Script Analysis
Script Analysis Service - Cineuropa.org
Do you have a feature film project, a series in development or an animation script and would like a professional’s opinion? Do you have doubts regarding the development of the intrigue? Are you still unsure of how the characters are portrayed? Would you like to know the commercial potential of your script?
The script editors at the Cineuropa.org Script Analysis Service will provide you with the answers to all these questions and more!
Why are an analysis and a script editor important?
Each piece of writing needs to be reviewed on a regular basis by a critical eye that can guide you in the right direction. But perhaps no one around you has the expertise needed to offer you advice on such points as dramaturgy, for example…
In that case, consult the services of a professional writing expert to improve your script!
Scripts can be sent in any one of the four languages of the Cineuropa.org site (English, French, Italian, Spanish). The scripts can be for cinema or television, fiction or animation, single programmes or a series.
How does the service work?
Writers and producers are asked to send our service a synopsis (maximum 5 pages), along with their script specifying the version of the script (1st / 2nd / 3rd version).
You will receive expert advice on the following points:
- Originality of the project
- Treatment of the genre
- Treatment of the themes
- Analysis of the structure
- Analysis of the characters, their portrayal, their evolution
- Dialogues
- Commercial potential, market positioning
Please follow this procedure:
- The writer or producer is asked to send their script and a synopsis of no more than 5 pages to: bernard@cineuropa.org
- On the basis of the synopsis and script, the Cineuropa team will evaluate if the project meets the criteria required for an analysis to be carried out.
- If so, the writer or the producer is informed and asked to transfer the sum of €370 to the Cineuropa account.
An analysis valid from the date of transfer of the expert's fees will be sent to you within two weeks. - A second analysis for the same script will cost €300.
Good luck with your scriptwriting!
Cineuropa.org is a project co-financed by the European Union Creative Europe MEDIA programme, the Film and Audiovisual Centre of the French Community of Belgium, the Italian Ministry of Culture, the CNC, SwissFilms, ICAA, Luxembourg Film Fund.
Script editor
Paul Kowalski is an award-winning filmmaker and educator who attended the American Film Institute Conservatory, and previously studied creative writing at Brown University. He has been a professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts for the last decade, where he teaches screenwriting and directing masterclasses. Paul leads an annual summer screenwriting retreat in Tuscany, and runs development workshops and private script consultation services which have included Oscar- and Emmy-winners, and recipients of major grants, representation and scriptwriting prizes. In his own work, Kowalski was named one of 2021’s “25 Screenwriters to Watch” by Austin Film Festival, and invited to the Shore Scripts' Directors Roster. In 2024 his English boarding-school screenplay “The Housemaster” was selected by The Dead List, among the industry’s top annual psychological horror scripts. He recently won Best Director Grand Prize at Flickers Rhode Island film festival for his dark satire “Sardinia” starring Philip Ettinger (“First Reformed”), Emmy-winner Martha Plimpton (“The Goonies”) and Olek Krupa (“Burn After Reading”) — which is also long-listed for the 2025 Academy Awards. His debut drama feature “Paper Tiger” won Audience and Jury prizes at the Austin Film Festival in 2021, was sold by Gersh, and had a special screening at the Canadian Cinematheque. His other films have won international recognition from the ASC, Beijing Film Academy and CINE, as well as the Aesthetica, Raindance, deadCenter, Cinequest and Indy Shorts film festivals, among others. Paul was born in the UK to Polish immigrants, and grew up on four continents.
