Göteborg Storytelling Days
We invite you to three afternoons with focus on creative collaborations and processes: masterclasses, meetups, storytelling & screenwriting. The event is free but the seats are limited, so register as soon as possible to secure your participation.
Welcome!
Alma Manusutbildning, Kulturakademin, Lindholmen Science Park, YRGO Manusförfattare, Filmkontoret Göteborg stad, Region Värmland
Monday 27 January
ELLIS FREEMAN
Tales from the Writers Gym
Date & Time: Monday 27 January, 13.00-17.00 (incl. coffee break)
Venue: Visual Arena, Lindholmspiren 3-5
INTERACTIVE LECTURE
Where do ideas come from? How can I develop them into stories? How do I stay fresh and playful? Can I exercise my imagination? How do I get better as a writer? What can I do when I am stuck?
For fifteen years Ellis Freeman has been holding the Writers Gym, a workshop in creative screenwriting in search of the answers to these very questions. The class is a playful exploration, designed to stimulate the creative brain and exercise our story-making muscles. Here, he shares the lessons he has learnt from his experiences.
About Ellis
Formerly a print and TV journalist, Ellis Freeman is a screenwriter born in London, currently the Head of Screenwriting at the DFFB in Berlin. Read more about Ellis Freeman here >
Tuesday 28 January
VINCA WIEDEMANN
The Art of Collaboration
Date & Time: Tuesday 28 January, 13.00-17.00 (incl. coffee break)
Venue: Visual Arena, Lindholmspiren 3-5
PANEL
Talent development, the industry and the creative process. How do we prepare future screenwriters and directors for the film and television industry? A conversation about film education, their role in the talent development's ecosystem and relationship with the industry.
Moderator: Anne-Marie Söhrman Fermelin
In the panel: Maria Hedman Hvitfeldt, Prefect Department of Film and Media at Stockholm Uniarts, Dragan Mitic, screenwriter and head teacher at Yrgo's Screenwriting education. Sara Broos, filmmaker and educational director Alma Screenwriting education. Andrea Östlund, director and Senior lecturer at Valand Academy.
LECTURE - THE ARE OF COLLABORATION
A lecture with VINCA WIEDEMANN on creative collaborations / processes and how to create a good working climate from the screenwriters point of view.
The vast majority of film development processes are collective processes, and as the media develops, collaboration takes place in increasingly complex teams. How can this be an advantage for the artistic process? What does it take to achieve a successful collaboration where there is room for both singularity, creativity, deadlines, fragility and doubt?
Vinca Wiedemann will talk about this based on her own observations and experiences through her collaborations with a large number of hellish, vain and sensitive film people.
About Vinca
Vinca Wiedemann has since 1980 worked as a film editor, script consultant, producer, talent developer and principal. Read more about Vinca Wiederman here >
Wednesday 29 January
JOHN YORKE
INTO THE WOODS – How stories work and why we tell them
Date & Time: Wednesday 29 January, 13:00-16:30 (incl. coffee break)
Venue: Visual Arena, Lindholmspiren 3-5
N.B PLEASE VISIT KULTURAKADEMIN.COM TO SIGN UP FOR JOHN YORKE'S LECTURE >
LECTURE
In his bestselling book Into the Woods, John Yorke argues that story structure is hardwired into human perception: all stories are essentially the same because they reflect the way in which we make sense of the world.
What is this deep-rooted story DNA? Put simply, a hero meets their opposite, assimilates it and is changed. Every story, at some level, follows this pattern – whether in a video game, novel or brand story. It’s the natural way that the human brain interprets and organises information. In Into the Woods, John uses examples gathered over his 30-year career studying and teaching five-act story structure while making film and TV drama watched by millions of people around the globe.
Into the Woods is just not a how-to book for scriptwriters. It is a philosophical approach to communicating more effectively, in a way that resonates with the deepest part of the human psyche – through story.
The lecture includes
Structure and Writers Rooms - How structural theory works in the real world. The mechanics of Writers Rooms and how they fit into a larger chain of production. Touching on how giving notes, feedback and best behaviours.
Television Structure - The rules of television structure how technology has transformed the way we tell stories and how television has learned to manipulate structure for both economic and artistic end. From old fashioned series and serials, to modern Closed Season arcs – we explore just how modern television drama works – includes brief practical exercise.
About John
John Yorke is a BAFTA winner and Visiting Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He lives in London but works as a story consultant worldwide. Read more about John Yorke here >
N.B PLEASE VISIT KULTURAKADEMIN.COM TO SIGN UP FOR JOHN YORKE'S LECTURE >