Babylon kicked off its 7th edition with an intensive script development workshop over four days (October 16-19), hosted by Scenario Films in London.
14 projects were selected from Austria, Germany, Croatia and the UK. Participants worked closely with consultants Tony Dennis, Gareth Jones and Fiona Howe, combining script analysis in small groups with one-to-one discussions, informal pitching, screenings and discussions, plus case studies and lectures by industry professionals.
Thanks to Piers Nightingale of Highpoint Media for his lecture on the role of the sales agent in getting films produced, sold and seen; to Ciaran Bermingham, writer and former BBC copyright department specialist for his talk on copyright protection and for his script editorial input; and to producer Mamta Kaash for her script feedback to the groups.
Thanks to Sonal Hansora and Helena Cook for production assistance, and to Sonal Hansora for photographing the event.
Thanks also to Helena McKenzie and Jennifer Corcoran of Film London who hosted Babylon producer participants at the Production Finance Market, where the pros and cons of Crowd Funding were addressed by John Grobstein (Wefund), Olivier Kaempfer (Parkville Pictures) and Gavin Humphries (Quark Films), and a case study was given by director Ben Russell and producer Nadia Turincev about their film A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness screened at this year’s BFI London Film Festival.
Babylon is funded in 2013-14 by the MFG-Baden-Württemberg (Germany), Filmfonds Wien (Austria), HAVC (Croatia) and BABYLON founder-directors Scenario Films Ltd London, and produced in association with Witcraft/Diverse Geschichten, Vienna.
Babylon Europe 2013 Group:
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- Daniel Beres, Fiona Howe, Elsa O’Toole, Sigrid Faltin, Natasa Mihoci, Borut Separovic, Marjan Alcevski, Julian Grass, Irena Skoric, Vivien Makovic
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- Marjan Alcevski, Gareth Jones, Barbara Anticevic, Tony Dennis, Ciaran Bermingham
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- Barbara Anticevic, Gareth Jones, Tony Dennis, Ciaran Bermingham, Jasmina Hajdany, Daniel Beres, Elsa O’Toole, Mamta
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- Gareth Jones, Alexandra Makarova
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- Dietmar Ratsch, Nicole Armbruster, Gerlinde Seitner, Karin Franz, Gareth Jones, Alexandra Makarova
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- Julian Grass, Elsa O’Toole
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- Karin Franz, Gareth Jones
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- Daniel Beres, Barbara Anticevic, Jasmina Hajdany, Arek Gielnik
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- Marjan Alcevski, Tony Dennis
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- Natasa Mihoci, Borut Separovic
