Narendra Raghunath

Script Writer's Residency
During the last eighteen years, the European Pépinières program for young artists has been fostering and supporting promotion and mobility of young artists amongst the European artistic scene.

In the frame of the map extension 2009-2010 programme, the Pépinières programme launches a new call for applications for a Script Writers Residency.

In a joint-venture the Binger Filmlab and the Amsterdam Writer's Residency offer a special programme for literary writers in autumn 2010. Foreign writers can apply for a residency period of five months starting in September through to January 2011. The conditions are that you're a published writer under 36 in 2010 and that you have the ambition to follow the Script Development Programme at the Dutch institute Binger Filmlab.

This programme, at the crossroads of Literature and Film, offers the opportunity to work on one of your own (un)published texts and adapt it into a film script. Internationally acclaimed mentors and advisors coach the participants along the way. Some basic knowledge of scenario writing is required. Writers who already have experience with the film industry and whose work is translated into Dutch are given priority. All candidates must be under contract with a publishing house in their country of origin and speak and write a sufficient level of English. A precise description of the adaptation plan you have in mind is an essential part of every application.


The Binger Film Institute

The Amsterdam Writer's Residency has worked with the Binger Filmlab before when in 2007 Witi Ihimaera, a Maori author from New-Zealand, adapted his novel The Matriarch (1986), about the Maori struggle against the loss of their sovereignty, into a film script. Ihimaera found living space in the Spui apartment.

For further information visit www.art4eu.net or contact: map-extension@art4eu.net

Fully completed files, written in ENGLISH must be submitted to Trans Artists, National Co-ordinator for the Netherlands.
E-mail address: m.tuerlings@transartists.nl.

Deadline for application: 1st of December 2009 (midnight Brussels time)

Source :www.transartists.nl