Tutors
Miguel López Beraza
Miguel López Beraza is an architect, filmmaker and script consultant from Madrid. He studied at DOCNOMADS, a film directing MA based in lisbon, Budapest and Brussels. Miguel completed his education, studying scriptwriting at San Antonio de los Baños Filmschool in Cuba (eICTV).
His films have received national and international awards, including the goya academy award 2015, New Horizons IFF 2017 and Warsaw IFF grand Prix 2022. And his work has been programmed in festivals such as Rotterdam IFFR, DOK Leipzig and Sarajevo. Since 2017, Miguel has combined his film practice with his work as a script consultant and mentor in script development workshops like LIM | Less is More, TorinoFilmLab, The Creatives, European Writers Club (Le Groupe Ouest) and Locarno Open Doors. Besides that, he has designed script development programs for the International Coproduction Forum of Madrid and the Netflix-Spanish Film Academy Campus.
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Line Langebek
Line Langebek is a Danish-born screenwriter, living in London, who has worked as a commissioned writer on numerous shorts and feature films in the UK, US, France, Denmark, and Norway. Her past screen credits include the feature film I’LL COME RUNNING, the 30-min drama SINK OR SWIM for Channel 4, the Albanian-set documentary DUAM DRÏTE: WE WANT LIGHT for French television, EVERGREEN, ANONYMOUS as well as FIELD STORY for BFI’s big budget Shorts Scheme. She was the head writer and wrote a dozen episodes for the children’s comedy TV-series ROYALS NEXT DOOR.
In 2015, she co-founded Raising Films together with a small group of producers, writers and directors, to campaign for better working conditions in the film and TV industry for parents and carers. She is a member of the WGGB’s Film Committee and is part of The Dissonant Futures Collective, supported by Arts Council England. In 2023/2024, she has also been funded by ACE to work on a novel.
Line is an alumnus of the Guiding Lights programme (mentor Frank Cottrell-Boyce), as well as the Berlinale Talent Campus, and she is currently working on feature film and TV commissions in the UK and Denmark. Her most recent feature film, THE GIRL WITH THE NEEDLE (co-written with director Magnus von Horn) was in Official Competition in Cannes 2024 and had its North American premiere at TIFF24 too.
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Simão Cayatte
Simão Cayatte is a writer and director born in 1984 in Lisbon into a Portuguese/Finnish family. He studied theatre and live-art at Goldsmiths University in London and film at Columbia University in New York, where he later also worked as a script development trainee at Darren Aronofksy’s Protozoa Pictures. He has directed multiple shorts including “A Viagem” (The Trip), selected at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Cinefóndation and “Menina” (Young Lady), selected by Les César Les Nuits en Or programme as one of the top European short films of 2017. His practice as an actor has had a strong influence on his writing as well as his work with actors. His first feature film “Vadio” (Drifter), a Portuguese co-production with France and Poland developed at the 2017 edition of LIM | Less is More premiered at the Lisbon Film Festival 2022 and was since awarded at several international film festivals. He recently directed the TV series “Vanda” produced by Legendary Pictures, La Panda and SPi which was selected for the Berlinale Series Selects 2022. He combines his work as filmmaker with his practice as script-consultant. In 2024, he is preparing his second feature film, produced by Leopardo Filmes.
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Aurélie Valat
Aurélie Valat, born in 1977 in Paris, from a Greek mother and a French father.
An educational background in four steps, first theater and acting at Cours d’Art Dramatique Jean Périmony, then Cinema at NYU-SCPS with a certificate in directing 16mm, then Professional Coaching at l’Académie du Coaching, and lastly a degree in Narrative Therapy at Aix-Marseille University.
A professional life that goes from co-writing feature films for the cinema (with directors as Yann Gozlan, Thomas Kruithof, Emma Luchini, Simon Moutaïrou, Eric Valli), to individual consultations on projects (for writers, directors, actors, and amateurs), to creative workshops associating writing and walking in the island of Crete.
In 2024, developing a documentary film.
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Development angels’ Dancing Partners
Vinca Wiedemann
Vinca Wiedemann graduated as a film editor from National Film School of Denmark, but she soon moved into script development.
As film commissioner at the Danish Film Institute and founding artistic director of New Danish Screen, she was responsible for granting development and production support to numerous feature films and was instrumental in the rise of Danish cinema.
Vinca is an internationally esteemed script consultant and story supervisor on films and tv series for directors such as Lars von Trier who has collaborated closely with her on his scripts for MELANCHOLIA and NYMPHOMANIAC as well as on his next feature film. She has worked regularly with Susanne Bier and has recently worked with Thomas Vinterberg on his upcoming TV series.
She was Director of The National Film School of Denmark, is Senior Advisor for European Writers Club, and serves internationally as member of think tanks, film juries, keynote speaker and as a tutor and lecturer on artistic collaboration and film issues linked to the development process, innovation, education, and film policy.
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Jan Schomburg
Jan Schomburg, *1976 wrote and directed movies (« Above us only sky » 2011, « Forget my Self » 2014, « Divine » 2020), wrote screenplays together with Maria Schrader (« Stefan Zweig – Farewell to Europe », « I’m your man ») and wrote two novels (« Das Licht und die Geräusche », 2017, « Die Möglichkeit eines Wunders », 2024).
Secretly he even wrote and directed sketch comedy for German Television.
His films were shown at Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, New York, among others. He was awarded the German Film Prize for the screenplay for « I’m your man », the film « Stefan Zweig – Farewell to Europe » won the Audience Award of the European Film Academy.
In 2024, he is the head author and showrunner of « Other people’s money » (WT), an eight-part international TV series for ZDF and DR airing in March 25.
Jan Schomburg collaborates with Le Groupe Ouest since 2023.
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