Getting started – inspiration, structure and themes

screenwriting workshop (public lecture and discussion)

The discussion will be moderated by Tanja Hladnik, mentor at the Short Scene, an associate of the PROFeKK programme, and director of the film festival Kino Otok – Isola Cinema. Short Scene is a half-year intensive workshop that combines screenwriting theory and practise, idea development, and script production for a short film. This year’s Short Scene is the eighth in a row, however, enriched and updated since 2022. What’s more, for the first time in its existence, it is being supported by the Directors Guild of Slovenia in collaboration with the Slovenian Film Centre and in partnership with Kraken, the Society for Short Film Promotion. Find out more at dsr.si. Short Scene’s guest mentor, Christian Gamst Miller-Harris, will talk about how to view a script and the process of writing it as useful tools. He will address questions such as how screenwriters approach projects, which subjects are compelling enough to warrant a film, where to find inspiration, and how to build a structure. He will reveal his own writing processes and tools, which others may find useful when things go well or when you hit a block. Christian Gamst Miller-Harris is an English-Danish screenwriter, who has been working as a screenwriter since 2011, when he graduated in screenwriting from Den Danish Film School, he has been writing exclusively for film and television. His screenwriting credits include Brakland/Sticks and Stones, which premiered at the Montreal Nouveau du Cinema Festival (2018), and has been a guest speaker at several international film festivals and received the Danish Film Award Academy Award and two nominations. Christian has also written the screenplay for Helium, which won both an Oscar and an Robert Award from the Danish Academy and the OFF International Award Odense International Film Festival, as well as the screenplay for MINI, which was also winner of the OFF Translated with DeepL.com (free version)