Lab 2024/2025

Philip is a screenwriter, playwright and a screenwriting consultant. Originally associated with Disney Studios and DreamWorks. His screenwriting credits include “Mulan” and “Pocahontas” for Disney, and “The Prince of Egypt” and “The Road to El Dorado” for DreamWorks, among many others.

He has written the book for the theatrical musical “The Prince of Egypt” with songs by Stephen Schwartz, which opened at the Dominion Theatre in London’s West End in February, 2020.

Philip has considerable experience in film teaching: Polish Film School (Lodz, Poland), Bridging the Dragon (Mentor, China), North by Northwest (Tutor, Bornholm), Animationhus (Workshop, Viborg) and worked as a Film/Story Consultant for: “Antz” and “Shrek” (Story consultant, DreamWorks Feature Animation and PDI), “Lion King 1 ½” and “Mulan II” (Disney Television Animation), and numerous other films.

Philip’s goal is to foster a positive, supportive environment in the room, where we can discuss the screenwriting tools which are useful not only for developing the project in the workshop but also future scripts. These tools include analyzing story structure, understanding character motivations, and knowing what questions to ask when writing a script.

Ronald Kruschak is a producer, writer and tutor/lecturer with a track record of over twenty years of filmmaking focusing on family entertainment. Ronald has produced Germany’s most successful TV series “Die Pfefferkörner” as well as small national and big budget international movies, such as “The Three Investigators” (Disney, over a million tickets sold) or “Die Rote Zora”. With his company Playwrite, he develops and produces live-action and animation series and films.

Aleksandra is a script consultant, and development advisor with experience in talent and production management. A graduate of the Film School in Katowice and the Wajda School, she has completed courses and workshops for producers (Midpoint Feature Launch), as well as workshops for script consultants (MFI Script 2 Film, Script Atelier). She is also a graduate of Gender Studies at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IBL PAN).

In her approach to script development, the most important aspect for her is always discovering the protagonist’s truth and how it resonates with the contemporary world, which we are now learning to describe anew.

Agata Darlasi is a writer, coach, storytelling strategist. She has many years of experience in the development of audiovisual material (since 2007) as a director, screenwriter, documentarist and development consultant. She has also been the Curator of Educational Programs for the development of audiovisual material in various bodies and organizations since 2012. Her talks, workshops, and masterclasses are presented at Film Festivals and various events and cities around Europe.