with Christine Kiauk
Date: Sat, 26.04.2025
Registration deadline: Sun, 13.04.2025
Target group: Beginners with previous experience in script development or writing for film as well as initial knowledge of the film industry
The one-day online seminar DEVELOPMENT with Christine Kiauk focuses on the targeted further development and strategic positioning of film projects. The focus is on the question of how to turn a promising idea into a convincing and realisable project. The focus is on critically analysing the feasibility of project ideas and shedding light on key questions from a production perspective:
- What makes the project unique and distinctive?
- Why is it important to tell this story now?
- Is the idea dramaturgically viable, and how can the plot be designed even more precisely?
- Are the characters well developed and how do they interact credibly with each other?
- Which target group does the project appeal to and how can it be strategically positioned?
A regular, external view of one’s own work is of particular importance. Only through such a distanced view is it possible to work out the full potential of a project and optimally prepare it for realisation.
Prerequisites for participation: The first step for participation in the seminar is the development of your own film idea. Participants should have already concretised their project idea and completed essential preliminary work. This includes having a coherent synopsis of the film, defining the central characters and knowing their backstories. It is important that the authors already know their characters and the world in which their story takes place.
The DEVELOPMENT seminar then takes a fresh, scrutinising look at the material. This enables the participants to look at their projects from a new perspective, recognise weak points and work on them in a targeted manner. The joint discussion during the seminar helps to further emphasise the uniqueness and relevance of the stories so that the projects are not only creatively convincing, but can also be optimally positioned strategically.
Christine Kiauk is the managing director of COIN FILM in Cologne and an experienced producer who has been working in the film industry for many years. She began her career as an advertising saleswoman and then studied communication science, economic policy and psychology at the University of Münster, where she graduated with an M.A. degree. From 1995 to 2000, she gained extensive experience in event management and press relations in the film and cultural sector. She was a project assistant on numerous film and TV productions and also worked for several years as a freelance editor for film funding organisations. She has worked as a production manager since 2001 and joined COIN FILM as a producer in 2003. In this role, she has realised numerous feature and documentary films as well as international co-productions. Many of her films have won awards at international festivals and have been shown in cinemas. She is a member of the German Film Academy and ACE producers (Atéliers du Cinéma Européen – network for independent European film producers).
Further information: www.coin-film.de
Dates: Sat, 26.04.2025
Time: 09 – 16 h
Registration deadline: Sun, 13.04.2025
Costs: € 140.00 / € 100.00 Further information on funding opportunities can be found here
Number: min. 6 participants / max. 8 participants
Language: German
Location: Online via Zoom