Participant profile: Cameron McCracken

Our last call for tonight is in England, where we meet Cameron McCracken, Managing Director of Pathe UK. Cameron is a member of the British Screen Advisory Council, the British Council Film Committee and a director of Screen Yorkshire. Prior to his appointment at Pathe 10 years ago, Cameron was Director of Business Affairs at [...]

Participant profile: Susin Lindblom

We swing by Sweden late tonight, where we meet Susin Lindblom. Susin graduated in Law in 1981, and has been Managing Director of the Sveriges Dramatikerförbund (Swedish Playwrights Union) since 1995. At  present she is also an expert for the Swedish Commission on Copyright. Her work concentrates on strengthening the economic and moral rights of [...]

Participant profile: Yves Légaré

We travel over the ocean to Canada now, to meet union activist, Yves Légaré. The General Manager of the Société des Auteurs de Radio, Télévision et Cinéma (SARTEC) since 1989, Yves Légaré has a Master’s degree in History from Université Laval. Author of a Dictionnaire des écrivains québécois contemporains published in 1983, he was involved [...]

Participant profile: Maciej Karpinski

We arrive in Poland, where we look in on screenwriter and producer Maciej Karpinski. Maciej is considered one of the leading film writers in Poland, and the author of several books, including a text on screenwriting: An Imperfect Reflection – considered essential reading in his country – as well as plays for theatre and television, [...]

Participant profile: Ulrike Schweiger

It’s over to Austria now to discover more about screenwriter and director Ulrike Schweiger. Born and raised in Austria, Ulrike Schweiger is a writer and director who currently works in Berlin and Vienna. She lived in Long Beach, California in 1983, studied art in Brussels from 1987 to 1988 and attended Stanford University in 1989. [...]

A note from Vicenzo Cerami

Unfortunately, Italian screenwriter Vicenzo Cerami will not be able to attend the conference. However, he has sent us a message about his experiences with screenwriting, along with some advice, and we hope you will find it inspiring. I’m a creature of the set. I discovered cinema with Pier Paolo Pasolini, working with him first as [...]

Participant profile: Michel Sabbe

Now we zip over to Belgium, the home of screenwriter Michel Sabbe. Michel has been writing screenplays for more years than he cares to remember. He writes both in Dutch and in English and has worked on drama-series for all the major Belgian television channels. Most recently, this included Jes (Eyeworks, VTM), a dramedy about [...]

Participant profile: João Nunes

It’s a quick stop off in Portugal, to meet screenwriter and director João Nunes. João Nunes is a Portuguese screenwriter with more than 2000 minutes of fiction produced from his screenplays, including four feature films (one more is being shot in October 2009), five television movies, several short movies, and dozens of one-hour television episodes. [...]

Weather watch

As we get closer to the conference I’m sure many of our attendees are beginning to wonder what the weather might be like in Athens in early November. My research indicates that the average high is 18.1°C (65°F) and the average low is 9.8°C (50°F), with the average monthly precipitation being 58.3 mm (2.3 inches). [...]

Participant profile: Marta Raventós Pedret

It’s back to Spain to meet the manager of Forum de Asociaciones de Guionistas del Audiovisual (FAGA), Marta Raventós Pedret. Marta was born in Cervelló, and obtained a degree in History of Art from the University of Barcelona (UB). She later specialised in museology, and received a Diplome Spéciale de Muséologie from École du Louvre, [...]

Participant profile: Jochen Brunow

We alight in Germany, and discover screenwriter Jochen Brunow. Born in Rendsburg, Nothern Germany, Jochen studied German Literature and Journalism in Berlin. Afterwards, he wrote as a critic for newspapers and journals, founded the Magazine FILME and was one of its editors. Since 1980 he worked as a screenwriter for film and television. He has [...]