FINALISTS OF “MAKE THE SCENE” INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP, A PARTNERSHIP PROJECT OF UNITED MEDIA AND PULA FILM FESTIVAL, ANNOUNCED
Finalists of the partnership project of Pula Film Festival and United Media – the international workshop for screenplay development and TV series pitching Make the Scene! were presented at a press conference. The best project will receive a 10,000 euro prize and an opportunity to develop the project further with United Media. Nataša Buljan, Goran Bogdan and Mišo Mogorović are the members of the jury.
SELECTED PROJECTS:
- Deconstruction (Bulgaria) – Plamena Velkovsky
- To The Movies! (Bulgaria) – Kristian Stoichev, Boris Rachev and Boris Krastin
- You Have to Live Somewhere (Croatia) – Sanja Milardović
- Rainbow (Serbia) – Srđan Anđelić
- Wonderful (Serbia) – Isidora Veselinović, Katarina Mitrović and Vladimir Tagić
- Dert (Serbia) – Katarina Krstić
“The screenwriting workshop and Make the scene! pitching is a project we are very proud of, and we are especially honoured that it will see its first edition at Pula Film Festival, which we thank for its partnership and hospitality. The response from creatives across the region has been great, the number of submissions is impressive, as well as the quality and diversity of the projects. This has made the selection process challenging, but will make the final pitching in front of the jury on 17 July in Pula a true creative ceremony. The best among the six finalists will receive a 10,000 euro prize and an opportunity to further develop the project with United Media. Make the scene! is an excellent platform for screenwriters and producers to initiate quality projects, as well as for United Media, a production leader that wants to further encourage and strengthen the region’s creative industry. I am convinced that this project will have many editions in the future and will give momentum to many worthy projects, but I am also convinced that we will remember the premiere of the project in Pula forever,” said Nataša Buljan, fiction development director at United Media. Participants will have an opportunity to take part in workshops under the mentorship of Nicos Panayotopoulos, writer and co-writer of numerous awarded screenplays for short films, TV series and feature films (Truants, 1996, My Brother and I, 1998, False Alarm, 2000, The King, 2003, Totally Married, 2003, The Wake, 2006).
The finalists, jury, and mentor of the international workshop Make the Scene! were officially presented at Pula Film Festival’s press conference on 6 June in Zagreb. At the same conference, the world premiere of Rajko Grlić’s new film It All Ends Here, which is to open the 71st Pula Film Festival, was also announced.
Only a day before the big finale of the Make the Scene! international workshop, the semi-final round of judging of one category for the prestigious International Emmy Awards will be held in Pula. This is the third consecutive year that United Media, the leading media company in Southeast Europe, has had the honour of organising the judging process, and after Dubrovnik and Athens, the judging for one of the categories of the famous international award will take place in Pula. United Media and Nova TV will host this prestigious event on 16 July, with numerous TV and film production guests.
