workshops

Sources 2 workshops offer professional script development and advanced training for professionals working on a specific film project.

Experienced script advisers provide a range of ‘tools’ to foster the participants' writing and storytelling skills and to develop their projects to their full potential.

Sources 2 offers two workshop formats focusing on script development:

  • Sources 2 Script Development Workshop, the ‘classical’ format
  • Sources 2 Compact, an intensive short version of the latter

participants

Our workshops are tailored to European screenwriters and teams of writers and co-writers, directors or producers developing a film project. Team participation is encouraged to strengthen creative partnerships and increase the efficiency of the development process.

projects required

The programme is open to feature-length film projects addressing a broad international audience: Feature films and creative documentaries for the screen (cinema, television, other platforms).

Submission requirements include:

  • Feature films: treatment or script draft.
  • Creative documentaries: presentation at a basic stage of development.

formats

Sources 2 Script Development Workshop

Each workshop is a three-month process involving three to four groups per max. five projects each guided by one adviser.

The working language is English.

  • Seven-day residential workshop with group and one-to-one sessions incl. supplementary programme.
  • Three-month re-writing period in close contact with other group members and coached by the advisers.
  • Follow-up session of one day per project (conceived as a group meeting, e.g. a group with five projects would meet for five days). Exceptionally, an individual one-day meeting with the adviser would be possible instead.

Sources 2 Compact

Each workshop is a three-month process involving two groups per max. five projects each guided by one adviser.

The working language is English.

  • Five-day residential workshop with group and one-to-one sessions.
  • Three-month re-writing period in close contact with other group members and coached by the advisers.
  • Follow-up session of half-a-day per project (conceived as a group meeting, e.g. a group with five projects would meet for 2,5 days). Alternatively, one-to-one Skype meetings with the adviser would be possible instead.