Participants
Aoife Bradshaw
Writer, Irish
Aoife is a screenwriter from Dublin, Ireland. She studied English Literature and Film at Trinity College Dublin and went on to complete an MA in Screenwriting for Film and TV at the National Film School of Ireland. She won the Writers Guild Of Ireland Award for Screenwriting, has taken part in a number of writing …
Georgiana Doba
Writer, Romanian
Geo is a filmmaker who has written and directed two short films, several comedy sketches, and is now working on her first TV series and her first graphic novel. She enjoys writing drama, comedy for both children and adults, as well as crime stories, and has several spec scripts available in English. She sometimes moonlights …
Helena Hofmann
Writer and Producer, German
Helena Hofmann is a writer/producer with production and development experience in Germany, London and Los Angeles. She graduated from Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2018 with a masters in drama series producing and development. Since 2018 she works as a freelance writer and producer for serveral German production companies including Xfilme, RatpackFilm, Ufa Fiction and Studio Hamburg.
George Kellock
Writer, UK
George Kellock is a screenwriter and script editor from the UK. A graduate of the London Film School’s screenwriting program, he currently works as a script editor for film and TV and has developed a variety of international projects in this role.
Karolina Kot
Writer, Polish
Psychologist, prose writer, screenwriter. Author of short stories published, among others, in an anthology edited by Olga Tokarczuk. Screenwriter and head-writer of daily crime TV series, screenwriter of Wartime Girls, and co-writer of series pitched at various European series festivals.
Randy Oost
Writer, Dutch
I was born and raised in the south of the Netherlands, in a rural region bordering Germany and Belgium. After some years of working odd jobs and travelling I landed in the screenwriting department of the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam. Since then I have written for short films, TV series, and feature film projects, …
Nicholas Pierpan
Writer, UK
Nicholas is a screenwriter and playwright, who has won or been nominated for several awards in both forms. Originally from the United States, he has spent most of his adult life in Britain. He lectures in Creative Writing for Royal Holloway, University of London.
Mandi Riggi
Writer, UK/USA
Mandi Riggi’s TV pilot, PeacexPiece was optioned and developed at the Showtime Network. Her feature debut Mercy starring F. Murray Abraham, was selected into Toronto Film Festival’s IFF program, participated at Film London’s PFM, and at the MIA Co-Production Market in Rome. Mandi’s TV series Alex in Wonderland, was one of 16 selected into MIA …
Stefano Romano
Writer, Italian
I graduated in Cinema and Television Studies at the University of Bologna and I took a degree in Scriptwriting at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, where I live and work as a scriptwriter.
Unnsteinn Manuel Stefánsson
Writer, Icelandic
For half is life Unnsteinn Manuel, has been a singer and composer, touring over 30 countries, as well as launching a record label and radio station. In 2014, Unnsteinn started his career as a documentary filmmaker and writer at RÚV, Iceland’s public broadcaster. As a film-maker he has received numerous nominations and two awards at …
Rachel Sur
Writer, USA, Israel
Rachel has spent most of her life going between New York and Tel Aviv. She completed her MFA in writing at Columbia University in 2016. Her feature film screenplay, Shiloh, was a finalist for the Phosphate Prize at IFP in New York in 2015. She has written several short films on commission, and works as …
Andrej Ilievski Volkashin
Writer, Macedonian
Andrey Volkashin has written and directed several short films in Macedonia, Bulgaria and Bosnia, that have premiered at Oscar, Bafta and EFA qualifying festivals around the world. He is currently in early pre-production of his debut feature film developed at the Torino Film Lab and supported by the North Macedonia Film Agency. Andrey is drawn …