The international scriptwriting workshop aimed at supporting talents and developing the European scriptwriting and script editing MIDPOINT, organized for the third time by the Prague Film School FAMU, announced its winners: besides the Polish short film project The Seventh, the Slovak project Rubicon was awarded as the best feature project.
Rubicon is a screenplay of a Slovak scriptwriter Anežka Guziarová, who is studying the film school in Potsdam and the producer Veronika Čechová, a student of VŠMU in Bratislava. Their film is a story of a fragile friendship between Hana and Júlia, two young girls, who meet each other in Berlin after a five-year separationj, to find a way to eachother and themselves.
Six European film schools participated at the third edition of the event – Prague’s FAMU, Bratislava’s VŠMU, PWSFTviT in Lodz, SZFE in Budapest, UNATC in Bukarest and Berlin’s dffb as a new addition. The first part of the workshop took place in Slovakia within the Art Film Fest IFF in Trenčianske Teplice in June 2012, the second part took place in Czech republic at the end of August.
Slovak projects participated and were awarded at MIDPOINT in the past: the short film project Momo of director and scriptwriter Teodor Kuhn and producer Jakub Viktorín was awarded last year and in 2010 it was Take-Off, the feature project of scriptwriter Barbora Hrínová and producer Barbora Hessová.
More information at: www.midpoint-institute.eu
