Meet the Future - Storytelling: November 3 - 8

 

Every year Meet the Future, presents to the international industry professionals up-and-coming talents of the Greek film industry. Each year it aims at bringing forth a different branch of Greek cinema professionals.

This year, the program is focusing on screenwriting aiming to support the evolution of contemporary Greek series content and production while maintaining our foundation in cinema. Thus, Meet the Future will serve as a bridge between film and series scripts, titled Storytelling.

The selection for this year's MtF participants consists of emerging screenwriters (or writer-directors) whose films have participated in the official programs of major international festivals or have been awarded for their screenplay at the Drama International Short Film Festival and the Hellenic Film Academy who now have a series project in development.

 

Meet the Future - Participants 2023

 

Asimina Proedrou

Writer / Director

 

George Teltzidis

Writer / Director

 

Fokion Xenos

Director / Designer

 

Neritan Zinxhiria

Filmmaker

 

Orfeas Peretzis

Writer / Filmmaker 

 

 

They will have the opportunity to participate in two tailor-made workshops by experts in their fields. Turn Your Idea Into a Project by producer Julien Leroux and Prepare to (Re)Present Yourself by public speaker coach Bonnie Williams. The two experts will share their insights about the series industry and offer guidance for their presentation and positioning to the industry. The Meet the Future presentation to the audiovisual professionals will be held on November 5.

In addition, a series of morning Masterclasses on Storytelling are scheduled at the Pavlos Zannas Theatre to be presented to the Meet the Future participants and the Thessaloniki audience.

A participant of Meet the Future will be awarded a 5-year free Premium membership subscription on Crew United, the leading online networking platform connecting audiovisual professionals in Europe, now open also in Greece.