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THE ART OF SCREENWRITING CINEMA

HOW TO DEVELOP CREATIVE CONTENT IN THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF SERIES

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The European Film Forum on The Art of Screenwriting is organized by the European Commission and BOZAR. EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG Connect – Head of Media Unit: Lucia Recalde DG Connect – Media Support Programmes: Bronagh Walton Com: Lauriane Bertrand EACEA MEDIA – Creative Europe – TV, Audience, Innovation Sector – Head of Sector: Matteo Solaro BOZAR European Film Forum Team Head of Cinema: Juliette Duret Project Coordination: Pascale Valcke Consultant: Helen Perquy Production: Laure Hendrickx, Zoi Fulidu Com & Press: Sandrine Demolin, Hélène Tenreira Audiovisual: Yves Gervais Planning: Hélène Goethals With dedicated support by: the hosts and technical team Management CEO BOZAR: Paul Dujardin Head of Exhibitions: Sophie Lauwers Director of Finances: Jérémie Leroy Director of Operations: Albert Wastiaux Head of Cinema: Juliette Duret Head of Music: Ulrich Hauschild Director of Human Resources: Marleen Spileers Director of Marketing, Communication & Sales: Filip Stuer Director of Technics, IT, Investment, Safety & Security: Stéphane Vanreppelen Director of General Administration: Didier Verboomen Partners

Cover photo: The Bridge 3 ©Baldur Bragason

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The European Film Forum initiated by the European Commission in 2014 provides a space for a structured dialogue between the Commission and stakeholders in the audiovisual sector.

The European Film Forum opened 2015 in Berlin and events were and are held at important European Film Festivals like Cannes, Venice and MIPCOM. BOZAR created the festival Are You Series? celebrating the burst of creativity in series today. The festival focuses in particular on the art of screenwriting.

The 3rd of December promises to be an international encounter of renowned screenwriters with proven ability to touch a large, international audience with high quality storytelling. The purpose of this day is to provide a perspective on the creative process of screenwriting and the birth of a series as an artistic whole.

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09:00 Registration & coffee 09:30 Presentation Creative Europe

by Lucia Recalde Existing support for the production of series, training opportunities and distribution 10:00 Screening of 1 episode of The Bridge 3 A series supported by the European Commission 11:00 Case study of The Bridge 3 How to develop creative content and find financing In the presence of the team: Lars Blomgren (Producer), Anders Lundström (Showrunner), Camilla Ahlgren (Screenwriter), Tasja Abel �ZDFE – distributor), Kristian Hoberstorfer �SVT – Broadcaster) Moderator: Matteo Solaro

14:00 — 17:30 Two roundtable discussions on screenwriting 14:00 Panel I: Screenwriting in team.

A stimulants to creativity?

With: Alex Berger �FR, Le Bureau des Légendes), Clive Bradley �UK, Trapped), Ben Harris �UK, The Paradise, Transporter), Carl Joos �BE, Cordon, The Broken Circle Breakdown), Karianne Lund �NO, Occupied) Moderator: Wim Janssen 16:00 Panel II: Shooting of a series.

How to create an artistic ensemble?

With: Emily Ballou �UK, Humans, The Slap), Jan Bennemann �DE, Transporter), Gilles Coulier �BE, Bevergem), Maria Feldman �IS, False Flag, Fauda), Vincent Lannoo �BE, Trepalium), Moderator: Tasja Abel 17:30 Summary of issues raised during panels

by Ian Macdonald & Evaluation of training opportunities in screenwriting & challenges for the future by Martin Dawson How to stimulate new generations of screenwriters?

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03.12.2015 — 10:00

�SE/DK/DE, 2015, season 3, ep. 1, OV, st EN, 1 x 60’) Creator(s) Hans Rosenfeldt Screenwriter(s) Camilla Ahlgren, Erik Ahrnbom, Astrid Øye, Hans Rosenfeldt, Nokolaj Scherfig Director(s) Henrik Georgsson, Rumle Hammerich With Sofia Helin, Dag Malmberg Producers Filmlance International AB, Nimbus Film Productions, In Co-Production with Sveriges Television �SVT�, Danmarks Radio �DR�, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen �ZDF�, ZDF Enterprises Gmbh, Film I Skåne, Norsk Rikskringkasting �NRK�, Lumiere Group, Copenhagen Film Fund, Stiftelsen Ystad-Österlen Filmfond Support The Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, Nordvision in co-operation with the City of Malmö The long-expected third season of one of Scandinavia’s most exciting series. When the city of Malmö is startled by a murder on a Danish victim, Saga Norén will once again have to collaborate with police of Copenhagen. Soon it becomes obvious that the murderer wanted the body to be found.

The discovery is part of a larger scheme and is followed by a series of spectacular murders that seem to be closely tied to Saga.

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Tasja Abel

Tasja oversees the development, acquisition and coproduction activities for ZDFE.drama. ZDF Enterprises is the worldwide distribution arm of ZDF, one in two public broadcasters in Germany.

ZDFE.drama is involved in productions such as Bron or The Killing as well as upcoming SVT Series Before we Die and Tabula Rasa. ZDFE.drama also has First Look Partnerships in the UK with a number of English-launguage series in development.

Camilla Ahlgren

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Emily Ballou

Camilla Ahlgren, born 1964, is a screenwriter and script editor, who lives outside Ystad in southern Sweden. She has worked with Bron season I, II and III, both as a writer and script editor.

She has written several episodes of The Sandhamn Murders based on Viveca Sten’s books of the same name. Gåsmamman is an upcoming television series in which Camilla and her husband have written after a Dutch model, Penoza. She has been a script editor on TV series such as the Spring Tide, Beck, Millenium trilogy and Real Humans.

Emily Ballou is an award-winning Australian-American poet, novelist and screenwriter, residing in the UK. She adapted two episodes of Christos Tsiolkas’ The Slap (Aus), Anouk and Aisha for ABCTV, screened on BBC4, and nominated for International Emmy, BAFTA, and Royal Television Society Awards.

She writes original drama for Channel 4, BBC and ITV, including Sally Wainwright’s Scott & Bailey, Kudos/C4/AMC’s Humans and an upcoming adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Signature of All Things for Origin Pictures and PBS. Her feature film adaptation of Oscar-winning Shaun Tan’s luminous picture book The Arrival is being produced

by Passion Pictures and Nick Wechsler. Her verse-biography of Charles Darwin, The Darwin Poems �UWAP, 2009) won several awards.

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Jan Bennemann

Lars Blomgren

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Lars Blomgren is Managing Director of Filmlance International AB, which is part of the Endemol Shine Group. Lars is part of the Senior Group Management, with focus on scripted.

His recent works as an executive producer includes all three seasons of the acclaimed and multi-award winning TV series Bron/Broen, a second season of Arne Dahl in addition to Spring Tide and Beck 31 -34, which both are in production.

Alex Berger

Starting in 2003 Jan Bennemann has since produced over 100 hours of serialized primetime drama for the German and the international TV market.

Working for German prodco’s neue deutsche Filmgesellschaft (ndF) and teamWorx as well as Paris-based Atlantique Productions, his credits include shows like ZDF’s Die Bergretter (still one of Germany’s top 3 primetime TV series) and RTL’s event mini-series Die Patin – Kein Weg Zurück as well as Frank Spotnitz’s small screen adaptation of Luc Besson’s iconic feature film franchise Transporter. In 2014 Bennemann joined Dynamic Television, a global television packaging, acquisition and distribution company with o�ces in LA, Paris and Berlin.

Executive producer and content creator of scripted drama, Alex Berger is also a media entrepreneur as well as TV producer in the UK and France. Former senior Vice President of Canal+ Group for Pierre Lescure, Chairman & CEO of CanalNumédia & VivendiNet as well as strategic committee member of both Canal+ and Vivendi Universal, his career has been devoted to premium media strategy and content production.

He is currently executive producer of Le Bureau des Légendes for Canal+, associate producer for Marseille for Netflix, and developing several other US based scripted drama series.

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Gilles Coulier

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Clive Bradley

Clive Bradley was nominated for a Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for City of Vice (Channel Four). Other credits include Last Rights (Channel Four), and A Harlot’s Progress (Channel Four).

He has also written for The Vice �ITV�, Waking the Dead �BBC�, Single-handed �RTE/ITV�, and Crossing Lines (Tandem). He wrote the original screenplay for WΔZ (Vertigo 2008). His That Summer Day �BBC� won the Bafta for Best Children’s Drama in 2007. Trapped �RVK/ZDF�, which he co-wrote with Sigurjon Kjartansson from an idea by Baltasar Kormakur, will be broadcasted in the UK in 2016.

He is co-writing (with Rod Lurie) a six-part mini-series, Lawrence of Arabia (Fremantle/Roland Emmerich). Clive has a number of television projects in development, including Under the Wire (Touchpaper Television), Inca �DNA/FX�, and Shadow Police (Kindle). He is also developing several feature films, including Baptism (Slingshot films).

Director/Writer/Producer Gilles Coulier, born in 1986, funded production company ‘De Wereldvrede’ together with actor Gilles De Schryver and CEO Wouter Sap. He is an acclaimed director nominated two times for Cannes Film Festival and numerous times on other international film festivals for his 3 short films. He wrote, directed and produced The Natives (Bevergem). This dramedy series aired in september 2015 and was a revelation of the year as wel on public opinion as on marketshare.

Gilles Coulier is currently in the preproduction of his first feature film Cargo, produced by ‘De Wereldvrede’ and is in preparation of two drama series. De Wereldvrede represents several talented upcoming directors such as Wannes Destoop (Shortfilm Prix Jury Cannes 2011), Moon Blaisse, Sien Versteyhe…

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Martin Dawson

Martin is the new deputy Head of Unit for Media Support in the European Commission, Directorate General CONNECT. He helps to coordinate the management and development of support policy in the fields of audio-visual media in the digital age, as well as multimedia actions. Support programmes such as MEDIA aim to bridge competitiveness and diversity through 15 di�erent schemes regarding content development, distribution, access to markets and audience development. The unit also supports a European media sphere through channels such as Euronews and Euranet.

Beforehand, Martin was deputy Head of Unit for Knowledge Sharing responsible for innovative collaboration and performance management in the DG, bridging research, policy and regulation.

Maria Feldman

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Maria Feldman is the creator (with Amit Cohen) and the producer of the Israeli series False Flag. The series premiered at Berlinale’s Special Series section alongside such series as Better Call Saul and Follow the Money. It went on winning the Grand Prize (sharing it with Olive Kitteridge) at Series Mania Festival of Forum des Images in Paris, and later was acquired

by Canal Plus. False Flag was produced by Tender Productions, one of the top Israeli production companies that was founded

by Maria Feldman together with producer Liat Benasuly.

The company produced such successful shows as Prisoners of War (Keshet Broadcasting), Fauda (Yes) and more. Prior to founding Tender, Maria produced award winning features, documentaries and TV series, among them Intimate Grammar

by Nir Bergman and Gay Days

by Yair Qedar.

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I have throughout my career worked in television production in virtually all functions with emphasis on production, script and concept development. Both as a freelancer and on sta� at SVT. My production experience is ranging from sitcoms as Svensson/ Svensson, for the company Tre Vänner/SVT, the thriller series The Bridge for Filmlance/SVT, Real Humans for Matador Film/SVT and most recently as a SVT producer on the drama thriller series Blue Eyes for Strix Drama/SVT and Jordskott for Palladium Film/SVT. Since four years I am back at SVT Drama in Stockholm as producer and head of development.

Ben Harris

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Ben Harris is a writer and producer with over ten years experience in the industry. Ben began his career on Sky One’s award-winning cult drama Dream Team where, after three seasons as a writer, he was appointed Series Producer and set up a writers’ room system.

His writing jobs include BBC One dramas The Musketeers, Hunted and The Paradise, alongside European productions Transporter and Crossing Lines.

He just completed work on ITV’s new crime drama Marcella.

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Wim Janssen

Since 2015, Wim is working as content manager for één �VRT�, mainly focusing on drama series.

Wim has worked as an executive producer for the daily soap, Thuis. Wim came from an independent production company, Sylvester Productions, where he worked first as an event manager of mainly big public events for VRT. Later he became production assist and producer of the weekly drama series Kinderen van Dewindt. Wim is mainly interested in new – e�ective – ways of producing, and branding your show. He is looking for best practices on how you can keep a daily returning show at a high level and up to date; make it & keep it a fresh brand in a cost-e�ective way without losing – or even improving – the production value. Besides that, Wim is convinced that our job is about storytelling and wants to learn from practices from all over the world how you can translate to or tell your story on any kind of media. All this to move people and let them experience the story.

Carl Joos Anders Landström

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After a linguistics master and 5 years in advertising, Belgian screenwriter Carl Joos gave in to his passion and started writing fiction. For 20-odd years now, he has been successful in both adaptations and original content, for television and feature film alike. With the Oscar-nominated and César-awarded film The Broken Circle Breakdown and the remakes of his drama series Cordon in France and the US (a.k.a. Containment), his work is getting international exposure.

Anders Landström has worked with film and TV production since 1985. He started his work as a producer at Filmlance International AB in august 2000 and has worked with a mix of feature films and TV series. His recent works includes all three seasons of the acclaimed and multi-award winning TV series Bron/Broen, and the award winning feature films Glowing Stars and Elina.

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Ian Macdonald

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Karianne Lund

Vincent Lannoo

Vincent Lannoo is a Belgian director, producer and screenwriter born in Brussels in 1970. In 2001, after his film studies at the Institut des Arts de Di�usion, Lannoo is noticed for his first feature film Strass. Strass is a mockumentary shot on video, famous to be the first ‘Dogma’ film, a movement initiated by Lars von Trier. In his next films Vincent Lannoo keeps showing a taste for eclectism but also a great sense of humour.

With Ordinary Man, Vampires, Little Glory (his first Englishspeaking film) and In the Name of the Son, he becomes one of the most prolific filmmakers of his generation. His work has been travelling all around the globe.

Trepalium is his first experience in the field of TV series.

Karianne Lund (b. 1974) is a Norwegian screenwriter.

She has written two seasons of the TV�series AF1, a Hip hop-musical for children, for which she was awarded the Gullruten-award for most innovative new content. Gullruten is the Norwegian equivalent to the Emmys. She is the headwriter and creator of the drama-serie Occupied, produced for Yellowbird AS. Karianne studied literature and media before being accepted into the screenwriting program at The Norwegian National Film School. Currently she is writing the second season of Occupied.

Karianne Lund lives and writes in Oslo.

Dr. Ian W. Macdonald worked for the BBC, Independent Broadcasting Authority, London Weekend Television, and the British Film Institute before joining Leeds Metropolitan University as Head of the Northern Film School in 1992. He moved to Leeds University in 2006.

He is founder of the Screenwriting Research Network, and was the founding co-Editor of the book series Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting. He is a founding co-Editor of the Journal of Screenwriting, and was also appointed Docent in Screenwriting Research at Aalto University in 2013. His book Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013.

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Lucia Recalde

Spanish born Lucia Recalde is Head of the “Media Support Programmes” unit in the Directorate General �DG� for Communications Networks, Content and Technology �CNECT� of the European Commission. Prior to that, she was a part of the management of the DG for Education and Culture �EAC� as Head of Unit for Higher Education, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and the EIT (the European Institute for Innovation and Technology).

Ms Recalde joined the European Commission in 1995 and until 2006 served the DG for Employment and Social A�airs in various positions. She started her career as policy o�cer at the Directorate of European A�airs of the Basque Government.

Matteo Solaro

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Matteo Solaro is Head of Sector in charge of TV Programming, Audience and Innovative approaches within the MEDIA unit of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency �EACEA�. The sector is managing the calls for proposals for TV Programming, Online distribution, Audience Development and International Co-production funds. He works for the MEDIA Programme since 2002 and has been in charge among others of the distribution, i2i and television support schemes.

He has acquired a wide expertise in the European market of creative television productions, as well as in the legal and financial aspects of co-productions.

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The European Film Forum provides a space for a structured dialogue between the European Commission and the audiovisual sector including, of course the television industry. The aim is to develop a strategic policy agenda opening up new perspectives and contributing to changing minds in the European audiovisual sector on the challenges and opportunities brought about by the digital revolution. The European Film Forum was launched in 2015 at the Berlinale and events have already been held at industry gatherings such as the Festival de Cannes, Sarajevo Film Festival, Vienale, San Sebastian Film Festival, Tallin Black Nights and MIPCOM. Creative Europe MEDIA is a subprogramme of the EU’s Creative Europe Programme (2014-2020).

Our event at BOZAR in the context of ‘Are You Series?’ focuses exclusively on content produced for linear and non linear TV.

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The MEDIA sub-programme supports the European television industry via the following schemes: Development support with the Single projects or Slate Funding or production support via the TV Programming scheme. The TV Programming support is the main action line for the television industry as it supports productions destined exclusively for the television market involving the participation of at least three European broadcasters with grants of up to € 1 M for high budget drama series. The MEDIA sub-programme also supports coproduction markets for television content (animation, documentaries, drama series) via the Market Access scheme and the MIP�COM and MIP�TV umbrella stands, as well as several training initiatives for professionals of the TV industry via the Training support.

The Calls for proposals of the Creative Europe MEDIA sub-programme are managed by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency under the supervision of the European Commission.

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The Cultural and Creative Sectors Guarantee Facility �CCIGF� to be launched in 2016, will make it easier for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, including those in the television industry to access bank loans. Creative Europe has allocated around € 120 M to fund the CCIGF between 2016-2020, which is expected to yield more than € 600 M in a�ordable loans for companies active in the creative and cultural sectors. The CCIGF wil be managed, on behalf of the European Commission, by the European Investment Fund.

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There are Creative Europe Desks in each country which has joined Creative Europe. These Desks are one stop shops for information on the various types of financial suypport available.

The Desks provide advice and technical assistance for those applying for funds from the EU. A full list of contacts at the Creative Europe Desks can be found at http://ec.europa.eu/ programmes/creative-europe/ tools/creative-desks_en.htm.

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