Through dramaturgy consultations and editing supervision, this program will address the challenges and concerns in your rough cut and offer an effective plan for moving forward to help you make the film you want to make.
MIDPOINT Editing Room 2021-2022
Features
Archive
Benefits
A post-production program tailored to the needs of your project
For teams of editors and directors
- get a second opinion on your material
- cement your film's structure or explore new possibilities in the material
- discover the dramaturgy in the editing room
- profit from supervision of the editing process
- strengthen teamwork between editor and director
Editing Room for Women
- Special offer for women editors: women editors applying in a team will get 50% off the regular fee for both Editing Room 1 and Editing Room 2
Editing Room - FOCUS UKRAINE
- Special offer for Ukrainian projects in post-production stage: tailor-made online dramaturgy in the editing room consultations for teams of Ukrainian filmmakers (directors, editors, producers) with a feature or short film
- No participation fee
Projects
Participating films in post-production
Eternity Package
Bobby is a struggling funeral agent in a small Bulgarian town whose life is collapsing: his wife is leaving him, his corrupt competitor is monopolizing all the corpses in town, and his only client ...
MIDPOINT participants:
Magdelena IlievaJonathan HeidelbergerMagdelena IlievaJonathan HeidelbergerMagdelena Ilieva
Chrysanthemum Day
A story of relations between a young medical doctor and her patient – an old “flower-woman”, known as a healer, who mysteriously survives a nuclear explosion having completely lost her memory and ...
The Face of Honour
During the WWII, boy is chased by a Muslim paramilitary fascist unit, which had just killed his parents and burned down his house. Running for his life, a boy finds a temporary hiding place in a ...
The Glass House
A young girl disappears with her older boyfriend. Victoria, the mother of the missing girl, has a seemingly perfect life. It is suspected that the daughter is involved in drug trafficking, but ...
When We Were 15
15-year old Tonia is the new girl at school, where she seeks refuge from her abusive boyfriend. Despite her visible shyness, she quickly makes friends with her self-confident classmate Lera and gets ...
Participants
Editing Trainee
Tutors
Professional editors with unique dramaturgy skills
Ivo Trajkov
Czech Republic / North Macedonia
Ivo Trajkov is a director, producer, film editor, screenwriter and story editor. He was born in Skopje, Macedonia and graduated from FAMU in Prague. His filmography as a director/screenwriter ...
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Tomas Doruska
Czech Republic
Editor, director and producer Tomáš Doruška was born in 1977 in Valašské Meziříčí. He graduated from FAMU’s Editing Department. As an editor, he has participated in about 50 projects, both feature ...
Complete bio
References
I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with the best mentor/editor, Ivo Trajkov, in the editing room and use his creative input and editing skills in shaping Zana. The MIDPOINT Editing Room program was such an important step in turning Zana into the film it is today.
Antoneta Kastrati
Editing Room 2019 alumna, film Zana
Successful films
Selection of our successful alumni
Zana
Dark and haunting psychological drama about the collision of modern day faith healers and post-war trauma of survivors in Kosovo.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Casey Cooper Johnson, Antoneta Kastrati
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2017, MIDPOINT Editing Room 2019
Genre:
Drama, mystery, thriller
Lost in Paradise
Eugene could have gone down the safe path, studied dentistry in Bern, and taken over his father's practice. Instead, he decided to explore his native country, fulfil his dream, and go to Prague to open a music club. But man proposes and God disposes - Eugene suddenly finds himself back on the road to Switzerland, while in his head, he recapitulates the mistakes he made. A tragi-comic mosaic about remorse, the differing values of two cultures, and the hope for reconciliation.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Kristyna Michalek Kvetova, Fiona Ziegler
Genre:
Road movie
Structure
The MIDPOINT Editing Room program is organized as a two-stage service
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Editing Room 1ONGOING CALL | online
Our pool of tutors will examine the rough cut of your feature and then analyze it with you during an intensive 3-hour online consultation.
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Editing Room 22022 | Prague, Czech Republic / online
Selected projects from Editing Room 1 will be given the opportunity to participate in Editing Room 2.
The program cosists of a 5-day residential session in Prague that focuses on additional dramaturgy consultations and supervision of the editing process.
The second session is tailor-made to the current needs of your project; the basic offer is another 5 working days of consultations (online or onsite) at a time suitable for participants.
Two online consultations, either in between workshops or at the end of the program, are included.
Fee
Editing Room 1
300 EUR
per project
Editing Room 2
TBC with the projects individually
Who can apply
- teams of editors and directors with a feature film in rough-cut stage
Application requirements
Materials are to be sent to jiri.pecinovsky@midpoint-institute.eu.
Required materials:
- CV of the team members (director and editor): max 800 characters each (in PDF)
- Photo of team members (director and editor)
- Rough cut with time code (link for download)
- Shooting script
- Post-production schedule, including any obligatory deadlines (in PDF)
- Motivation letter, including anything you'd like us to know about the project, your concerns, hopes, etc.(in PDF, max 2 pages)
- Optional: rough cut of unused scenes with time codes (link for download)
FAQs
You may ask...
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So, I can apply for Editing Room 1 anytime?
Yes, we have now an ongoing call, you can apply anytime and you will receive the 3-hour-long online consultation.
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Can I apply to Editing Room 2 without having participated in Editing Room 1?
The original idea is to do both stages in succession, but since the post-production process can vary due to external circumstances, just reach out and we'll do our best to accommodate you.
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I'm a director and I'm editing by myself. Can I apply?
The program is designed for a team of one editor and one director. However, for Editing Room 2, we might be able to match you with an editor from our pool of collaborators.
Contact
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