Tutors

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Lecture topic: “Mastering the Storyline”

Award winning British/Canadian director who has worked in Canada, the US, UK, throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East. 

Jonathan has directed a wide variety of projects including feature films, TV series, documentaries and shorts. His work has been screened in major international film festivals as well as theatrically and on Channel 4 (UK), NHK (Japan), HBO, CBC and Showtime. 

Jonathan’s theatrical feature Minotaur opened in LA and NY to critical acclaim, and RUPERT'S LAND won 6 Leo Awards and 5 Genie nominations including Best Picture and Best Director. His film The Childeater received an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short. Jonathan is a film instructor at Emily Carr University of Art & Design and has been involved in many of the creative cinema film workshops around the world.
 

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Jonathan will reveal discuss the professional secrets for of successful story development, involving everything from writing preparation to dramatic structure, along with and useful tips for refining your film script. Participants will gain knowledge about the connection between the story and three dimensional of the characters, how to construct an emotional line as well as how to support it. Jonathan will dig deeper into the way how to crafting impactful content, the power of subtext, the layering of the story, the foreshadowing effect, and the intelligent usage of film language.

Lecture topic: "Festival Strategy - Make Yourself Visible!"

Sales and festival strategy consultant based in Berlin. Creative Europe MEDIA expert for film co-development. Graduate of Film and Television Academy in Berlin in sales, distribution, curatorship, marketing and audience engagement. Teaches film sales and impact campaignes at the Kielowski Film School in Poland and University of Vienna in Austria.

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Anna’s lecture is tailored for emerging filmmakers to discover insider tips on selecting the best festivals, optimizing submissions, and leveraging promotional opportunities to enhance your visibility and propel your short film to success in the competitive festival circuit.

Lecture topic: “Writing through the character”

Film and TV series scriptwriter and director, whose works have been shown in Berlinale, Seatle International Film Festival, Vancouver IFF, Sitges IFF, and others. In 2017, his film “En la azotea” (en. On the Rooftop) was nominated for the Gaudí and Goya awards for Best Short Film. D. Serra Cauchetiez works as a lecturer at ESCAC (The Film and Audiovisual School of Catalonia, University of Barcelona), Nancy Tuñón School of Actors (Barcelona), and Madrid Central Cinema (Central de Cine de Madrid).

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Damià says: 

“This simple idea (the reminding that there’s someone who will say these lines) makes the character human, and the scene and the short film start to write a little bit themselves, by asking the right questions. My lecture will be about understanding the basic concepts of directing actors that can bring order and emotion to a script, concepts like objective, verbs and subtext. The final goal is to fight one of the worst enemies of writing, or directing actors, or doing cinema itself: indecision.”

Lecture topic: "Understanding the Power of Theme in Storytelling"

Susan Kelly, PhD, is an award-winning distinguished teacher, mentor, story consultant, film producer, story developer and leader of international study courses. Dr. Kelly has taught film theory, screenwriting and film production courses at Indiana University for more than 20 years.

Susan has been privileged to see her former student’s work produced by Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, FX, and FOX. Their exemplary work has been screened at Sundance, won awards at South by Southwest, and one former student was nominated for an Oscar.

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Susan will focus on defining and exploring the role of theme in storytelling. We will differentiate between the subject matter of a story, which will materialize as it’s plot; and a story’s theme, which is an active exploration of an idea, a search for some truth about life. Much like writing an essay (which is to test the quality of something, or ascertain its worth), fully realized, three dimensional stories put forward an idea, explore it through the conflicting actions and words of their characters, and then reach a conclusion in what we hope is an emotionally evocative statement about life. We will explore how theme is embedded in the structure of storytelling and how, when done well, reveals the writer’s attitudes and perspectives about life.

Film director; associate professor at LMTA and ViniusTECH, project manager of the “Summer Media Studio” since 2001; initiator and director of the Audiovisual Arts Industry Incubator (AMII) since 2013. I. Kurklietytė has made numerous documentaries and feature films, including the children's feature film “Butterfly's Heart”, which has travelled to more than 50 festivals around the world, the feature-length documentary film “Anikė. The Love Story" and the social drama series “People of the Dump”. I. Kurklietytė is always eager to advise participants of SMS with scriptwriting, directing, and editing questions, as well as provide information on careers and future studies in the arts of the audiovisual industry field.