nominated for the German Film Prize Lola 2012. Peter Dörfler lives and works in Berlin. CONTACT INFORMATION Benny Drechsel Peter Dörfler [email protected] [email protected] M +49 1729488294 M +49 304408067 TFL EXTENDED – TV SERIES • APRIL 2018 9 Eutropia Paris, 2068. Massive suicide waves and sick leaves unfolded the worst crisis ever witnessed. Facing collapse, a costly scheme Irene De Lucas Ramón was implemented: Eutropia, Writer/director • Spain/France a crane system, monthly relocates every building in the Born in Valencia, Irene moved to Paris in 2005 city to create the illusion of for her doctoral thesis on early cinema’s pioneer change for hopeless citizens. Alice Guy. Her film training includes labs and Shifts only made things masterclasses in scriptwriting (Fernando Castets), worse. Human contact grows directing (Luis García Berlanga), and special effects rare, severe depression (Reyes Abades). still an endemic threat. Member of the EWA – European Women’s Antidepressants now Audiovisual Network and the CIMA – Spanish mandatory, citizens’ mood Association of Women Cineastes, she has written tracked and surveilled. and directed most of her works in France, such as Le Happiness becomes Jeu de Dames (Special Jury Award at Viña del Mar oppression. DIFF 2010, Best Short Film at Medina del Campo FF In the midst of despair, a 2009, Best Script at Luna de Islantilla FF 2009) and sheer community rises in La Marelle (Best Short Film on Civil & Political Rights rebellion with one purpose: at Valencia’s Justice Foundation 2012). Skip the Shifts. True change She has published a book on Buñuel’s film Los only comes from within. Olvidados (“Los Olvidados. La Violencia de los Excluidos”) and collaborates regularly with INTENTION publications on film analysis in newspapers and Bible of the series and first magazines. She is currently working on her second episode’s screenplay is book while developing scripts for a social sci-fi available. series and a drama feature. We are seeking producers. CONTACT INFORMATION Irene De Lucas Ramón [email protected] M +33 684995542 10 TFL EXTENDED Ioan Ursuț A Romanian artist tries to follow the life and crimes of a famous criminal through Romania, Italy and Sweden while getting caught up in a Carla Fotea web of political conspiracies Producer • Romania and mind games.