Together with international talents invited to Helsinki Script we learn about and discuss different sorts of series writing processes.
How do lone creators structure their work when writing shorter series or long-running ones?
What are the best domestic and international writers room practices and how are co-writers elected?
THE 2019 WORKSHOPS ARE ARRANGED IN CO-OPERATION WITH FINNISH FILM AND MEDIA SCHOOLS.
The Virtual Writer Room’s fall Masterclass will be arranged as part of the student workshop.
Camilla Hammerich is an experienced series producer and the author of the book THE BORGEN EXPERIENCE – creating TV Drama the Danish Way. She has worked tightly with Adam Price in Borgen and in his new series Ride Upon the Storm. She talks about building on experience when creating the best possible team for ambitious series.
Series creator Jeppe Gjervig Gram was headhunted by DR Drama while still in film school. In 2019 the third season of his acclaimed series Follow the Money will premier. What was his way from co-writing stories that others created, to create his own ones? The workshop is arranged in partnership with Aalto University.
The afternoon discussions are moderated by culture editors Silja Sahlgren and Johanna Grönqvist.
Kirsi Porkka is an acknowledged screenwriter and playwright and one of the co-creators, together with Rike Jokela and Jari Olavi Rantala, of Deadwind (Karppi), a Finnish crime series that premiered in Finland in March 2018 and in August 2018 on Netflix. In a workshop, organized in the Theatre Academy of Finland with students in acting, she will open up the creative writing processes behind the conception of Deadwind and focus especially on questions related to plot, characters and world building. The discussion will be moderated by Satu Kyösola, university lecturer in film history and aesthetics in ELO Film School Finland (Aalto University) and founding board member of Fiction Finland. The workshop is arranged in partnership with the Theatre Academy in Helsinki.