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The Film Garage
Start date: Dec 15, 2014, End date: Jan 14, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The Film Garage is a training programme for European scriptwriters developing feature length genre films.Over a six month period, nine screen writers worked with the support of experienced European industry trainers to fully develop their genre scripts. The genres we focused on has been horror, thrillers and road movies.During the first session 9 European participants (scriptwriters, directors, producers) participated in a four-day evaluation workshop coordinate by 3 Tutor and 3 different Professionals active in different field (producers\script editor\ film director). During this session all the participants worked on their projects both in one to one meeting and in peer to peer session in order to focus on: - the potential target and audience of the projects;- underline things to be fixed in the stories;- how to develop the story in a new solid treatment;The participants then rewrote their projects during the on line session, following the suggestions and the feedback of the tutors.As final step we organized a pitching sessions during the Noir in Festival: several producers and sales agents coming from the audio-visual industry has attend at this final presentation in order to evaluate the projects and contact the participants. Methodologies:- Peer to peer work and group work in small team;- lectures on specific aspect of film genre writing and producing in Europe - pitching training;- final pitching of the projects;At the present moment (April 2016) among the participants of the first edition Yvonne Kerekgyarto (Bath of Blood) has been selected by the Frontieres international co-production market in order to pitch the project at the Market in March 2016 in Bruxelles.
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