he Book of European Short Pitch. - Nisi Masa

TUTORS
FABIENNE AGUADO
f.aguado@moulinande.asso.fr
Fabienne Aguado holds a BA in Film Studies
(thesis about Jacques Tati) and a Masters
Degree in Sociology. Her early professional
life was spent on film sets and on writing film
reviews. Her experience includes managing a
film production company, running evenings for
film clubs, reading scripts and being a regular
member of juries attributing development
grants. `
In 1998, she helped founding the Centre for
Cinematographic Scripts (CÉCI) and has been
managing it for the past seven years. The
CÉCI holds its offices at the Moulin d’Andé, a
cultural association of international reputation
located in Normandy (France) where artists
have found support and inspiration over the
last fifty years. It provides a permanent program
for film screenwriting which supports innovative
and personal projects.
ORSOLYA BENKÖ
orsolya.benko@gmail.com
Based in Budapest, Orsolya Benkö is working
as member of the script development board
of the Hungarian National Film Fund. After
graduating at the Faculty of Cinema Aesthetics
and English Studies at ELTE University
in Budapest, she completed a research work
at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. As part of
her studies, she did a traineeship as a production
and distribution assistant for The Coproduction
Office in Paris.
She has contributed to the organisation
of several film festivals in Budapest and
joined the Hungarian Desk of the MEDIA
Programme. She started collaborating as a
script consultant in 2007 with Hungarian production
companies. In 2010 she participated
as a story editor trainee in the Script&Pitch
Workshops. Currently she is also cooperating
on various Hungarian and international
projects as a script consultant.
ANTOINE LE BOS
Antlebos@aol.com
Antoine Le Bos is a French screenwriter and
script consultant, with 25 feature scripts delivered
under contract, and the experience
of a hundred feature projects followed as a
consultant. After a first life as a sailor and an
interrupted PhD in philosophy, he graduated
from the French Conservatoire for Film writing
in 1996. He directed short films shown
in more than 50 film festivals, and on-stage
experiments (theater, contemporary opera in
Paris and Prague). He then co-created the
animation series Ratz, shown in more than 20
countries. He won the Gan Foundation Prize
as a writer in 2005, and works with among others
the Afghani director and Prix Goncourt Atiq
Rahimi. He teaches screenwriting at Brest
University. Since 2007 he has been the artistic
director of Le Groupe Ouest, European center
for film creation in Brittany (France). He’s
been a tutor for Script & Pitch Workshops and
Torino Film Lab since 2007.
FABIO GRASSADONIA
fabio.grass@yahoo.it
Fabio Grassadonia is an Italian filmmaker
and script consultant. Born in Palermo, he
graduated in Arts and Philosophy with a specialization
in Comparative Literature. After
taking a two year post-graduate diploma in
narrative techniques from the Holden School
in Turin he started to work as a scriptwriter
and script consultant in Rome. He has collaborated
as development consultant and
acquisition consultant for major Italian production
companies, such as Fandango and
Filmauro. In 2004 he wrote with Antonio
Piazza the film Ogni volta che te ne vai, a
romantic musical comedy set among the
night clubs of the Romagna coast, produced
by Fandango. In 2009 the same partnership
between Fabio and Antonio gave life to the
short film Rita, their debut as directors. Rita
is one of most successful Italian short films of
recent years. Fabio and Antonio will realize
their first feature film as directors, Salvo, in
summer 2012.
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