SCript East in Cannes

During one-week long, final ScripTeast' session at Cannes Film Festival, scriptwriters are having meetings with the producers and distributors, as well as they have a chance for last consultations with Heads of Studies. They have occasions to attend the festivals’ screenings, conferences and participate in the festival events.

After a very intensive start with pitching training done by David Matamoros from Zentropa Spain, ScripTeast writers use the possibility of presenting positives and uniqueness of their projects to the world best producers associated with Producers Network.

All projects are running for the 5th Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award, which will be announced on Wednesday, May 18 at 17.00 at the ceremony, which takes place every year at prestigious Plage des Palmes just besides Festival Palace.

Members of the ScripTeast Advisory Board: Sandy Lieberson, Manfred Schmidt, Antonio Saura, Dariusz Jablonski together with Heads of Studies: Tom Abrams and Christian Routh will decide who will leave Cannes Film Festival with the statue of Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award 2011 and cheque for 10.000.

Crème de la crème of scripts and authors from Eastern and Central Europe taking part in 5th edition ScripTeast and present at Cannes Film Festival this year are: 
BEYOND WORDS by Alexandra M. Paun (Romania)
CAR PARK by Bence Miklauzic and Ferenc Lengyel (Hungary)
THE COWARDS by Andrea Sedlackova (Czech)
DON JUAN REVISITED by Andrzej Bart (Poland)
FALSE WITNESS by Iglika Triffonova (Bulgaria)
FATHER by Artur Urbanski (Poland)
FOOTBALL FOR BEGINNERS by Jaak Kilmi and Andres Keil (Estonia)
NIGHTLIFE by Damjan Kozole (Slovenia) and Ognjen Svilicic (Croatia)
SANCTUARY by Wojciech Kasperski (Poland) -
TEN COMMANDMENTS by Gabor Herendi and Reka Divinyi (Hungary)
TOWN OF OTOL by Laura Sivakova and Biba Bohinska (Slovakia)
WHAT’S BETWEEN US by Natalia Koryncka-Gruz and Marek Modzelewski (Poland)

Meanwhile the application process for the 6th edition of ScripTeast starting in September is on, for details please see: http://www.scripteast.eu/16.html

ScripTeast was created and is continuously lead from the artistic side by the famous Polish director and producer Dariusz Jablonski, in collaboration with his closest associates, producers: Violetta Kaminska and Izabela Wojcik. Together - beside wide international production activities through their companies Apple Film and Avocado TV, they created the Independent Film Foundation, which promotes ambitious films and its authors in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe.

ScripTeast is organized by the Independent Film Foundation and supported by Media Program of EU, Polish Film Institute and Apple Film Production, in cooperation with the European Film Academy, the ACE Program, Producers Network, Final Draft, Film New Europe and festivals in Berlin, Cannes and Karlovy Vary.

For further information, please contact us on: info@scripteast.pl, tel: 48 516 034 696.

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