Schlagwort: women in film

April 7-10, Suzanne Pradel will lecture @ 1st European edition of the American Writers Lab (TWL)

Suzanne Pradel

BuchScout is happy to announce that Suzanne Pradel will teach at the first European edition of the successful American Writerrs lab (TWL)

The Writers Lab (TWL), the script development programme for women and non-binary writers over 40.

The non-profit initiative will run virtually from April 7-10, and is designed to discover an intersectional range of diverse new voices in the film sector. The successful participants will be connected with leading screenwriters and producers in the industry. 17 writers from 13 countries have been selected.

Mentors and guests include directors Susanne Bier (The Night Manager), Jasmila Žbanić (Quo Vadis, Aida?), Isabel Coixet (Secret Life Of Words), Nadine Labaki (Capernaum), Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa), producer and writer Jantje Friese (Dark), playwright and writer Christina Ham (Them), and producer Ameenah Ayub Allen (Rocks, Ali and Ava), script consultant Suzanne Pradel (BuchScout Agency).

TWL Europe is produced by co-founders Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon in partnership with Untamed Stories, lead by Julia Berg and Ruth Spencer. The UK and Ireland TWL programme backed by Cate Blanchett´s Dirty Films was launched last year, whilst the US iteration started in 2015, is produced by NYWIFT and counts Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman among its supporters.

The 17 participants of The Writers Lab Europe 2022:

  • Regine Anour, Underdoc (Comedy, Austria)
  • E Coleman, Dumas (Historical Drama, Switzerland)
  • Ilaria Freccia & Bebetta Campeti, Hold Me Tight (Feature Drama, Italy)
  • Mumta Mala Ghedia, No Monsters in Berlin (Drama, Germany)
  • Virginie Gourmel, Concussion (Feature Thriller, Brussels – Belgium)
  • Tuija Halttunen, Hard Boiled Eggs (Feature Comedy, Finland)
  • Orla Hannon, Bereft of a Talisman ( Drama, Ireland)
  • Marta Hopfer-Gilles, Good Enough (Comedy, Norway)
  • Nicole van Kilsdonk & Marijke Schermer, Breakwater (Feature Drama, Netherlands)
  • Tereza Kotyk, Faith: A Fair Balance of Pain (Feature Drama, Austria)
  • Álfrún Örnólfsdóttir, Shitballs (Feature Comedy, Iceland)
  • Carlota Pereda, The Blondes (Feature Comedy/Thriller, Spain)
  • Ninon Schubert, The Plague Doctor (Feature Horror, Germany)
  • Raquel Stern, Imperfect Cadence ( Comedy, Germany)
  • Francesca Tasini, Unclean (Drama, Italy)
  • Dorotea Vucic, Hadi ( Sci-Fi, Croatia)
  • Agnieszka Zwiefka, She (Feature Drama, Poland)

Apply now for the EWA´s female scriptwriter residency

Suzanne Pradel

THE OFFER:

Accommodation in Berlin starting from 1 February 2020 – and ending 29 February 2020, including three working sessions with a well-known script consultant (2 in Berlin + 1 Skype session after the Berlinale) amd the accreditation for the Berlinale.The EWA scriptwriting residency and the script consultancy must be mentioned in the credits of the later film.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?

  • Women scriptwriters or directors with a European nationality and resident in Europe (47 Council of Europe countries) having written or directed at least one feature film (fiction or documentary) distributed (Theatrically/TV/wide festival trajectory) in one European country.
  • who are EWA members. If you are not an EWA member you can join us now
  • who have a first draft of a script in English for a full length feature film. Fiction only.

ELEMENTS TO BE PROVIDED :

  1. CV in English
  2. Copy of valid ID
  3. Treatment of the script in English.  By the time of the selection you must have a full script in English or French. (The unavailability of a script by the time of the selection prevents you from being accepted in the residency)
  4. Synopsis in English
  5. Project status information in English INCLUDING a Project curriculum (where the project has been presented, prizes, attached producer…)
  6. Motivation letter for the residency in English. This letter must show evidence of fluency in English.
  7. Evidence of release of previous films

Fill in the application here ! We do not accept applications by email. 

DEADLINE on October 15th

Suzanne Pradel is the script consultant attached to the programme. Suzanne is an international script consultant, lecturer and bookscout. For many years, she has been working as a script expert for several European Film Funds. In 2009 she founded the BUCHSCOUT AGENCY which specializes in novel-to-film adaptations as well as international script consultancy, developing sophisticated TV features and cinematic features.

Find more information: https://www.ewawomen.com/residency/