Fabienne Aguado

Fabienne Aguado holds a BA in Film Studies (thesis about Jacques Tati) and a Master’s Degree in Sociology. Her early professional life was spent on film sets and on writing film reviews. Her experience includes managing a film production company, running evenings for film clubs, reading scripts and being a regular member of juries attributing development grants. In 1998, she helped founding the Centre for Cinematographic Scripts (CÉCI) and has been managing it for the past six years. The CÉCI holds its offices at the Moulin d’Andé, a cultural association of international reputation located in Normandy (France) where artists have found support and inspiration over the last fifty years. It provides a permanent program for film screenwriting which supports innovative and personal projects and includes: accommodation, training, professional meetings and colloquiums; it is open to individuals as well as to groups (all professions of the film industry are welcome). Since 2018, she is the Director of studies of the Académie de France _ Casa de Velázquez (Madrid). Intention: As a script editor, I’m ever and ever cheerfully stimulated by the opportunity to detect early artistic potentials in film projects. For me, reading scripts all eyes and ears open, meeting authors with deep attention, listening to their told and untold goals, is the starting point of the script development process. Then, step-by-step, author and script editor invent together a prolific framework that best fits the project. An ardent and trusting dialogue, sometimes using maieutic principles, sometimes dramaturgic guidelines, has to be gradually established. There is no blueprint for that: any skills from both parts may be useful to map the specific logic of the script project and to emphasize the best of each film-to-be. I am convinced that the film and its author prevail, including even throughout financial perspectives. I consider the scriptwriting process to be a thrilling challenge that relies first on free intuition, emotional handling, and an always renewed passion. More than ever, through story editing, I want to go on acting concretely for the diversity of cinematographic creation.