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Young Horizons Lab 2024/2025, script development workshop
The programme focuses on script development of live-action and animation films and series at different stages of development. Our participants together with our tutor Philip LaZebnik work on their projects during three on-site sessions (group work) and individual consultations with Philip (between each session).
Sessions dates:
1st session: 24–25 October 2024
2nd session: 5–6 December 2024
3rd session: 6–7 February 2025
Location:
Centrum Szkoleniowe Wspólna
ul. Wspólna 56
The Young Horizons Lab (2024/2025) is co-organised by Young Horizons, a part of the New Horizons Association and Creative Europe Desk Poland. The programme is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.
Call for projects is currently closed but more information is available.
Questions? Please contact: magda.wylezalek@nowehoryzonty.pl.
Meet our tutor
Philip is a screenwriter, playwright and a screenwriting consultant. Originally associated with Disney Studios and Dream Works. 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.
Aleksandra is a talent manager for filmmakers, script consultant, and development advisor. 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.
