Initially set to unfold in Lviv in Ukraine this past March, but entirely redesigned to adapt to the ongoing worldwide health crisis, the TFL ScriptLab lands online. The first module of the training programme of the TorinoFilmLab, reserved to projects in their first phase of development, begins today 16 April in a digital version, welcoming 20 filmmakers currently at work on their first or second feature (the selection also includes a third feature), coming from all over the world.

The projects are divided into five groups of four, each one guided by a TFL tutor: Philippe Barrière (France), Rasmus Horskjaer (Denmark), Franz Rodenkirchen (Germany), Maria Solrun (Island) and Françoise von Roy (Germany). This first workshop will unfold between mid-April and mid-May to offer an ongoing creative context, through a combination of plenary sessions, in group and individual, as well as several special events to stimulate networking. The work will continue throughout the year, until the TFL Meeting Event set for November 2020.

“ScriptLab is a programme that has changed shape over the years, yet always retained its core belief that an ongoing conversation among peers is an invaluable asset to dynamic and creative development in the early stages of writing a screenplay,” states Eva Svenstedt Ward, Head of Studies at ScriptLab, about the necessary and temporary digital evolution of the workshop.

Standing out from the list of ScriptLab participants this year are, with their second features, Swiss director Hannes Baumgartner (Midnight Runner [+lee también:
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The 20 projects of the 2020 TFL ScriptLab:

After Dark - Erenik Beqiri (Albany) (first feature)
Blustar - Stella Kyriakopoulos (Greece), co-written with Margaret Shin (United States) (first feature)
Calf’s Head - Rosanne Pel (Netherlands) (second feature)
Elbow - Aslı Özarslan (Germany), co-written with Claudia Schaefer (Germany) (first feature)
God Will Not Help - Hana Jušić (Croatia) (second feature)
Home - Or Sinai (Israel) (first feature)
Insectarium - Hannes Baumgartner (Switzerland), in collaboration with Swiss Films (second feature)
La cercanía - Jorge Thielen Armand (Venezuela) (third feature)
Mongrel - Chiang Wei Liang (Singapore) (first feature)
Night Butterflies - Marta Prus (Poland) (first feature)
Pax Europa - Oliver Adam Kusio (Poland) (first feature)
Recognition - Ondřej Novák (Czech Republic), co-written with Lucia Kajánková (Slovacchia) (first feature)
Siberia - Yona Rozenkier (Israel) (second feature)
Skiff - Cecilia Verheyden (Belgium), in collaboration with VAF – Flanders Audiovisual Fund (second feature)
Sleepless City - Guillermo García López (Spain) (first feature)
Small Country - Pablo Aparo (Argentine) (first feature)
Spectrum - Philbert Aimé Mbabazi (Rwanda) (first feature)
The Flares - Danielle Lessovitz (United States) (second feature)
Los pequeños amores [+lee también:
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