OPEN CALL: FILM INN WORKSHOPS

LET YOUR SHORT FILM GLOW

ELBE DOCK International Film Festival focuses on filmmakers from Central Europe and Scandinavia, which will be awarded in the best short film sections. The prestigious Pavel Koutecký Award is closely linked to the festival - this is the award for the best Czech documentary debut (first and second films) in both the short and feature film categories.

ELBE DOCK is organising the 2nd edition of FILM INN WORKSHOPS for filmmakers from V4 countries (Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia). Intensive workshop sessions for producers and screenwriters set during film festivals in Ústí nad Labem, Czechia (ELBE DOCK, September 4-6, 2024) and Białystok, Poland (ŻUBROFFKA International Short Film Festival, December 5-6, 2024).

Both of the workshops are free of charge and the ELBE DOCK covers participants’ accommodation and travel costs.

FILM INN offers professionally led workshops for screenwriters and producers of short fiction and hybrid formats from the V4 countries. Selected projects from the first part of the workshop during ELBE DOCK will take part in the follow-up workshop at ŻUBROFFKA. Both workshop units will explore the topics and landscape of short film production focusing on the script development, festival strategies, sales and usage of AI in storytelling and film marketing.

Tutors of the FILM INN workshops at the ELBE DOCK:

STORY EDITING WORKSHOP

Anne Gensior
Tutor for script development and a script reader for German and international film funds. Since 2012 she has been working as a tutor and script consultant for the producers workshop YAPIMLAB in Istanbul and since 2017 for the MIDPOINT Feature Launch training programme. She has been a member of the selection commitee and consultant team of the Antalya Film Forum since 2016. In 2009 Anne participated as a story editor in the Script&Pitch Programme of TorinoFilmLab and joined the script development agency Script House in Berlin.

PRODUCERS WORKSHOP

Enrico Vannucci
Member of the selection committee of Pardi di Domani at the Locarno Film Festival and of the selection committee of LIM - Less Is More, and the Creative Advisor of the short film development programme MASO. He has worked in film festivals and markets since 2010, in particular collaborating with the Venice Film Festival and TSFM, which he co-founded in 2016. He also co-founded Varicoloured, a holistic short film agency, in 2018, Talking Shorts, an online film magazine dedicated to short films, in 2020 and Talents Generator Factory, a company dedicated to the development of new audiovisuals by emerging and established professionals, in 2022. In 2021, he became a member of the European Film Academy.

The language of the workshop is English. The application form and the requested materials are to be submitted via a Google Form. Screenwriters can apply HERE and Producers can apply HERE.

Deadline for the submission is July 31st, 2024.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at film@krutonfilm.cz.