A professional script- and project-development program for creative teams and aspiring script consultants who believe in the importance of teamwork.
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2024
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An exquisite experience
The program targets creative teams with feature films in development & aspiring script consultants coming primarily from Central and Eastern Europe.
As the first film & series development platform in Europe, MIDPOINT Institute introduces within the Feature Launch program a multi-stage project selection process in order to be able to support more emerging talents.
From the applications, we will select approx. 20 projects, of which their creative teams will receive a detailed online assessment from two experienced professionals (script consultant and producer).
Based on this assessment, 9 projects will be selected for the Feature Launch 2024 program.
For teams of writers, 1st or 2nd time directors and producers
- move your feature film project to the next level
- create a financing, marketing, sales, distribution or pitching strategy for your project
- work with some of the most established European and international creators and professionals who are willing to lay the cards out on the table (good or bad)
- get unique professional international feedback from our tutors and your peers
- explore the current film industry landscape and trends
- pitch it & network at Karlovy Vary IFF
For script-consultant trainees
- get unique experience, possibility to work on real projects
- take advantage of safe environment & thorough guidance of an experienced mentor
- enhance your script editing and communication skills
- learn to give constructive feedback
- master your analytic craft of writing script reports for film funds, cultural & other funding organizations
- learn how to present yourself as a script consultant
- pitch yourself & network at Karlovy Vary IFF
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Huge motivation boost and way to move your project to the next level
MIDPOINT Feature Launch has been a tremendous experience. The script consultations have helped me take my debut feature script to the next level. Getting to meet and work with a number of talented and fun first and second time filmmakers from all over Europe has been one of the most inspiring experiences of my professional life. Thanks MIDPOINT!
Argyro Nicolaou
Writer, Director, Feature Launch 2023
One of the most thorough workshops, with amazing team and tutors, oriented us towards building a strong story and a strong team.
Mina Dreki
Producer, Feature Launch 2023
During all the Midpoint sessions, I never regretted a single second. Beneficial in every way.
Vojtěch Novotný
Writer, Director, Feature Launch 2023
Midpoint is the perfect platform to connect upcoming filmmakers from various parts of Europe. It opens your eyes to various development stages and connects you to the future of European cinema.
Ýr Þrastardóttir
Director, Feature Launch 2023
Being part of Feature Launch for us has been an incredible boost for the project. We’ve received input that has been so valuable to both the script and the process, and come further than we ever could have without our tutors and group members, in just a few months!
Eliza Jones
Producer, Feature Launch 2022 Alumna
This program has been great for me, as a director working on his debut. It has helped me to be more strict and demanding of my own work and more confident about it at the same time. You gain a large extended family who are all invested and rooting for your film to be the best version of it.
Armands Zacs
Director, Feature Launch 2022 Alumnus
Successful films
Selection of our successful alumni
A Sensitive Person
On their return to the Czech Republic to settle down after years of leading a nomadic lifestyle, 12-year-old Elias and his family encounter a swift string of events that turn their fortunes around. Elias, his dad and his little brother flee, disguised as women. While trying to reach a hospital to be reunited with their mother after her sudden collapse, they meet a colourful variety of locals and hear their dark life stories. Elias doesn’t speak and copes with his overall cynicism through his imagination, but he slowly comes to realise the ideals that his dad lost a long time ago.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Tomas Klein, Tomas Michalek
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2019
Genre:
Comedy / Drama
Restore Point
Set in Europe during 2038, a female detective investigates the case of a murdered couple where a restoration team is able to bring one of them back to life.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Tomislav Cecka, Robert Hloz, Jan Kallista
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2016
Genre:
Sci-Fi
Borders of Love
Hana and Peter have created the world they longed for. They are young, successful and people envy them. They have built a successful company that shall soon provide them for the rest of their lives. Yet somewhere along the way, they got “lost”. Facing a relationship crisis, they decide to open up their marriage. They are allowed to do whatever they please, on the condition of being honest to one another. They define a new set of rules that on the outside seems like the pure freedom, but internally are slowly destroying them.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Radovan Sibrt, Tomasz Winski
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2017
Genre:
Drama
Vera, Dreams of the Sea
Vera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, whose life is disrupted by her husband's suicide who has to face the raw reality of going against the deep-seated gender issues of our times.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Doruntina Basha, Kaltrina Krasniqi
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2014
Genre:
Drama
Erasing Frank
1983. Frank, an angry kid from the streets with "no future". The state banned their music because their words are political. Frank escapes to a psychiatric ward where Hanna, a young enemy of the system, joins him.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Gabor Fabricius, Miklos Havas
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2018
Genre:
Drama
How is Katia?
Anna is a 35-year-old single mother, working hard to provide a better future for her daughter Katia. A sudden turn of events makes Anna question her moral compass in a society where everyone has lost their own.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Veronika Stepanchuk, Christina Tynkevych
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2019
Genre:
Drama
Leave No Traces
In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Jan P. Matuszynski
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2018
Genre:
Drama
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
Inventory
Boris Robič is, as we like to say, an ordinary man. One evening he gets brutally attacked at his home. The police arrives, and open the investigation. There are no suspects, and it seems that no one could possibly be interested in shooting Boris. The police eventually suspend the investigation, convinced that the shooting was a mere coincidence. Riddled with doubt, he starts investigating on his own. While searching for the potential perpetrators, we follow a tragicomic path of a man who discovers that more people hate him than he would ever have thought possible and that the perceptions that he has of his own life are nothing but illusions.
Status:
realised
MIDPOINT participants involved:
Vlado Bulajic, Darko Sinko
Developed at:
MIDPOINT Feature Launch 2017
Genre:
Drama
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