HERE TO FIX YOUR STORY 2017-2018 EDITION It’s OK to start with a cliché. It’s just not OK to end up with one. Alfred Hitchcock THE WORKSHOP The Film Garage is a story development workshop created by Scuola Holden. The Film Garage is focused on genre movies (thriller, sci-fi, horror, crime, black comedy and road movies) with the aim of helping the participants work on their projects and resolve underlying script problems. We will select twelve writers’ scripts that suffer from using cliché in an unimaginative way and need an expert eye to work on these problems. The selected projects will have a full inspection at The Film Garage to check their roadworthiness and prepare them for the road to production. HOW DOES IT WORK? THE STRUCTURE The Film Garage consists of five sessions. 1. First session. Turin, December 15-17, 2017. A three-day meeting focusing on the projects in the workshop. During this session all the participants will work on the projects divided into three different groups coordinated by the tutors: Alberto Marini and Guillermo Tato for horrors and sci-fi, Luke Schiller for thriller and crime stories, Lucian Georgescu for black comedies and road movies. In this session the tutors will advise the participants on the target audience of their projects, address the weak aspects of the story and strengthen the script’s potential. 2. Online sessions. The participants will work on the development of their script, with online support via Skype and email. 3. Intermediate session. Turin, March 16-18, 2018. The participants will meet the tutors in three days of intensive story editing. 4. Online sessions. The participants will work on the development of their treatment, with online support via Skype and email. 5. Final presentation. Cluj-Napoca (Romania), May 31 - June 2, 2018. In the final session, participants will attend a training pitching and present their projects in front of a panel of carefully selected genre producers, during the Transilvania International Film Festival. HOW TO PARTICIPATE We are looking for twelve feature film projects represented by a scriptwriter. Participants must send their application to [email protected] in PDF format and in English language: • a professional CV, filmography, and a motivation letter for being in the workshop; • a project synopsis and a logline (max one page); • a project treatment (10 pages maximum); • a project intention note (it may include a director’s and/or a producer’s notes). Optional: • a previous work (link to a video or to references); • a first financing plan and budget, where available. Fee: 2,500 euros (board and lodging not included) DEADLINE: November 26, 2017 TUTORS ALBERTO MARINI GUILLERMO TATO HORROR / SCI-FI TEAM HORROR / SCI-FI TEAM He graduated in Law He is a writer and at the Università degli scriptwriter based in Studi di Torino. After Barcelona. Guillermo completing a Master’s studied Audiovisual in Audiovisual Admin- Communication at the istration at the Me- Ramon Llull University dia Business School in Barcelona and then (Spain), in 1999 he later went on to study joined the Development Department at Fil- a Master in Film Production and Direction, max Entertainment, where he is then promot- taught by Fernando de Felipe (scriptwriter of ed to the positions of Head of Development, films such as Darkness and Killing Words) at Managing Director of Content and Develop- the same university. ment, and finally Executive Producer. Later, Guillermo moved to Los Angeles with His credits as Executive Producer include such the idea of broadening his knowledge in the titles as [REC] and [REC]2 (Jaume Balagueró field of scriptwriting and took several courses and Paco Plaza), The Way (Emilio Estevez), given by people such as Syd Field, Robert Mc- Sleep Tight (Jaume Balagueró), Snowflake, Kee and Linda Seger. the White Gorilla (Andrés Schaer), and [REC] In 2007 began to work in Filmax. There, as Genesis (Paco Plaza). At Filmax, Alberto has Development Executive, he has participated been involved in the development of over 30 in the script of films like [REC] 3 (dir. Paco Pla- feature films, which have been distributed za, 2010). Génesis, [REC] 4: Apocalipsis (dir. throughout the world by companies including Jaume Balagueró, 2014), The Returned (dir. Miramax, Lionsgate and Icon. Manuel Carballo, 2013), Sweet Home (dir. In 2011 Alberto founded the production com- Rafa Martínez, 2015), Summer Camp (dir. pany Rebelion Terrestre Film, based in Barce- Alberto Marini, 2015) and Muse (dir. Jaume lona. The Last Days directed by Alex and Da- Balagueró, 2017). vid Pastor and the horror flick Summer Camp He has also published several books (fiction directed by Marini, are the first productions and non-fiction), such as [REC]. El libro ofi- of the label. cial (the ‘behind the cameras’ book of the His credits as screenwriter include To Let [REC] franchise), Una partida más y me ac- (2006, Jaume Balagueró), Sleep Tight (2010, uesto (Timun Mas), and the horror novels El Jaume Balagueró), Extinction (2014, Miguel torreón de las muñecas and Lycaon. Angel Vivas), Retribution (2015, Daniel de la Torre), Summer Camp (2015, Alberto Marini). LUCIAN GEORGESCU LUKE SCHILLER BLACK COMEDY / ROAD MOVIE TEAM THRILLER / CRIME TEAM Professor in screen- Film and TV producer writing at the UN- with a slate of projects in ATC in Bucharest and development through his visiting lecturer at London - based company Scuola Holden in Turin, Clownfish Films. Lucian belongs to the The line-up includes first post-communist A Barren Land, an new wave generation. eight-part thriller for He is a member of FIPRESCI, UCIN (Romanian TV; Safari, a survival thriller set in Africa Filmmakers Association), SRN (Screenwriters and The Big Tender, a love story following Research Network) and EACWP (European the relationship between two adult film Association of Creative Writing Programmes) performers. He is also working with Joanna with international scholar and industry expe- Hogg on her fourth film. In 2015 Luke rience, editorial contributions and lectures. produced Laura Plancarte’s Tierra Caliente, a His main interest is the road movie genre, re-enactment feature documentary about the he is the author of a book on film director Mexican drug wars. Jim Jarmusch (On the Road with Jim, 2007), Other recent credits included Joanna Hogg’s while his latest feature is a road-bitter-come- critically acclaimed film Archipelago; dy, The Phantom Father (2011). Henrique Goldman’s award-winning Jean Currently, Lucian is working on A Subjective Charles, and German Kral’s Buena Vista History of Cinema Told in Road Movies, but Social Club sequel Musica Cubana. Luke until this new editorial work will be availa- spent five years working with the BBC’s ble, read more about his passion in The Road wild-life film-making unit, producing several Movies of the New Romanian Cinema (“Stud- documentaries in Kenya, South Africa and ies in Eastern European Cinema”, UK 2012 In- Costa Rica. tellect Ltd) or The Point of No Return - Cine- He has a degree in modern languages from matic Expressions of a Nation’s Altered State Sussex University and speaks five languages of Mind (in “East, West and Center: Refram- fluently. Luke is a visiting lecturer in film ing Post-1989 European Cinema”, Edinburgh production at the London Film School, Scuola University Press, 2015). Holden in Turin and the MOME in Budapest and was the producing tutor on the MEDIA funded post-graduate programme Adapting for Cinema training programme. Scuola Holden was born in Turin, Italy, in 1994. We teach something called storytelling, which literally means “how to tell stories”. Practically, our students don’t just learn how to become writers, but also scriptwriters, directors, copywriters, social media managers, comic book writers, reports, television authors or radio authors… Once they graduate, they become narrators. People that have mastered all the techniques with which stories are told and produced nowadays and able to work in any field that has to do with narration. Even those that, perhaps, don’t even exist yet. One of the founders is the writer Alessandro Baricco, who is the current headmaster. WHO ARE WE? Project manager Simone Fenoil [email protected] Project promotion Maddalena Longhi [email protected] scuolaholden.it/the-film-garage CONTACTS & ENROLMENT .