11.03.22
Events
In this masterclass, Dea Gjinovci, director of Wake Up on Mars (Tribeca Film Festival 2020) will explore how she came to write, re-write, and re-imagine Wake Up on Mars.
From her first notes and ideas, to her treatment and to the editing phase, when the "real writing" starts. In the masterclass, she will first introduce how she prepared and used writing as a tool to project her visual and narrative inspirations. Using excerpts of her film, she will take you through the "writing" of certain key scenes from her film, then also contrast them with the initial treatment she wrote.
The last part of the masterclass will be dedicated to "how to write a treatment for international film funds?", giving specific tips and guidance to get grant funding.
DEA GJINOVCI / BIOGRAPHY
Dea Gjinovci is a Swiss-Albanian director-producer based in between Paris and Geneva. She is currently a resident at UnionDocs in NYC and participated in the 2021 EsoDoc lab, the 2019 Sundance Talent Forum and is a 2019 Film Independent Fellow. Her award-winning documentary short 'Sans le Kosovo' won Best National Film at Dokufest in 2017. Her debut feature-length documentary ‘Wake Up on Mars’ was co-produced by the Radio Télévision Suisse with the participation of France Télévisions and received support from the Sundance Film Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Doha Film Institute, XTR and was awarded the RTS pitch prize at Visions du Réel 2018. It premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and Visions du Réel in Switzerland, and was selected in more than forty international festivals. She was awarded "Best New Talent" mention at Biografilm Festival 2020 and at ZagrebDox 2021. “Wake Up on Mars” was also nominated for the prestigious "Prix de Soleure" and "Opera Prima" awards at Solothurner Tage 2021. In 2022, it was nominated for Best Documentary at the Swiss Film Awards. As a producer, her most recent projects were pitched at the Sheffield Meet Market, IFP/Gotham Week, Medimed, Edinburgh Pitch, Sunny Side and the Holland Film Meeting. Dea holds a BA (Hons) in Economics and Politics from SOAS (University of London) and a Master in Ethnographic and Documentary Film from UCL (University of London). She speaks four languages: French, English, Italian and Albanian.