Writers and Creative Advisors Selected for Faliro House | Sundance Institute Mediterranean Screenwriters Workshop in Greece, July 3-9

Athens, Greece: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos' Faliro House Productions (The Founder, The Lobster), in collaboration with Sundance Institute, will host the second edition of the Faliro House | Sundance Institute Mediterranean Screenwriters Workshop in Costa Navarino, Greece July 3-9. The workshop is designed to support emerging filmmakers from Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and this year will include filmmakers from Cyprus.

The Workshop is a five-day writer's intensive that gives independent screenwriters the opportunity to work on their feature film scripts in an environment that encourages innovation and creative risk-taking. Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), who initiated the Workshop with Christos and serves as Co-Director, consulted with Sundance Institute and Faliro House during project selection.

Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag, longtime Artistic Director at the Institute's renowned Directors Lab in the U.S., will serve as Artistic Director, and will lead group sessions, alongside one-on-one story meetings with each project, where Tsangari and Gazdag will be joined by Creative Advisors Lisa Cholodenko (Olive Kitteridge, The Kids Are Alright), Julie Delpy (Before Midnight, 2 Days In Paris), Jeff Nichols (Loving, Take Shelter), Ruben stlund (Palme d'Or winner The Square, Force Majeure), Ira Sachs (Little Men, Love Is Strange), Zach Sklar (JFK), and Eva Stefani (Bathers, Acropolis). The model for the Workshop is based on the venerable Sundance Institute Screenwriters Labs in the U.S., designed to be an artistically rigorous process that offers lessons in craft, fresh perspectives on their work and a platform to fully realize their material.

Christos V. Konstantakopoulos said, We are excited to be entering our second year of collaboration with Michelle Satter, Paul Federbush and Matthew Takata of the Sundance Institute and are grateful for their commitment to supporting filmmakers from the Mediterranean region. I wish to thank my co-instigator Athina Rachel Tsangari and everyone who has worked on the workshop, as well as our gracious hosts at Costa Navarino. Above all, we are deeply appreciative of the participating fellows and advisors, for their vision, trust, and commitment to their craft.

Paul Federbush, International Director for Sundance Institute's Feature Film Program said, This unique forum, created with Christos V. Konstantakopoulos and Athina Rachel Tsangari supports a diverse and visionary cohort of screenwriting fellows from the region. We are also extremely grateful to have a group of such accomplished filmmakers serve as Creative Advisors--we want to thank our Creative Advisors for generously bringing their breadth of experience and depth of insight to this year's workshop.

The Screenwriting Fellows for the 2017 Faliro House | Sundance Institute Mediterranean Screenwriters Workshop are:

WE KISS IN DARK NIGHTCLUBS AND I EXPLAIN (Greece) / Daphn H r takis

BIO: Daphne He re takis graduated from the University of Paris 8 Saint-Denis and the Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts. Her films combine documentary and fiction and have screened at festivals such as IFF Rottedam, Visions du re el, Hors Pistes Pompidou, Entrevues de Belfort.

LOGLINE: A day in the life of two young girls who wander the streets of Athens creating chaos.

PATTY (Greece) / Giorgos Georgopoulos

BIO: Giorgos Georgopoulos studied directing at the School of Cinematography and Television Likourgou Stavrakou, in Athens. He works as a film editor, a director and producer, mainly for films, documentaries & TV commercials. His award-winning first feature, Tungsten, played several international film festivals.

LOGLINE: Teenager Daphne trains for the Olympics in Judo, and is faced with the ultimate challenge--whether to do the right thing or win at all costs.

NO GOD NO MASTER (Greece) / Loukianos Moschonas

BIO: Based in Athens, Loukianos Moschonas directs commercials, documentaries, theater. His short film Manodopera premiered at Locarno and New Directors/New Films. No God, No Master is his first feature film.

LOGLINE: A twisted class melodrama amid the endless demolition and renovation of an Athens flat, between the affluent son of the building's owner and a middle-aged Albanian hired hand.

MARTIN EDEN (Italy) / Pietro Marcello and Maurizio Braucci

BIOS:

Born in Caserta, Italy in 1976, Pietro Marcello attended the Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied painting. In 2007, his documentary Il passaggio della linea (Crossing the Line) was presented at the 64th Venice International Film Festival. In 2009, his first feature, La bocca del lupo (The Mouth of the Wolf), won Best Film and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 27th Turin Film Festival, the Caligari Preis at the Berlinale, the Signis Prize at BAFICI, and many others. In 2011, Il silenzio di Peles jan (The Silence of Peles jan), which was presented as a special event at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. In 2015 his film Bella e perduta (Lost and Beautiful) was presented at the Locarno Film Festival.

Maurizio Braucci, born in Naples, Italy, in 1966, is a novelist and a screenwriter. His first novel Il Mare Guasto has been translated into French. He co-wrote the screenplays of Gomorrah (2008) and Reality (2012) by Matteo Garrone, both winners of the Grand Prix at Cannes. He worked also with Abel Ferrara (Napoli Napoli Napoli, 2009; Pasolini, 2014), Leonardo di Costanzo (The Interval, 2012; The Intruder, 2016), Giuseppe Gagliardi (Tatanka, 2010), Francesco Munzi (Black Souls, 2014) and Pietro Marcello (Lost and Beautiful, 2015). He directed the short-film Room 52, which played in competition at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.

LOGLINE: Love, life and death, as a young sailor struggles with the boundaries of his own social classes through his ambition and passion for writing.

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