TICKETING

From 9:00am the Talent ticketing counter is open and Talents are invited to collect tickets for Campus events as well as Berlinale films. This is also where all queries related to Campus events and activities are answered. An overview of Campus projects, logistics and event information are provided.

RISE & SHINE BREAKFAST

Presented by Deutsche Welle.

Ready, set, breakfast! Rise and shine to the aroma of fresh coffee, savoury and sweet delights. Today’s breakfast is hosted by Deutsche Welle and offers you a tasty start to the first day of the Campus. Meet Deutsche Welle representatives and catch up with co-Talents over a hot coffee and breakfast.

VOLKSWAGEN SCORE COMPETITION

Editing at Wave-line.
closed events for selected Talent only

TALENT PROJECT MARKET

closed events for selected Talent only

ACTORS WORKSHOP

Suddenly, It All Happened - Turning Points in Scriptwriting

Writing a novel screenplay is an adventurous journey, a process that begins with your imagination and ends with a story structure and script. What takes place in between embodies the art and craft of scriptwriting.

This is the phase when you explore, clarify and focus your story, and figure out what’s really at stake in the film. The key turning points in a script draw people into the film, setting the entire story in motion or giving the plot a new critical direction. Acclaimed English playwright, screenwriter, theatre and film director, Sir David Hare wrote and directed the films Wetherby (1985) which bagged him the Golden Bear at the 1985 Berlinale, Paris by Night (1988) and Strapless (1989), amongst others.

He is the scriptwriter of two Stephen Daldry films including The Reader (selected for the Berlinale 2009) for which he is nominated for an Academy Award. Daniela Thomas, acclaimed scriptwriter and director, she has worked with Walter Salles on a number of films including Foreign Land (1995) and most recently Linha de Passe (2008). The two writer/directors discuss with eminent independent film producer and co-founder of the production company This Is That, Anne Carey, the underlying dynamics of turning points in scriptwriting.

Carey’s film portfolio comprises films such as The Savages and Thumbsucker (executive producer), which premiered at the 2005 Berlinale. Together the experts look at different ways in which turning points could be brought into a storyline and how to continue after the climax of a story.

LOOKING AT HDCAM

In cooperation with Arri, Band Pro and Kamera Ludwig.

This workshop gives you a practical introduction to High Definition (HD) cameras, technology and controls for creative image making. Adopting a creative and technical approach, the session gives participants the opportunity to explore both technique and artistic possibilities of HD filmmaking.

With High Definition cameras on hand, filmmakers can familiarise themselves with HD format selection, choice of lens, lighting, audio capture, and many more relevant functions – what every filmmaker needs to know about the storytelling process.

LUNCH BREAK

MEET THE EXPERTS

SPEED MATCHING

Directors & producers meet everyone.

RECEPTION MANFRED DURNIOK FOUNDATION

For East Asian Talents. Supported by Manfred Durniok Foundation.

Dealing With Reality

Sifting the world through your camera and hopefully bringing out representations of reality, including emotional, physical and factual reality, requires exceptional filmmaking skills. An innate curiosity combined with the resolve to seek the reality beneath the surface is sometimes not sufficient when depicting capricious situations and events.

Documentary filmmakers often shoot under hardship conditions and relying on unpredictable elements, they must put together a convincing argument in the form of a compelling narrative. As filmmaker Michèle Ohayon said in an interview on her documentary, Steal a Pencil for Me,“in my best scenarios, I wish that this will happen or that will happen, but I know that something entirely different may happen, too.“ For a non-fiction filmmaker, working in a visual medium means constantly translating “reality“ into good cinema.

So what does a filmmaker do in a situation where the script becomes inadequate in the face of reality, which turns out to lead the shooting process and sweeps all the characters in a completely unexpected direction? Panellist Anders Østergaard narrates his experience while shooting Burma VJ – Reporting from a Closed Country, when real-life events meddled in ways that hindered him from treating his material as originally planned. It is equally challenging to make a film that presents no pre-packaged opinion on the status of Egyptian women today, as filmmaker, scriptwriter and producer Hala Galal has achieved in her film Women’s Chit Chat, which deals with generations of feminists in Egypt.

These high-profile experts delve into the reality that documentary filmmakers deal with, discussing also how to go about making films under extreme circumstances, where the film moves beyond any sense of reality?

KILL YOUR DARLINGS

Editing master class.

Editing is the one craft in the process of filmmaking that has the potential to mould, improve and even recreate a motion picture. The creative force of film reality, it can manipulate space, time, emotions, and emotional intensity and is limited only by individual instincts and creative ability.

Susan Korda, editor, director and screenwriter imparts her mastery of the editing craft from an artistic point of view. Nominated for an Oscar for the editing of For All Mankind, she also edited the award-winning film, Trembling Before G-d, recipient of the Teddy Award for Best Documentary at the Berlinale 2001. She is a teacher at the NYU Tisch School of Arts and a filmmaker in her own right, having made several award-winning experimental films including One of Us, which she presented at the Berlinale 2001.

In her master class, she leads you through a selection of films where the visual transition in the editing room made all the difference. She displays how an editor can work to extract and weave together the best material from a daunting excess of footage, every decision shaping the tone and pace of the film.

TALES FROM THE CASTING COUCH

In cooperation with European Film Promotion, Berlinale Competition.

The delicate process of casting is the defining moment for a filmmaker and his or her creative vision for the film. Deciding which actors will embody the story’s characters, which faces will move audiences and make them laugh, cry, think, shake with fear and fall in love is a tough one. A talented casting director puts people into roles that make us want to emulate them when watching their on-screen performance.

The often close collaboration between film directors and casting directors is the focus of this panel, giving an in-depth look at the complex choices that need to be made, looking beyond faces and directors and their casting agents – Stephen Frears and Leo Davis who worked together on The Queen, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Dirty Pretty Things and The Deal, and Ole Christian Madsen and Rie Hedegaard who collaborated on Flames and Citrons, we hear captivating tales from the casting couch.

THE TALENT PRESS

Editorial Meeting.

MEET THE EXPERTS

EXCURSION TO EUROPEAN FILM MARKET

In cooperation with European Film Market.

The business centre of the Berlinale Film Festival, the European Film Market (EFM), located in the magnificent renaissance hall of the Martin-Gropius-Bau and at the EFM Marriott Offices radiates a highly charged atmosphere. One of the most important annual events for the film industry, this is where international producers, distributors, buyers and sales agents converge to discover quality films.

This year over 400 exhibitors from 55 countries and over 690 films will be presented to professional visitors. Guided by Fleur Knopperts (to “Meet the Doc“ on Monday, 13:00) and Sydney Levine (on all other dates), Talents will be introduced to the format of the EFM. advanced registration prior to arrival required