Berlin 2011

Babylon International kicked off its annual programme with a residential script development workshop in Berlin (23-29 May), again bringing together filmmakers from Europe and West Africa.

An impressive 17 feature film projects were selected for this year's edition, from Austria, Belgium, Bukina Faso, Cameroun, Cote d'Ivoire, France, Germany, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and the UK.

The workshop combined round-table discussions, screenings and lectures with in depth screenplay analysis from leading script and production consultants including John Akomfrah, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Isabelle Blanchard and Tony Dennis, together with Babylon's Jürgen Seidler, Gareth Jones, Thierry Lenouvel of Cine Sud Promotion and NFC Director Afolabi Adesanya.

Selected producers and writer-directors met in Europe to compare working notes, share creative aims through the development of their projects and to expand their industrial networks across the 2 continents, in a programme jointly funded by MEDIA MUNDUS and the Nigerian Film Corporation.

Following Berlin, the filmmakers returned home to rewrite their scripts according to the briefs agreed at the concluding session of the workshop, with online advice and mentoring provided in preparation for the production lab in Abuja.


Pictures from the 2011 Berlin Workshop:



Plenary session


Appie Matere


John Akomfrah


Ekwa Msangi-Omari, Mona Ombogo-Scott


Saidi el-Gheithy, Mira Tanna-Händel


Lecture concentration!


Isabelle Blanchard, Abdoulaye Dao, Gervais Kwene


Gareth Jones group session


Jeremias Nussbaum, Axel Mboua


Ekwa Msangi-Omari


Dorothea Wenner, Vincenzo Bugno


Thierry Lenouvel


Mona Ombogo-Scott


Jürgen Seidler, Afolabi Adesanya, Vincenzo Bugno


Victoria Thomas


Tony Dennis


Gareth Jones, John Akomfrah



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