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WORKING CAMPUSWORKING CAMPUSTALENTS ARE BUZZING AROUND INVOLVED IN A VARIETY OF EXCITING PROJECTS – RIGHT THROUGH THE CAMPUS WEEK. FROM SCRIPT WRITINGTO MAKING “GARAGE FLICKS”, COMPOSING SCORES AND REVIEWING FILMS – THEIR CREATIVE JUICES ARE FLOWING AROUND THE CLOCK.Working on scripts face to face in the Script & Doc ClinicsTHE TALENT PRESSEight young journalists, in Berlin to acquaint themselveswith current trends in world cinema, will present their impressionsand insights into the films and events of the Campusand the Berlin International Film Festival by writing dailyreports, reviews, features and interviews. These articles canbe read on the Talent Press website at www.talentpress.orgas well as www.fipresci.org and www.goethe.de.In its fourth edition, Talent Press is once again made possiblethrough the valued support of the Goethe-Institut, GoetheForum and FIPRESCI. Four prominent film writers, Derek Malcolm(The Guardian), Jérémie Couston (Télérama), SabineVogel (Berliner Zeitung) and Peter Cowie (writer and formerinternational publishing editor for Variety) will assist theyoung press talents, en couraging them to generate original,high quality film journalism.Chosen from close to 170 applications, this year’s TalentPress participants are: Donal Foreman (Ireland), MalwinaGrochowska (Poland), Taran Khan (India), Nil Kural (Turkey),Lung Chieh Lim (Singapore), Leonardo Mecchi (Brazil), AliceDanhua Wang (China) and Sarah Stähli (Switzerland).THE SCRIPT & DOC CLINICThe Script & Doc Clinic is firmly anchored to the BerlinaleTalent Campus as an integral part of the Working Campus,providing selected young filmmakers the opportunity toobtain concrete results and feedback on their current filmprojects. Supported by the German Federal Film Fund FFA,12 documentary filmmakers and 11 scriptwriters will formthe 2007 group of participants. Their scripts and proposalsin German or English language have been selected fromover 280 applications. Situated at HAU 3, these Talents arebeing offered a non-public, concentrated workshop situationwith 11 mentors from different countries, but also intensiveone-to-one meetings with the experts: Two coachingsessions are scheduled with time in-between to developquestions and ideas. The Script & Doc Clinic also includesspecial meetings and lectures, creating a unique space forinteraction between Talents from around the world to talkabout local story telling, and methods of writing and scriptdevelopment.Selected projects will make a public appearance during theCampus:“Sparkling Tales“ is a presentation of three scenes from fictionscripts, to be directed and acted by the Talents themselvesand moderated by Rajendra Roy, Programme Director,Hamptons International Film Festival.“Burning Stories“ consists of two parts – a panel on the basicdevelopment of global documentary filmmaking and thepresentation of three documentary projects from the DocClinic.This year’s mentors for the Script Clinic include the wellknownexperts Franz Rodenkirchen (Script House, Germany),Alby James (Leeds University, UK), Gaby Prekop (Sources2,Hungary), Gyula Gazdag (UCLA, USA), Julian Friedmann(Blake & Friedmann Agency, UK), and Marten Rabarts (BingerFilmlab, Netherlands).16BERLINALE TALENT CAMPUS #5