My First Screenplay

The workshop is conceived as active individual work on a screenwriting project, mentored by two experienced script doctors. Six screenplay projects by directors, writers, or co-writers currently working on their first feature film screenplay have been selected among the applications received through the open call. The workshop is organised in cooperation with the Croatian Film Directors’ and Producers’ Association and MIDPOINT Institute.

closed to the public

Script Doctor

ANTONIO NUIĆ

A writer and director. He graduated in Film and TV Directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where he has been working as a professor since 2013. He directed a segment of the anthology film Sex, Booze and Short Fuse (2004), after which he went on to write and direct All for Free (2005), Donkey (2009), Life Is a Trumpet (2015) and Mali (2018).

Script Doctor

JELENA PALJAN

Jelena Paljan is a Croatian screenwriter. She holds master’s degrees in Film and TV Editing and in Dramaturgy from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where since 2024 she has been teaching Feature Film Screenwriting. As a screenwriter, she has received awards for the short fiction film Cherries (2017), the drama series The Last Socialist Artefact (2021), and the feature film Celebration (2024). In addition to writing for film and television, she works as a script editor and script doctor.

Guest Lecturer

PAVEL MAREK

Czech director and writer. During the communist era, he co-founded an underground film association Bulsitfilm, which put him in the circle of surrealistic filmmakers. He acted in films by the surrealist director Jan Svankmajer. His feature film Dead Beetle (1998) won the Volkskrant Critics Award at IFF Rotterdam. He wrote scripts for the animation series Pat and Mat. Currently works as a Professor in the Department of Directing at FAMU, as Head of Studies of MIDPOINT Shorts, and a script consultant.