ScriptLab 2021 Immersive feature script development program.

ScriptLab 2021

Immersive feature script development program.

Following the success of the ScriptLab 2019 and 2020, CineSud is going to launch the third edition of the development program for first, second or third feature film scripts. If you have written or directed one or more short films and are currently working on the treatment for your feature film, you are welcome to join this intensive training lab starting from March 2021! Participation is open for filmmakers from the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium.

Startdatum

10 maart 2021
om 10:00

Einddatum

21 december 2021
om 00:00

Locatie

Heerlen

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ScriptLab

Starting in March 2021, this 9-months feature film development program will enable scriptwriters to finish their scripts (or drafts of scripts) starting from the treatment stage. The course will feature two multiday residence-sessions with writers rooms, masterclasses and discussions (on several locations in the province of Limburg, the Netherlands), online sessions with script consultants and networking and pitching sessions during filmfestivals. The decision-makers are producer Hans de Wolf & screenwriter Chris Westendorp. The coaches of the 2021 edition are Jolein Laarman, Rogier de Blok and Anne Gensior.

Want to join the ScriptLab?

If you would like to join the ScriptLab*, please read the conditions and fill in the form below. You can register for the ScriptLab 2021 no later than January 15, 2021, 09.00 AM. Applications can be done in Dutch or English. From the start of the program it is obliged to deliver (reading) materials in both languages. Coaching on location will be mainly in Dutch. Coaching sessions with external experts will be conducted in English. The entries are assessed by an external committee of decision makers. The selected plans will be announced on February 15, 2021.

Participation is open for filmmakers from the Netherlands and Dutch-speaking Belgium.

Program

The ScriptLab 2021 will take place from March 10 till December 21, 2021 in several residences in the province of Limburg, the Netherlands (the exact locations will be announced in February). A maximum of 5 projects will be selected. The costs are €850 (excl. VAT). A second scriptwriter on a project can participate for €750 (excl. VAT). The price includes two multiday residencies, three online sessions, accommodation and provisions during the residencies. You can find the complete program on the bottom of this page.

* please be aware of the fact that (part of) the writing has to be done in English, as some of the coaches and mentors are international experts. This means that next to your writing in Dutch, there always has to be an English version as well.

First feedback sessions of Script Lab 2019.

ScriptLab 2021 | Decision Makers & Coaches

Meet next year's selectors and mentors!

Decision Maker | Hans de Wolf

Hans de Wolf is a television, documentary and film producer. From 1985 to 1989 he was the director of the Netherlands Film Festival. From 1990 onwards he was producer at the production company Egmond Film & Television, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 68th Academy Awards with the film Antonia's Line. His recent works include De Vogelwachter, Dreamlife, Wat Is Dan Liefde, The Beast in the Jungle, Dorst, The Reports on Sarah and Saleem, Soof: een nieuw begin, Welkom, Josine, Het begin van het einde.

Decision Maker | Chris Westendorp

Chris Westendorp is an Amsterdam based writer and director. She started as a documentary filmmaker before she got into screenwriting. She graduated from the Dutch Film and Television Academy in 2001 with the documentary Westwood Loves You. With this film she won, among others, the Prins Bernard Culture Prize. After her graduation, she immediately started to write for cinema and television. Her recent works include feature films Hemelrijken Dorsvloer vol confetti and tv-series Zeven Kleine Criminelen, Black Widow, Vechtershart.

Coach | Jolein Laarman

Jolein Laarman worked as production designer on a variety of different feature film and television productions before she realised that writing is her real passion. Since then she has written many different television films, series, short and feature films such as the feature films Broos, Tussenstand, Het zusje van Katia, Onder Ons, Kauwboy, Verdwijnen, which won many national as well as international prizes. Currently she is working on a feature film Do Not Hesitate.

Coach | Rogier de Blok

Rogier de Blok is an experienced screenwriter and script coach. His feature films have been selected for many festivals, including Cannes, Berlin and Toronto and have won many (inter)national awards, including Gouden Kalveren and an EMMY Award. He obtained his Masters in Business Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam and studied Scriptwriting at the Film Academy. His works include Infiltrant, De Nieuwe Wereld.

Coach | Anne Gensior

Anne Gensior works as an international script consultant for feature films and documentaries and as a script reader for funds and workshops. Since 2017 she has been a core tutor at MIDPOINT Feature Launch and works regularly for EAVE Workshops. Anne participated as a story editor in the Script&Pitch Programme of TorinoFilmLab and works for the script development agency Script House in Berlin.

Program ScriptLab 2021

ScriptLab 2021 | March 10-14, 2021 | Session 1 - Synopsis, Structure and Treatment

10 maart 14:00 Feedback Session: Part 1

An expert is going to give a 20-min feedback per project, while the writers will be listening and writing down, preparing for the rewriting following the same day.

The expert will be announced in February 2021.

Time slot: 14:00-15:50.

10 maart 16:00 Feedback Session: Part 2

An expert is going to give a 20-min feedback per project, while the writers will be listening and writing down, preparing for the rewriting following the same day.

The expert will be announced in February 2021.

Time slot: 16:00-17:50.

10 maart 18:00 Get-together Session

The first evening just before the start of the program, the participants are welcome to spend in the vacation house in Limburg to meet up with all the other participants, have dinner, get to know each other and have the first feedback session with one other.

Time slot: 18:30-19:30.

11 maart 10:00 Talk: Synopsis, Treatment, Structure

The participants are going to learn with the coach about story ideas, story elements, synopsis and treatment development.

The coach will be announced in November 2020.

Time slot: 10:00-11:00.

11 maart 11:00 Writers Room: Synopsis, Treatment, Structure

Get ready for the intensive work with your story! Starting from this session all the writers will immerse into the ground work of making their stories stronger with their coach and get ready for the next rewriting session in the evening.

Time slot: 11:00-18:00 (including lunch 13:00-14:00).

11 maart 18:00 Dinner & Networking

Time slot: 18:00-19:30

11 maart 20:00 Individual task - Writing session

The participants will have to rewrite the synopsis based on the feedback. The new version will be read & analysed the following day at the workshop with the coach.

Time slot: 20:00-22:00.

12 maart 10:00 Writers Room: Treatment

The participants are going to have a writers room session discussing their synopses and treatments with their coach.

Time slot: 10:00-18:00 (including lunch 13:00-14:00).

12 maart 18:00 Dinner & Networking

Time slot: 18:00-19:30

12 maart 20:00 Individual task - Writing session

The participants will have to rewrite the synopsis based on the feedback. The new version will be read & analysed the following day at the workshop with the second coach.

Time slot: 20:00-22:00.

13 maart 10:00 Writers Room: Treatment

The third writers room will be devoted again to the treatment, however, with a different coach. Together with the coach Jolein Laarman, the participants will read the new version of the synopses/treatments and proceed with the in-depth work while preparing for the two-months treatment rewrite.

Time slot: 10:00-18:00 (including lunch 13:00-14:00).

13 maart 18:00 Dinner & Networking

Time slot: 18:30-19:00

14 maart 10:00 Writers Room: Character Development with actors

During this sessions the writers together with the coach Jolein Laarman will have a chance to work with actors on analysing the protagonists from a story and building up the layers of their characters.

Time slot: 10:00-18:00 (including lunch 13:00-14:00).

14 maart 18:00 Dinner & Networking

Time slot: 18:00-19:30

ScriptLab 2021 | Online Sessions - March-September 2021

March-May 2021 | Individual Task: Treatment

After the sessions in March 2021, the scriptwriters will have a task to work on their treatments for the feature films.

The scriptwriters will need to send in the projects no later than May 9, 2020, 23:59 for the revision. The participants will get the feedback at one 60-minute online session with the coach around May 18-21, 2021 (the date can be adjusted).

The participants will get on May 11 the projects of their fellow writers and will need to write a short feedback on each work till May 21.

May 2021 | Online session 1

During the 60-min one-on-one online session the scriptwriters will get the feedback from the new coach on their treatment and will proceed with the scene-by-scene breakdown.

The coach will be announced in November 2020.

June-July 2020 | Individual Task: Scene-by-scene Breakdown

Following the online-session in May 2021, the scriptwriters will continue their work on the scene-by-scene breakdowns for their stories.

The scriptwriters will need to send in the projects no later than July 18, 2021 for the revision. The participants will get the feedback at one 60-minute online session with the coach in end of July 2021.

The participants will get on July 20, 2021 the projects of their fellow writers and will
need to write a short feedback on each work till August 2.

July 2020 | Online personal session 2

Within the period of July 27-August 2 the coach Jolein Laarman will give feedback and recommendations for the story structure after reading S-b-S breakdown of the projects during one-on-one online session.

August-September 2021 | Individual Task: Script, First Draft

Here we go, now the writers are ready for the first draft! A little more than a month to write the whole script? It is quite a challenge! However, the deadline of September 26, 2021 isn't going anywhere, the coaches will be waiting for the first drafts.

The participants will get on September 28 the projects of their fellow writers and will need to read them before the Session 2.

Script Lab 2021 | October 13-17, 2021 | Session 2 - Script: Frist Draft

ScriptLab 2021 | October 13-17, 2021 | Session 2 - Script: First Draft

13 oktober 14:00 Feedback Session: First Draft

Two experts are going to give a 20-min feedback per project, while the writers will be listening and writing down, preparing for the first session with Moniek Kramer the next day.

Time slot: 14:00-18:00.

13 oktober 18:00 Get-together Session

The first evening just before the start of the second session of the ScriptLab 2021 program, the participants are welcome to spend in the vacation house in Limburg to meet up with all the other participants, have dinner, get to know each other and have the feedback session on the first draft of their scripts.

Time slot: 18:00-22:00.

14 oktober 10:00 Writers Room: First Draft

The participants are going to analyse with the coach the first draft of their scripts, choose the part of the script that the writers will be working on during the rewriting session following the same day.

Time slot: 10:00-18:00 (including lunch 13:00-14:00).

14 oktober 18:00 Dinner & Networking

The participant will spend time together while cooking dinner in the vacation house in Limburg analysing the workshop day and preparing for the rewrite of the frist draft of their scripts.

Time slot: 18:00-20:00.

14 oktober 20:00 Individual task - Writing session

The participants will have time to rewrite the part of the first draft of their script based on the feedback. The new version will be read & analysed the following day at the workshop with the coach.

Time slot: 20:00-22:00.

15 oktober 10:00 Writers Room: First Draft

During this session, the writers will continue analysing with the coach the first draft of their scripts.

Time slot: 10:00-18:00 (including lunch 13:00-14:00).

15 oktober 18:00 Dinner & Networking

Once again the participant will spend time together while cooking dinner in the vacation house in Limburg analysing the workshop day and preparing for the rewrite of the synopsis.

Time slot: 18:00-20:00.

15 oktober 20:00 Individual task: Writing session

The participants will have time to rewrite the part of the first draft of their scripts based on the feedback.

Time slot: 20:00-22:00.

16 oktober 10:00 Writers Room: First Draft

During this session, the writers will continue analysing with the coach Jolein Laarman the first draft of their scripts.

Time slot: 10:00-18:00 (including lunch 13:00-14:00).

16 oktober 18:00 Dinner & Networking

Once again the participant will spend time together while cooking dinner in the vacation house in Limburg analysing the workshop day and preparing for the rewrite of the scenes & dialogues.

Time slot: 18:00-20:00.

17 oktober 10:00 Writers Room: Scenes & Dialogues with actors

During this group workshop the ScriptLab participants together with the coach Jolein Laarman will work with the scenes of the first draft of the script (one hour per project) together with the invited actors. During improvisations (acting out scenes) the participants will try to find out which improvisations can bring the script further: what works, what doesn’t work? How can we refine the dialogues and scenes?

Time slot: 10:00-18:00 (including lunch 13:00-14:00).

17 oktober 18:00 Dinner & Networking

Once again the participant will spend time together while cooking dinner in the vacation house in Limburg analysing the workshop day and preparing for the rewrite of the synopsis.

Time slot: 18:00-20:00

ScriptLab 2021 | October-December 2021 | Individual Task & Online Sessions

October-November 2021 | Individual Task: Script, Second Draft

After the sessions in October 2021, the scriptwriters will have a task to work on their second draft for the feature films and get ready for the last session.

The scriptwriters will need to send in the projects no later than December 5, 2021 for the revision. The participants will get the feedback at one 60-minute online session with the coach in the middle of December 2021.

The participants will get on December 7 the projects of their fellow writers and will need to write a short feedback on each work till December 21.

December 2021 | Online personal session 3

The very last session of the ScriptLab 2021 will be held the coach who will share the final feedback and give recommendations for future development of the project.

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ScriptLab 2021

Immersive feature script development program.

ScriptLab

Want to join the ScriptLab?

Program

ScriptLab 2021 | Decision Makers & Coaches

Meet next year's selectors and mentors!

Decision Maker | Hans de Wolf

Decision Maker | Chris Westendorp

Coach | Jolein Laarman

Coach | Rogier de Blok

Coach | Anne Gensior

Program ScriptLab 2021

ScriptLab 2021 | October 13-17, 2021 | Session 2 - Script: First Draft

ScriptLab 2021 | October-December 2021 | Individual Task & Online Sessions

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