TorinoFilmLab
Training Development Funding

Events

First Development Workshop

19-22 March 2010
Bratislava, Slovakia

The participants writer-directors and their producers meet for the first time the TorinoFilmLab's team and their tutors. During the workshop each project will be individually assesed in order to define its necessities and start to work at the project development. 

First Training Workshop

21-27 March 2010
Bratislava, Slovakia

As in the previous editions this session will kick off in March. The groups will begin to share their stories and pitching will be immediately introduced as a development tool. The groups will start working on participants’ projects, focusing on story, theme, character and setting the bases for the actual writing of the step outline during the first on-line session. Participants will follow lessons on specific aspects of scriptwriting held by the tutors and will have sessions of pitching in combined groups. They  will learn why pitching skills can be really useful for scriptwriters and how they can improve the focus of their dramatic idea for a script through a pitching process. The story editor trainees will have special meetings and they will start their parallel training process. Participants will also benefit from the presence of a special guest lecturing them on a particular aspect of the creative process of filmmaking.
 

Training First On Line Session

April-June 2010

Participants will have 3 months to develop a detailed step outline, treatment or first draft starting from the materials and ideas discussed during the first workshop. They will receive on-line lessons on various aspects of story development and the outlining, written by tutors, Alumni and other international professionals. Each student will have personal tutoring through e-mail and Skype (long-distance consultation) and will be followed step by step in their writing, revision and rewriting process by the tutors and their respective story editor trainees, who will work on the projects and get feedback on their approach. The feedback to the writers is coordinated both time- and content-wise by the tutor.

Interchange first workshop

2-7 May 2010
Turin, Italy

During this 4-day residential workshop in Torino the writers will meet their tutors to work on the project development and to prepare their pitching throughout group sessions, lectures and case-studies

Interchange First Online Session

June-July 2010

During this 1st online session, the participants continue the work with their tutors via  Skype/e-mail, which allows a continuous assessment, consulting and task-setting

Training Second On Line Session

June-October 2010

This is the first draft script- and story-editing phase. Participants will work to present a revised first draft for the final pitching session. At this stage they will continue their rewriting, exchange e-mails, have Skype sessions and meet through a forum coordinated by the tutors. Story editor trainees will write their final assignment and do their own analysis of one of the projects they have been involved in. A Book of Projects will be prepared for the upcoming presentation.

Second Training Workshop

19-25 June 2010
Brignogan, France

New materials will be discussed and explored in this second off-line workshop in Brittany. Participants will rework the step outline (or treatment or draft, depending on the state of the single projects) of their story under the guidance of the tutors. There will also be pitching in combined groups again, and this time it will involve also participants from Le Groupe Ouest training programme.

Interchange Second Online Session

September-October 2010

The work with the tutors becomes more intense in order to develop the project and prepare the upcoming pitching in December

Second Development Workshop

1-4 October 2010
Turin, Italy

The participants prepare and rehearse their presentations, through combined group pitchings, individual sessions and group sessions, and they meet professionals from the film industry who give their advice about specifical aspects of the development process.

Final Workshops and Meeting Event

25 November - 1 December 2010
Turin, Italy

The Event runs over 3 (+2 days of pitching training for selected participants) days and is organized as follows:
-Two days before the Event all filmmakers presenting a project prepare and rehearse their pitchings.
-Three mornings of public pitching moderated by Binger Lab Artistic Director Marten Rabarts, where each project is presented to the producers and the Jury. Projects are not only pitched, but presented and discussed through Q/A with the invited professional audience. Each filmmaker can also choose to show a 3 minute clip of his/her previous work.
-Three afternoons dedicated to one-to-one meetings with the key decision-makers present;
-An award ceremony on the final evening where both the development and production grants are announced.

Final Workshop and Pitching Event

December 2010
Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The final appointment for the Interchange participants is a 5-day residential workshop and pitching event in Dubai, during the Dubai International Film Festival.

The workshop is focused in the final script assessment, advice and training pitching, and it is followed by the pitching and one-to-one meetings with film industry professionals from EU and Arab regions.
By the time participants reach the second workshop, they are familiar with the concept of publicly presenting their stories and reviewing them with other professionals, and they know how to “field” questions about their project in an engaging and productive way.
 

Alumni Meeting

January 2011
Angers, France

Our already “traditional” Alumni event will take place in January 2011, and it will involve tutors and  past participants. The last Alumni meeting was held in Angers during the Festival Premiers Plans in January 2009, and we would like to keep connecting the event to a relevant festival or market in the future as well. The 3-day workshop seems to be the best formula for this kind of event, and we are planning to organize moderated roundtable-sessions, screenings followed by lectures and collective discussions and presentations on co-production.