Policy Center for Roma and Minorities in partnership with Strada Film and the Script Association, with the support of the European Commission, launched today the first script laboratory in Romania, Strangers Script Lab. The lab will take place in two different locations throughout the country between July and October.
The purpose of Strangers Script Lab is to achieve professional screenplays that have the potential to become successful films, while also creating a valuable learning experience that will further encourage young Romanian writers to interact with people from various artistic fields.
Professional and non-professional screenwriters are invited to check out the site www.strangerslab.eu and to fill in the application with a ten page treatment, a sample from their previous screenplay and their personal CV, following the Rules section.
This year’s theme is focused on ethnical discrimination. To be eligible, your treatment must have this theme.
Five screenwriters will be selected to participate in the laboratory, where they will develop their projects from the treatment stage to a final draft version of a feature length script, under the guidance of field experts.
The lab’s guest speakers will consist of five lecturers from the Euopean film industry, and as well as important people from the Romanian media, cultural and artistic scene, along with students which will take part in focus groups that will openly debate the five proposals for the Laboratory.
In the end, a jury will award the best script with 2000 Euros.
The call for entry for Strangers Script Lab has been launched today, May 16, 2011. The deadline for submission is June 15, 2011.
This project will be presented at the Cannes Film Festival by the organizers.
Media partners: Radio Guerilla, TATAIA, Feeder, The One
This project is a part of REACT campaign initiated by Policy Center for Roma and Minorities.
REACT (Responsibility, Empowerment, Activism, Citizenship, Transparency) is a pilot awareness raising campaign supported by the European Union which focuses on the concept of active citizenship of Roma and non-Roma. The campaign is developed by three NGOs in Romania, Italy, Bulgaria and Albania under the umbrella of the European Roma Grassroots Organisation Network (ERGO).
While the NGOs in Bulgaria and Albania focus on grass-roots interventions, our organization develops in Romania and Italy an awareness raising campaign aiming to challenge the negative attitudes towards Roma through a mainstream approach. The main actions rely on films and documentaries, sports and education as vehicles designed to stimulate active citizenship among both Roma and non-Roma.
For more information about the campaign please go here.
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