Boosting Ideas Workshop
An initiative of LIM | Less is More + Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, for Irish professionals
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For Scriptwriters and for Directors
& For Creative Producers
2024 Call is now closed
In partnership with the European training development programme LIM | Less is More, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland offers the chance for up to 10 Irish participants to take part in a six-days’ workshop from 21-26 April 2024, focusing on the creative process prior to writing (applications open: see the form below).
LIM Boosting Ideas Workshop aims at helping Scriptwriters and Directors to dig deeper into emotion, structure and the power of the story at early stage, before entering in the long run for development and even before writing.
As for Creative producers, the aim is to strengthen their ability to follow the development phase of feature film projects by discovering new tools to help an exciting development process, and in the meantime help the author shape and strengthen both story and meaning.
LIM embraces limitations as a catalyst for exciting film experiences and in doing so, bring out a filmmaker’s imprint, enabling their work to stand out. The idea that the more that can be explored and determined prior to the writing process beginning, the more powerful a first draft will be.
We do not select creative teams of a Writer and a Producer already working together. But the week of the workshop offers to gather a variety of filmmakers / professionals from different backgrounds, so as to explore the dynamic and dig into the best of this collaboration.
Scriptwriters and Directors will be asked to apply with an idea / an early-stage project for a fiction feature film they would explore through the week. Applying with the summary of an advanced script is not advised.
Creative producers apply without a project.
LIM/Le Groupe Ouest brings to the table its past fifteen years of methodological research, combining inputs from cognitive sciences and the concrete results of fruitful experiences all over Europe around the concept of Prewriting tools.
Two international script-consultants from LIM/Le Groupe Ouest will create a safe environment and invite the participants to tackle early-stage ideas and strengthen them before entering into the long run of development.
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Applications form
2024 Call is now closed
To apply we require the following information
- Short biography
5 000 signs space included maximum - Link to one previous film/artwork the most relevant for your application
For Scriptwriters and Directors, please send the most representative for the idea / early-stage project you apply with - Letter of interest presenting your expectations and the deep reasons why you feel the need to take part in this workshop
5 000 signs space included maximum - A 3-5 minutes video of yourself, a Webcam shot in one take, as simple as possible, no editing
For Scriptwriters and Directors:
you telling us your story, taking us close to your main character(s) struggle; give as much as possible a vision of where the story goes (beginning, middle and end), what will be the drive, as well as the atmosphere. Please, try to take/catch us even if you’re in a very beginning stage of development.
For Creative Producers:
you presenting yourself but, most importantly, your relation to storytelling and why you would like to learn more about new tools so as to follow narrative process
For Scriptwriters and Directors only:
- Treatment of your project at an early stage or an idea (sending the summary of a script already written is not advised)
12 000 signs space included maximum
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LIM | Less is More
The European Feature Film development programme for committed filmmakers in a changing world
Boosting Ideas / Prewriting
An unrestricted space designed to facilitate conception without resorting to writing, to multiply alternatives and possibilities
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