ScriptLab 2025

ScriptLab is focused on fiction feature films, both original ideas and adaptations, in early stages of development. Both experienced and emerging filmmakers from all over the world develop their projects through peer-to-peer group work, with the support of professional script consultants.

For an overview of the programme, please visit the ScriptLab page.

DURATION: From April until November 2025. The programme comprises 3 week-long residential modules (April, June and November) and 2 online modules (September and October).

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Monday 4^th November 2024, 4.00 pm CET.

ScriptLab is organised by TorinoFilmLab – Museo Nazionale del Cinema with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Sub-programme of the European Union.  

ScriptLab 2025  is realised in partnership with Film Center Serbia, hosting the 1^st workshop in Belgrade, Serbia, and supporting the participation of one Serbian project; with Der Divan - Das Arabische Kulturhaus, hosting the 2^nd workshop in Berlin, Germany; and in collaboration with VAF - Flanders Audiovisual Fund supporting the participation of one Flemish project. 

If you missed the online Q&A session with the curator Amra Bakšic Camo contact the project manager Sofia asking for the recording. 

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.

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 only, thus projects who already have drafts of the screenplay, will not be considered.

Eligibility Criteria
a. 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.
b. Applicants must confirm their full availability for all the residential and online workshops, as well as for the TFL Meeting Event.
c. 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 materials, all versions and drafts of the project, must be translated into English.

PARTICIPATION FEES 
2,500 Euro (+ VAT, if due).  

Extra fee of 2,000 Euro (+ VAT, if due) for the second participant per project, selected to join the programme (co-writer, director). 

The fee covers training (residential and online) and hospitality (including accommodations and part of subsistence) during residential workshops. Participants are responsible for their travel costs. 

SCHOLARSHIPS 
FILM CENTER SERBIA 
Thanks to our partnership with Film Center Serbia, one Serbian project selected for ScriptLab 2025 will receive a scholarship covering half of the participation fee. 

VAF - Flanders Audiovisual Fund 
Thanks to our partnership with VAF - Flanders Audiovisual Fund, one Flemish project selected for ScriptLab 2025 will receive a scholarship covering half of the participation fee. 

PROJECTO PARADISO 
Thanks to the support of Projecto Paradiso one Brazilian filmmaker selected for ScriptLab 2025 will receive a scholarship covering the participation fee and one airfare. 

Our commitment is to guarantee accessibility to the TFL’s activities to as many talented participants as possible and to ensure diversity and inclusion through selection of projects/participants. 

Across TFL programmes, a limited number of scholarships - covering half of the participation fee - will be available for participants from racial and ethnic underrepresented groups and/or being from a country not providing scholarships for this kind of training, or participants in any other proven situation of need for financial support. We strongly encourage our applicants to research and apply for financial support within your national/regional funding bodies first, who may have bursaries and grants to cover the training costs. 

1^st module: 9^th – 15^th April 2025 (Belgrade, Serbia)
2^nd module: 16^th – 23^rd June 2025 (Berlin, Germany)
3^rd module: 8^th – 12^th September 2025 (online)
4^th module: 27^th – 31^st October 2025 (online)
5^th module & TFL Meeting Event: second half of November 2025 (dates TBC – Torino, Italy)

Dates may be subject to change.

The requested materials – to be submitted all together in 1 single PDF (10 MB max.), and all in English – are:
- A project synopsis (2 page maximum, Courier New 12, double spaced);
- A director’s intention note (3 pages maximum, Courier New 12, double spaced);
- A CV (2 pages maximum);
- A document explaining why you think ScriptLab will be useful for you and your project (2 pages maximum, Courier New 12, double spaced);
- Links to previous audio-visual works, clearly displayed - not embodied in the text (with password, if needed) *

* Submitted materials should be in English or have English subtitles/translation; showreels will not be accepted.

Any application package that won’t include all the requested materials will be considered ineligible.

IMPORTANT!

Preselected applicants will be notified by email on 9^th - 10^th December 2024 and will be asked to submit a TREATMENT (15 pages maximum, Courier New 12, double spaced) + personal video message providing a status update on the project development (maximum 2 minutes) + MOODBOARD (optional) by 12^th December 2024, 4.00 pm CET.

Any project that will not respect the 12^th December deadline will be automatically excluded from the selection.

After this pre-selection, the shortlisted applicants will be notified at the beginning of February and will be interviewed via Zoom meetings in the second half of February 2025.

Please click on the "Apply Now!" button to access the application form and submit your project. Before starting the process, you must create an account on the TFL Visitor Page (if you don’t have one yet).

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Monday 4^th November 2024, 4.00 pm CET.

For more information, please contact the project manager Sofia Falchetto: falchetto@museocinema.it