TFL Fanzine #2 July 2021 Sure? YES NO You might change You like cinema that your mind after much that you are having watched some currently working on something? Or not yet? Boost TFL FILMS your career with the YES NO training opportunities SEE PAGE 8-9 of TFL such as… SCRIPTLAB Cool. STORY Are you in the mood We feel you. But for a long-term EDITING we do have exactly what you need: commitment? and YES NO SERIESLAB TFL NEXT WRITERS and ROOM We have TFL two options for you: SEE PAGE 3 EXTENDED

SCRIPTLAB SEE PAGE 4 and Nice. We look for someone like you FEATURELAB for our annual programmes. Is your It is a TV series, right? SEE PAGE 3 current project Check out a feature film? SERIESLAB YES NO Well, three actually! SEE PAGE 3 If you are Italian or French that’s for you: Are you still ALPI in the middle of Need a hand with FILM LAB the process? the final touches? Hint: $$. Check SEE PAGE 5 YES NO TFL FUNDS

SEE PAGE 6 That’s a wrap Have a look at the (kind of) TFL MEETING EVENT

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2 ScriptLab FeatureLab The flagship TFL screenwriting When a film gets more and more programme open to both emerging real. This is the programme for creative talents and experienced filmmakers. teams working on the director’s 1st or Starting at an early stage of development, 2nd feature film projects, at an advanced your project will – by the end of the year development stage. By joining you – turn into a first or second draft of the will have the chance to work with script. The projects selected are divided experts from the fields of directing, into small groups, where they have the cinematography, sound, post-production, chance to share the creative stage of the but also from production, financing, writing process with the other filmmakers. marketing & sales, and audience engagement. A big plus: FeatureLab Each group is guided by an experienced projects will have the chance to compete tutor and paired with a Story Editor trainee, for the TFL Production Awards a film professional trained in providing and collateral prizes supporting the constructive feedback, that will work in production process. close collaboration with the filmmakers to help them find the core of their story. NEXT CALL: 20TH OCTOBER 2021 – 17TH JANUARY 2022 NEXT CALL: 20TH JULY – 1ST OCTOBER 2021 SeriesLab Whether you are a scriptwriter, director or producer, you just need to be into the TV Series field. This programme looks for fiction TV series projects at an early development stage. Bring your project and work on the creation of the concept: from generating ideas and structuring the material, up to a final pitch in front of major key players during a TV industry event. SeriesLab 2022 will also host a real Writers’ Room where 8 writers will experience the development of an original TV series script, guided by an experienced scriptwriter and a script editor.

NEXT CALL: 11TH OCTOBER 2021 – 6TH JANUARY 2022

3 Dates may be subject to change You can consider TFL Next Carefully crafted workshops help film professionals to move forward a joyful long-distance with their projects. They represent relationship, a short but a unique opportunity to enhance, intense online version of share and test your ideas with peers our annual programmes. and high-level international tutors. TFL Extended is more of a Multiple workshops & multiple topics, across the year. romantic getaway, where you briefly meet with other film professionals, face to face.

CALLS CURRENTLY OPEN TFL Extended – Film REGISTRATIONS UNTIL 12TH JULY 2021

SESSIONS ON 20TH-26TH SEPTEMBER 2021, MADRID () TFL Extended – ProcidaLab, a writing residency REGISTRATIONS UNTIL 20TH JULY 2021

SESSIONS ON 6TH-12TH SEPTEMBER 2021, PROCIDA () TFL Extended – Story Editing REGISTRATIONS UNTIL 6TH AUGUST 2021

SESSIONS ON 20TH-26TH SEPTEMBER 2021, MADRID (SPAIN) TFL Next – Audience Design REGISTRATIONS UNTIL 6TH AUGUST 2021

SESSIONS ON 18TH-22ND OCTOBER 2021 AND BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER, ONLINE

4 Dates may be subject to change Our cross-border Alpi Film Lab workshops new entry realised take place in the Alpine together with region from side to side, between Turin and Annecy, Annecy Cinéma Italien. bringing the participants This Italian-French to experience a simulation initiative focusing on of international co-production involves co-productions while emerging producers developing feature film and directors with an projects. international gaze. The ultimate goal of the programme is to enhance the cross-border film industry, strengthening its competitiveness on the international market.

NEXT CALL FROM 15TH DECEMBER 2021 UNTIL 15TH FEBRUARY 2022

5 Dates may be subject to change Co-Production Tailor-made consultancies and an award of 50.000 € Fund are allocated to a producer based in one of the It targets feature countries participating in films by experienced the Media sub-programme, filmmakers – from the to bolster the realisation of 3rd onward – involving the project.

European and non- NEW CALL WILL OPEN European production IN SPRING 2022 companies.

Audience Every year 3 projects are selected to receive a grant Design Fund of 45.000 € each plus customised sessions with Distribution support TFL Audience Designers addressed to European that lead the teams through producers and sales the creation of innovative agents working on promotional strategies internationally co- to reach the project’s produced feature films. audiences. NEW CALL WILL OPEN IN SPRING 2022

6 Dates may be subject to change SAVE THE DATE:

29TH NOVEMBER – 1ST DECEMBER, TURIN (ITALY) 6TH-10TH DECEMBER, ONLINE

The TFL Meeting Event The participants pitch their is the annual showcase projects to an audience of the projects, talents of carefully selected and films developed at international producers, TorinoFilmLab, featuring sales agents and other an international co- film industry professionals, production forum for interested in collaborating independent original or with them. Besides, it is adapted feature films, also a moment to reward and a presentation of the the best projects with the professionals trained within TFL Production Awards, the scheme, icing on as well as collateral the cake. prizes backing the further development, production and post-production.

REGISTRATIONS FOR THE TFL INDUSTRY PASS OPEN IN OCTOBER 2021

7 @ CANNES 2021

UN CERTAIN REGARD La Civil by Teodora Ana Mihai (Belgium/ /Mexico, 2021, 140’) – 1st feature film Developed within ScriptLab 2017

FRIDAY 9TH AT 14:00, SUNDAY 11TH AT 8:30, SALLE DEBUSSY PALAIS H SATURDAY 10TH AT 8:30, THURSDAY 15TH AT 21:00, SALLE DEBUSSY RIVIERA 1

SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE Small Body by Laura Samani (Italy/Slovenia/ , 2021, 89’) – 1st feature film Developed within ScriptLab 2017, FeatureLab 2018 and winner of the TFL Production Award 2018 (€ 40.000)

SATURDAY 10TH AT 11:30, SATURDAY 10TH AT 22:30, ESPACE MIRAMAR ESPACE MIRAMAR SATURDAY 10TH AT 17:00, SUNDAY 11TH AT 8:30, ESPACE MIRAMAR ESPACE MIRAMAR

SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE Amparo by Simón Mesa Soto (Colombia/ Sweden/Germany/Qatar, 2021, 95’) – 1st feature film Developed within ScriptLab 2017

MONDAY 12TH AT 11:30, MONDAY 12TH AT 22.30, ESPACE MIRAMAR ESPACE MIRAMAR MONDAY 12TH AT 17:15, TUESDAY 13TH AT 8:30, ESPACE MIRAMAR ESPACE MIRAMAR

8 @ CANNES 2021

SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE Feathers by Omar El Zohairy (France/Egypt/ Netherlands/Greece, 2021, 112’) – 1st feature film Developed within Script&Pitch 2016 and FeatureLab 2017

TUESDAY 13TH AT 11:15, TUESDAY 13TH AT 22:30, ESPACE MIRAMAR ESPACE MIRAMAR TUESDAY 13TH AT 17:00, WEDNESDAY 14TH AT 8:15, ESPACE MIRAMAR ESPACE MIRAMAR

QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS Medusa by Anita Rocha da Silveira (Brazil, 2021, 127’) – 2nd feature film Developed within ScriptLab 2017)

MONDAY 12TH AT 8:30, MONDAY 12TH AT 21:00, THÉÂTRE CROISETTE THÉÂTRE CROISETTE

QUINZAINE DES RÉALISATEURS The Sea Ahead by Ely Dagher (Lebanon/France/ Belgium/United States/Qatar/, 2021, 115’) – 1st feature film Developed within ScriptLab 2017

TUESDAY 13TH AT 11:30, TUESDAY 13TH AT 17:30, THÉÂTRE CROISETTE THÉÂTRE CROISETTE

9 TorinoFilmLab is a year- Created in 2008, TorinoFilmLab is supported by the Creative Europe round, international – MEDIA sub-programme of the laboratory that supports , by the Ministero talents from all over the della Cultura, Regione Piemonte world, through training, and Città di Torino. development, production TorinoFilmLab is promoted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema, linked to & distribution funding Torino Film Festival and the main activities. film institutions established in Turin and Piedmont. Alpi Film Lab is an initiative of TorinoFilmLab and Annecy Cinéma Italien, promoted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and Bonlieu Scène Nationale and financed in the frame of the programme Interreg Italia-Francia ALCOTRA 2014 – 2020.

www.torinofilmlab.it [email protected]

Cover page photo credits: Moon, 66 Questions by Jacqueline Lentzou, ScriptLab 2017. Courtesy of Luxbox.

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