All three winning screenplays in the main category already have producers attached. The Czech Republic’s Film Foundation is an initiative that aims to support preparation for screenwriting in the field of domestic fiction filmmaking. The institution spotlights domestic projects through its annual scriptwriting competition, which is now celebrating 15 years of existence. During this period, the Film Foundation has supported 100 projects by 105 scriptwriters with the total sum of €412,214, while 13 projects have successfully been produced and released. An array of previous winners have recently been finished, including Marek Epstein’s script for the Agnieszka Holland-directed biopic Charlatan, which was unveiled at this year’s Berlinale; Petr Václav’s epic period biopic Il Boemo (see the news); Pavel Göbl’s tragicomedy Silent Companion (see the news), which will be released on 1 October; the period drama Kryštof by Zdeněk Jirásky (see the news); and Petr Zelenka’s dramedy Droneman (see the news), which.
Czech director-screenwriter-author Pavel Göbl explores the rather unusual idea of vertical burials with his latest project. Czech film and television director, screenwriter, producer and author Pavel Göbl (whose last feature film was the black-and-white dramedy Supervising the Meaning of Dreams in 2018) is in post-production with his latest feature-length project, the tragicomedy Silent Companion. Göbl is adapting his own novel of the same name, his literary debut for which he won the domestic Discovery of the Year Award, and which, in fact, he originally adapted from the screenplay (which scooped the Rwe Award for the best as-yet-unmade script). His literary works are written in an absurd style. Silent Companion is no different, billed as a rural...
- 11/14/2019
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