ScriptLab 2022

ScriptLab is open to both experienced and emerging writer/directors, or teams of writer and director, from all over the world. It is possible to apply as an individual or as a team of two. Projects by a scriptwriter without an attached director are not eligible.

For ScriptLab 2022, we especially welcome applications for feature film comedy projects, in a wide definition of that genre.

Many of our participants already work together with a production company. However, it is not necessary to have a producer attached to the project. Filmmakers applying with an adaption project need to have secured the rights.

ScriptLab is for projects at an early stage of development, thus projects who have several drafts of the screenplay already completed, will not be considered. Only one project application per year, per filmmaker, can be submitted. However, a project that is refused one year, can be resubmitted another year if it has gone through substantial changes. The same project cannot be submitted a third time if rejected the second time around.

Applicants must confirm their full availability for all the workshops and the final TFL Meeting Event.

The working language of all workshops, meetings and events is English; thus, a good knowledge of English is essential in order to participate and all written material, all versions and drafts of the project, must be translated.

ScriptLab is co-funded by Creative Europe – MEDIA Sub-programme of the European Union, therefore a majority of places in the programme are reserved for participants who are nationals of countries that are part of Creative Europe – MEDIA.

ScriptLab is realised in partnership with German Films and Focal; with the collaboration of MDM, hosting the March module, with The Finnish Film Foundation and The City of Helsinki, hosting the June module.

Course participation fee: 2.500 Euro (+VAT, if due). Extra fee of 2.000 Euro (+ VAT, if due), if a second person also attends the programme.

This amount covers workshop training, online sessions, hotel and part of the subsistence during the residential workshops. Participants must pay their travel costs. In many countries scholarships are available for this training. 

TFL will assign a number of partial scholarships, covering tuition costs, to participants coming from European low audiovisual capacity countries according to Creative Europe – MEDIA criteria*.

* Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Iceland, Hungary, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Republic of Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Ukraine.

The requested materials – to be submitted all together in one PDF, and all in English – are:

- A project synopsis (1 page maximum);
- A treatment (15 pages maximum);
- A director’s intention note (3 pages maximum);
- A CV (2 pages maximum);
- Materials informing about the audio-visual approach: still pictures, video mood board, etc.
- Links (with password) to previous audio-visual works* 

* Submitted materials should be in English or have English subtitles/translation; showreels will not be accepted. Videos must be received along with the application package no later than 1^st October 2021.

Applications that don't include all the requested materials will not be eligible.

Please click on the "Apply Now!" button in the right-side column of this page to access the online application form and submit your project. Before starting the application process, you will need to create an account on the TFL Visitor Page (if you don’t have one yet).

Deadline for applications: 1^st October 2021, 2:00 p.m. CET

Shortlisted applicants will be interviewed via Skype meetings in February 2022.

For more information please contact: sofia.falchetto@torinofilmlab.it

The selected projects of ScriptLab must indicate TorinoFilmLab support in the film credits, by displaying the TorinoFilmLab logo and the caption “Developed at TorinoFilmLab”

1^st module: 20-26 March 2022 (online)
2^nd module: 10-17 June 2022 (residential, Helsinki)
3^rd module: 1^st week of September 2022 (online)
4^th module: end of October/beginning of November 2022 (online)
5^th module & TFL Meeting Event: end of November 2022 (residential - Turin, Italy)