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Training
INTERNATIONAL
Bespoke training courses and activities around the world for international filmmakers
The Script Factory back in Australia
In October 2011 we are returning to Australia for a fifth time to deliver not one but three training initiatives that will see us working with screenwriting talent, agents and distributors, producers and developers.
Screen Australia have invited us back to run the Script Developers Initiative for a fourth intake of Australian developers. This three-day course will introduce participants to a structured approach of assessing scripts and preparing a development strategy. By examining produced screenplays and reading early work by new screenwriters, participants will consider what makes a good screen story and learn to recognise screenwriting talent.
Oscar nominated Australian cinema - David Michôd's Animal Kingdom
For graduates of the Script Development initiative, we’ll be running Wrestling the Redraft. An advanced programme for developers that comprehensively examines the craft of development, explores how to navigate through the tricky development process avoiding the common pitfalls, and how to set the next draft on course to exploit all the potential strengths of a movie idea.* We will be repeating this course in the UK in November – click here for more.
And if that wasn’t enough – we’ll also be taking The Script Factory’s renowned Script Reader Training to Australia’s Talent Agents and Distributors.
It is going to be a busy two weeks but we are delighted to have the opportunity build on the training offered in previous years and bring our ideas to a new intake of Australian filmmaking talent.
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Recent International Training
Scriptwriting Scheme for Irish Language TV Writers
In partnership with Irish language broadcaster TG4 together with Northern Ireland Screen's Irish Language Broadcast Fund & BBC NI, we helped to stage a new Scriptwriting Development Scheme for new or experienced Irish language writers from Autumn 2010. For 6 Irish speaking writers interested in writing drama for television the scheme took place over a 6-month period featuring workshops and mentoring from key industry professionals.
October 2010-April 2011 - more details here.
Foundation Development Training - Sweden
We were guests of Filmpol Mitt & Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen, in Örebro, Sweden, to stage a two-day workshop during which a small group of selected Swedish scriptwriters, producers and dramaturges were introduced to a structured approach to assessing scripts.
October 2010 - more details here.
Script Development Initiative 2010- Screen Australia
Following the success of our inaugural workshop in October 2009, and followup in March 2010, during which we helped Screen Australia strengthen and advance Australian screenwriting culture and its practitioners, we were delighted to be invited back for an extended run in November 2010. We staged two sessions in Sydney:
Character Building - A Screenwriting Workshop for feature film writers committed to writing drama to help in the creation of unique, compelling and emotionally complex characters. Full details here. Plus a further Script Developers Initiative
which explores the ability to read and analyse a screenplay in order to ascertain its potential strengths as well as correctly identify the source of its weaknesses.
November 2010 - more details here.
Creative Collaboration
An extensive producers programme as part of the British Council's Creative Collaboration strand, partnering with 4 international territories. More information here.
Sarajevo, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, London - 2009-10
Future International Script Factory Training opportunities:
The Script Factory has established a reputation for designing comprehensive film training courses which provide an intelligent forum for directors, producers, readers, developers and story editors to explore and refine the way they develop film and television projects for an international audience.
A specially designed workshop ranging between one and five days, in consultation with the local industry, can create a pool of skilled, trained and confident filmmakers who can effectively assist writers of feature film and television drama by improving the quality of the scripts. Better scripts make better films, which in turn stand the best chance of reaching audiences around the world.
The Script Factory has conducted bespoke international training courses in:
Sweden - Orebro, Gothenburg
Germany - Berlin
Spain - Sitges, Madrid
Israel - Tel Aviv, Jerusalem
Brazil - Rio de Janeiro
Ireland - Dublin, Galway
Scotland - Edinburgh
Singapore - Singapore
Slovenia - Ljubljana
India - Mumbai
Poland - Warsaw
Australia - Adelaide, Sydney
Palestine - Jericho
Latvia - Riga
Macedonia - Skopje
Ukraine - Kiev
Our training courses and workshops are designed and delivered by industry practitioners able to draw directly on their experience of developing and making quality films and television drama for a global audience.
We employ a wide variety of different session styles from one-to-one development meetings to group discussions, enabling us to develop diverse and absorbing programmes that go beyond theory alone and engage participants in practical elements, group discussion and more project focused feedback sessions.
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OUR WORKSHOPS
Development Workshops
By bringing together screenwriters with readers, developers and creative producers our development workshops not only provide new opportunities for collaboration but also create a group of people within the industry with a shared language of story. Each workshop takes participants through a structured course which begins with storytelling theory and progresses through practical methods of working with scripts and with writers. Our development training courses work by combining a diversity of session types including seminars and group discussions with individual writer and project specific consultations.
Click here for more information about our international script development workshops.
Screenwriting Workshops
As well as our development workshops we have a series of practical film script writing training workshops specifically for writers seeking to work up their film ideas for the international stage and hone their screenwriting skills. Sessions in which writers define the essential idea of their film are matched with those exploring how to then communicate it meaningfully on screen. Practical writing sessions can be accompanied by sessions pulling focus on the practical aspects of the craft including: scene development, visual storytelling, secondary character development, dialogue, backstory and subplots.
Click here for more information about our international screenwriting workshops.
Low Budget Filmmaking
It is often argued that the vision, talent and desire integral to successful directors and producers are qualities that simply cannot be taught.
Whilst this may be true, there are many practical aspects of being a Film Producer that can, and should be, taught.
Drawing upon the direct experience of the industry professionals leading the training courses and utilising a combination of case studies, scene analysis and practical exercises our Film Producer workshops are designed to prepare participants for the myriad of creative choices, professional relationships and tasks involved at every step of a feature film's creation.
Click here for more information about our international script development and producing workshops.
Television
UK broadcasters are known the world over for the quality of their output and for nurturing the writing, producing and directing talent that make it. Many of our most talented, innovative and creative writers, producers and directors first honed their skills by developing stories for the small screen and continue to do so. By drawing on this heritage we are now able to design training courses for industry professionals, that examine the specific processes and practices involved in producing captivating drama for television.
Click here for more information about our international TV Drama workshops for directors.
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Script Factory script development workshops also offer participants the time to network, and to form working relationships based on a common understanding and a common language when approaching script problems, or generating or commissioning new projects. The participants make the material relevant to their home industry, simply by spending time out of work, thinking, talking and meeting each other.
Script Factory international workshops are usually run in conjunction with the local film fund, film institute, film festival, or through a production company.
Please email lucy@scriptfactory.co.uk if you would like to discuss staging a workshop in your country.
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The Script Factory is continuing to develop links with European partners. Click here for details of our Spanish partner.