Filmkraft Talent is kicking off the 2025 versions of FilmRookies & Filmverksted with a script workshop. Here you can refine your ideas under expert guidance, so that you are ready to submit your script contribution to FilmRookies and Filmverksted 2025.
Film Workshop and FilmRookies are Talent Projects with long traditions at Filmkraft, and are two important pillars in our talent development. Now we are starting up the 2025 versions with a script workshop at KINOKINO. Before you participate, you should have an idea of what your story will be about, but you do not need a finished script draft. If you have a logline or synopsis, that's great. The workshop will take place over a weekend. If you are visiting from, for example, Haugesund, you can apply for travel support and accommodation.
FilmRookies and Filmverksted are similar and a little different. In short, FilmRookies is 4 characters, 4 directors, 4 film crews and finally 4 finished scenes. Rookies is a year-long collaboration with the Children and Youth Theatre at Rogaland Teater. Selection of scripts is done by BUT, producer and talent advisor.
Filmverksted is a fully completed short film from start to finish. One finished script, 5-10 minutes, 1-2 days of filming and a finished film on the CV of a lucky talent. Selection of scripts takes place via a pitch that takes place in November in front of a professional jury from the film industry, producer and talent advisor.
What both projects have in common is that local production companies are implementing the project, there are mentors in all functions, and both of the two scripts that are selected receive guidance towards a production-ready script.
Both projects will premiere during Talenttime in December.
Theme; Idea & idea development, film universe, characters and why do YOU want to tell this story?
In your application for the workshop, you submit your idea/synopsis/treatment so that the mentors can prepare for feedback on the first day.
Friday, September 27th EXPIRES!
Saturday, September 28th 10-16
- Short intro by Terje Torkildsen & Geir Petter Røssland. Topic: Writing for film, short about Filmrookies & Filmverksted.
- Brief presentation of the participants.
- What did you do with your homework? Where are you now?
- We watch Neste Dør , a Filmverksted film from 2020 by Sander Lid Fiskå. We talk about the whole process and connect it to the workshop theme. Neste Dør will be the example we connect to theory.
- Group work. Pitch and feedback
- Individual work with guidance
- Summary day 1 and homework
Sunday, September 29th 10-16
- Review homework.
- Joint review of each project; idea, (fiction, self-experienced), characters, the film universe, what do you want to tell and why should you tell this story?
- Individual work with guidance
- Pitch your film project. It doesn't matter if you still only have a well-described idea, a synopsis, treatment or draft script.
- Summary and conclusion
The schedule is tentative and will likely be changed along the way as we become more familiar with the projects.
You will be challenged throughout the workshop to find the best version of your story. And one thing is for sure, you won't go home with a production-ready script 🙂
Lunch at 1:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday. Throughout the day there will be light refreshments with fruit and snacks to keep your blood sugar up :)
For those who want to submit contributions to Filmverksted, there will be a separate Pitching workshop on November 12th with the actual pitch the following day, November 13th.
Apply for a place at script camp
- Application deadline September 13th to Talent Advisor Geir Petter Røssland
- Your CV
- Your idea, logline, synopsis
- Why do you want to join a screenwriting workshop?
The mentor for the script workshop is:
Terje Torkildsen (b. 1971) has more than thirty years of experience as a writer and educator. He is a qualified Norwegian language teacher but has in recent decades made his living as an actor, comedian and author. He has worked in film since the nineties and is probably best known as the principled taxi driver in the cult film Mongoland. In 2008 he debuted as a novelist and has published fifteen books. He writes mostly for children and young people and has won the Uprisen youth literature award twice. His writing is characterized by action and humor, and he often uses cinematic devices in his stories. The best-known books are Marki Marko, the Dystopia series, Arrfjes and the short story collection Stavanger Stories 1-3. Torkildsen also writes scripts for film and stage.
Images from FilmRookie's film set 2024. Photo Aleksandar Nenad Zecevic.
