LIM - Less Is More: Pre-writing workshop

Dato: Uke 41.

Oppmøte, med middag søndag 10. oktober kl 17:00. Workshop mandag-fredag, 11.-15. oktober 09:00-17:00

Sted: Filmens hus, Dronningensgate 16, Oslo. Eventuelt digitalt.

Deltakeravgift: 1500 kroner per deltaker (inkluderer lunsjer og middag søndag 10.  oktober). (Muligheter for å søke reisestøtte for deltakere utenfor østlandsområdet dersom du blir valgt ut til å delta)

Språk: Engelsk

Søknadsfrist: Mandag 20. september

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Target group: Directors, screenwriters, producers

Less is more (LIM) is open for filmmakers with a first, second or third feature project. Filmmakers who have already made their 1st feature film and are working on their 2nd or 3rd feature will be prioritized.

We are aiming for a physical workshop in Oslo, but if the Covid situation makes it impossible to meet in Oslo in October we will switch to an online workshop

”The enemy of art is the absence of limitations”
Orson Welles
 

In partnership with the development program LIM I Less is more, NFI offers a five-day workshop that focuses on the development before entering the writing process.

This workshop aims to get a deeper understanding of how the brain works during its creative phases when ideas emerge and how ideas implement themselves to gain consistency.

The workshop helps the participants to get into research mode, explore and generate new ideas. It inspires you to play with the possibilities that accompany every idea. They teach you how to use constraints to push creativity further. The participants are given tools and methods to release their creative energy, interact playfully with their intellectual material, and generate various story ideas. The participants are supported while testing their story plot to determine if they are worth being developed in a feature-length film.

Two international script consultants from LIM/Le Groupe Ouest will create a safe environment and invite the participants to tackle their ideas and strengthen them through theory and practical exercises.

The workshop is not designed to work mainly on projects the participants are currently occupied with. Pre-writing is really the work on «no idea» or the beginning of it, but not on a very specific advanced project. Nevertheless, the experience and knowledge that the participants will gain will also positively influence the work on their current projects.

LIM’s program and methodology has been developed mainly for fiction projects. Authors from documentaries are welcome if they want to work also on fiction projects.

To apply for the workshop
e-mail CV, motivation letter and max one-page idea outline (optional) of a current project to Rune Tellefsen rune.tellefsen@nfi.no  in English.

Deadline: Monday September 20th.   

This pre-writing workshop will function as the local Norwegian event before the call for LIM 2022, please see below.

Please note that the working language of the workshop will be English.

Selected regional participants (outside of Oslo-area) may be eligible to apply for travel support. More information after selection.

This will be the third time we’ve had the Prewriting workshop in Norway, please see a short statement by one of the earlier participants, Kaveh Tehrani, here.
 

About LIM – Less is More

For further information about LIMs programme, its methodology and the LIM Prewriting Workshop, please watch the introductory presentation by Antoine Le Bos, Artistic Director of LIM I Less is more.

StoryTANK, the European Think Tank focusing on storytelling
We brought together experienced writers of screenplays and fiction, and allowed them a prospective and pragmatic work process with researchers in adjacent fields, like cognitive or social sciences, physiology, mathematics, neuroscience… It’s about cogitating together, in a non-dogmatic, European and humanist perspective, about the function – both physiological and social – of the story using images and sound, keeping in mind the new ways of a generation transformed by the digital revolution. For videos and podcasts, please see more here

TBA – call for LIM 2022

NFI is a partner of the LIM I Less is more annual program and will publish the call for their next edition in autumn. For more info on the annual program, please watch this short clip or read more here.