ScriptLab focuses on the development of fiction feature film scripts based on original ideas as well as adaptations. It is aimed at projects at an early development stage, whose authors are willing to dive deep into the writing process during nine months of intensive work, individually and in small groups.
The programme is structured into 3 week-long residential workshops and 2 on-line sessions (taking place in between the 1st and 2nd, and the 2nd and 3rd workshop).
20 projects are selected to work in 5 groups, each guided by a tutor with wide international experience as a script consultant. A story editor trainee – who works side by side with the tutor – completes each group. Throughout the year the projects, which usually start at treatment stage, move forward with the writing, reaching up to a first or second draft of the script.
In addition, professionals active in the fields of development, production & legal issues, will accompany the participants for the duration of the programme, meeting with them individually to assess the progress of their work and to give them broader advice on their project & their career.
A final presentation of the projects during the TFL Meeting Event in November concludes and completes the training: all participants present their projects publicly to an audience of international producers, sales agents and other film industry professionals, have one-to-one meetings with Decision Makers, and are granted visibility thanks to the TFL Catalogue.
TorinoFilmLab is glad to announce the partnerships with BEKRAF – Indonesian Agency for Creative Economy, Cinema do Brasil, Greek Film Centre, Polish Film Institute, Swiss Films and VAF – Flanders Audiovisual Fund. Thanks to these partnerships ScriptLab will welcome one project from each of the following regions: Indonesia, Brazil, Greece, Poland, Switzerland and the Flanders region of Belgium, whose participation in the programme will be supported by the above-mentioned institutions.