CIAK project: Greece – Puglia Experience Screenwriting Workshop Participants Evaluation Results

Submission Period: 13-03-2019 17:00 - 08-04-2019 22:59 CET (UTC+1)

Greece – Puglia Experience Screenwriting Workshop - Three week Screenwriting Workshop: week 1 Corfu, week 2 Epirus, week 3 Bari
The Department of Audio & Visual Arts (Ionian University) is organizing the “Greece – Puglia Experience Screenwriting Workshop“. The Workshop is part of the CIAK (Common Initiatives to AcKnowledge and valorize tourism potential of the programme area through cinema, INTERREG GREECE – ITALY) and the objective is to bring together the areas of western Greece (Ionian Islands, Epirus, Western Greece) and Puglia Region through film scripts.

Acknowledging the potential role of the screen industry as a catalyst for tourism development is the milestone of CIAK project actions, whose objective is the promotion of the involved areas through cross-border initiatives linked to the audiovisual and cinema sector. The cultural and natural heritage represents a primary motivation for more than 50% of travels to touristic destinations: in this respect, the valorization of the heritage through hosting film crew or similar events, may foster the integration of territorial resources and improve the attractiveness of these areas with positive socio-economic impacts, starting from an increasing number of visitors and the creation of new sustainable services for tourists. CIAK aims to have a long-lasting impact that could develop specific transnational policies supporting creative industries. Therefore, the project intends to pave the way so that tourism policies’ managers could work together for the first time, bridging the gap of knowledge relating to the economic benefits of a stronger synergy and implementing new models to promote the cultural and natural heritage through cinema.

Greece – Puglia Experience Screenwriting Workshop has no cost of participation (totally free of charge). In addition, all expenses related to travel, accommodation and food are covered and organized in their entirety by CIAK.

Applicants can submit their proposal but the total number of participants is limited to 15 (fifteen). Priority is given to specific selection criteria.
All applicants must submit the corresponding documents via the online application system: https://ciak.avarts.ionio.gr/participants/. All the documents must be written in English.

Deadline for applications: 08-04-2019 22:59 CET (UTC+1).
NB: Only one application per person is allowed; your unique Passport or ID Number will be used as a means of verification of your identity.

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Art Director of the Workshop: Alexandros Avranas
Alexandros Avranas is an award-winning director, documentary filmmaker and screenwriter. With his first feature film "without", he won seven awards at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Best Film, Best Newcomer Director, First Female Role, Best Photography, etc.) and the prize for Best Picture at the International Film Festival in Milan. For the movie “Miss Violence”, he won the Silver Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for Best Director, the Coppa Volpi for the Men's First Role and two other awards (2013). The film won 12 more international awards, including the Best Screenplay prize at the Stockholm Film Festival. The movie "Love me Not", was premiered at the San Sebastian International Competition, where it divided the international critics with the hardness of its subject. The movie has participated at 30 international festivals and has been screened in foreign countries, such as Sweden, Portugal, China, etc.

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For more information please contact av-ciak@ionio.gr.