Call for Projects - INDUSTRIAL CULTURE: Writing Workshop Dedicated to Screenplay Development

The Grand Est Region, through the CinEuro Film Lab, in partnership with the Saarland State Chancellery, through Filmförderung Saarland, offers filmmakers from the CinEuro area (Upper Rhine and Greater Region) the opportunity to develop a concrete audiovisual project with the benefit of professional dramaturgical support.

The workshop focuses on the theme of “industrial culture” in all its thematic diversity: from industrial labour and structural transformations to technological innovation and economic change, as well as the social, political and personal stories connected to industrial environments and ways of life.

Participants will receive professional dramaturgical input on their project and will have the opportunity to refine the foundations of their subject in collaboration with the workshop facilitator and the group. At the end of the workshop, the essential foundations will be in place to enable participants to subsequently develop a solid treatment based on the revised project outline.

CALENDAR

• Friday, 13 November 2026

  Deadline for participants to submit their synopsis.

  The synopsis will then be made available to the workshop facilitator and all participants for reading.

• Saturday, 28 November 2026

  The submitted projects will be discussed collectively.

  The discussion will focus on the underlying idea, dramaturgy, characters or protagonists, conflicts, narrative point of view, structure and the specific potential of each project.

• Monday, 4 January 2027

  Deadline for submission of the revised synopses following the first exchange session.

  The revised synopses will once again be made available to the workshop facilitator and all participants in advance, in order to prepare the collective discussion.

• Saturday, 9 January 2027

  The revised projects will once again be discussed collectively and further developed from a dramaturgical perspective.

  The central question will concern the decisions to be made for the further development of the project and the subsequent drafting of a treatment.

DEADLINE : 30/10/2026 (11:59 PM)

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