SCREENWRITERS & DIRECTORS LABS
Information & Application Details
The open call for Greek candidates for the 2022 Screenwriters and Directors Labs is now closed. The international submissions are by invitation only.
- Location
Costa Navarino, Navarino Dunes, Messinia, Greece - Dates
29 May – 05 June 2022
- Duration
8 days - Commitment
Full-Time - Application Deadline
12th of December 2021
From 2016 to 2018, Oxbelly organised the Faliro House | Sundance Institute Mediterranean Screenwriters Workshop, in partnership with the Sundance Institute and filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari with the aim to support first and second-feature filmmakers from the Mediterranean region.
Following the workshop’s successful 3-year run, Oxbelly launched its Screenwriters and Directors Labs in 2019, based on the same principles, expanding its outreach to include countries from around the world. The Oxbelly Screenwriters and Directors Labs are held every summer in the coastal area of Costa Navarino, Greece, and allow first and second feature filmmakers to further developon their projects, with guidance from established filmmakers, under the artistic direction of Athina Rachel Tsangari.
Screenwriters Labs
Over the period of one week, each fellow has meetings with four separate advisors, as well as the opportunity to attend group workshops and panels/masterclasses, presented by filmmakers, producers, sales agents, festival programmers, and other industry professionals.
The fellows get the chance to cast the scene prior to the Lab, then storyboard it shot-by-shot, shoot it and edit it at the Lab, accompanied by a casting director, DoP and editor accordingly. Their paired advisors observe and advise during the process until the scenes are ready to be screened and discussed amongst all Lab participants.
Directors Labs
Open Call for
Greek candidates
Please submit the first ten pages of your script (both in English and Greek) along with the requested materials (in English) through the application form below.
Should your project be selected for the second round of applications, you will be notified via email in January, and you will be asked to submit the complete draft of your script, as well as a few additional materials (e.g. synopsis, cover letter).
If you have previously applied with the same project, your application can only be eligible for consideration if your current script is significantly revised from the previously submitted draft.
Please note that the Directors Lab is accessible only to fellows attending the Screenwriters Lab; that includes writers planning on directing their own project and writer-director teams.
Creative Advisors
Fellows 2020
View Previous Fellows-
Sharon Angelhart (Israel)CUZ YOU’RE UGLY
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Konstantinos Antonopoulos & Luigi Campi (Greece)GLORY B
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Mateo Bendesky (Argentina)LA FIEBRE
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Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell (Canada)A PORTRAIT
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Andrew Cividino (Canada)CUTBLOCK
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Camille Degeye & Luc Chessel (France)SPHINX
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Denise Fernandes & Telmo Churro (Portugal, Cape Verde, Switzerland)HANAMI
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Lisa Gertsch (Switzerland)ONE MORE DOWN
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Ivan Granovsky & Mariana Ricardo (Argentina)JEALOUS WHITE MEN
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Hannah Gross (USA)GIRL FROM NORTH COUNTRY
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Soudade Kaadan (Syria)NEZOUH
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Payal Kapadia (India)ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
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Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis & Elizampetta Ilia-Georgiadou (Greece)THAT BURNING LIGHT
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Alena Lodkina (Australia)PETROL
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Pedro Peralta (Portugal)KA