Class 22-23

Class 22-23

Participants

Feature Films

Stuart Wright

PROJECT TITLE

ADVICE FOR CAB DRIVERS

When a Female Uber Driver takes a Dying Man on a 500km journey, the soul-searching trip exposes the trauma & shame they’ve kept hidden from themselves

Nuno Soler

PROJECT TITLE

CURTAINS

After WWII, a wayward soldier returns home to revive an old vaudeville theater to save his downtrodden village from a scheming industrialist.

Audrey O'Reilly

PROJECT TITLE

LOW SEASON

When Alice’s mum dates a younger man it threatens the family’s fragile equilibrium but Alice determines to protect her family, whatever the cost.

Catherine Smyth-McMullen

PROJECT TITLE

NEST

An ambitious real estate agent must convince a homeowner to sell his strange home – a house that’s been transformed into a giant ants’ nest.

Aliki Danezi Knutsen

PROJECT TITLE

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

A married woman, unsettled with the political situation of her country, falls into an uspoken desire for a man and questions her own independence.

Class 22-23

Participants

TV Pilot Drama

Sotiris Dounoukos

PROJECT TITLE

KONITSA

A moody crime drama about a young woman’s unsolved murder and DETECTIVE COSTAS SAVALAS’S fight to bring her killer to justice in the land of his birth.

Stelana Kliris

PROJECT TITLE

LIFE UNEXPECTED

A woman desperate to have a baby discovers she has fertility issues, while her best friend who doesn’t want children falls pregnant accidentally.

Danielle Wolff

PROJECT TITLE

SYROS

An American art historian moves to the Greek island of Syros to investigate an underground black market for priceless cultural artifacts.

Julia Keller

PROJECT TITLE

FONTANA

The four-part near-future-drama series tells the story of a great love and the constant longing for a better life in a quantified rating society.

Emre Akay

PROJECT TITLE

THE EXPERIENCE

After his wife Tina’s suspicious death, Karl retraces her steps to a Greek Island and enters a secret cult promising eternal reunion in the afterlife.

Timeline

October 2022

5-day workshop in Athens, Greece, including one to one script mentoring sessions, industry expert presentations and networking

February 2023

online follow-up session with script mentors

May 2023

networking and Awards Ceremony at Cannes Marché du Film

MENTORS

Peter Straughan

Academy Award Nominated Screenwriter

Dan MacRae

Senior Vice President of Production and Development - Studiocanal

Brendan Fitzgerald

SVP English Language Co-Productions Sony Pictures Television International Production

Kristen Barnett

Head of Television - Lea Pictures - Los Angeles

Julien Leroux

Executive Producer - "Tehran" - London

Olivia Mascheroni

Agent - Verve Talent & Lit Agency - Los Angeles

Pavlina Hatoupis

Executive Producer - "The First Lady" - Los Angeles

Andrea Gibb

Award Winning Screenwriter

Workshop leaders

David Isaacs

Professor of Screen and Television writing, USC. Credits include: Mad Men, Frasier, Cheers

Tom Abrams

SVP English Language Co-Productions Professor of Screenwriting and Directing, USC. Credits include: Dawn of War, Nails, The Notebook

Athens | session'22

Cannes | session'23