Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine Hessen is a capacity building international training program, which aims at supporting and accompanying the writing, development and post-production of 10 feature films closely connected to the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region in France and Hessen Region in Germany.

The lab is addressed to both emerging and more experienced filmmakers, French, German and international projects.

> Accompanying projects closely connected to the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region in France and Hessen Region in Germany, and supporting their feasibility, and international potential in a tailor-made way.

> Supporting the whole cinema ecosystem in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Hessen Regions in an integrated manner and accompanying 6 projects at scriptwriting stage (the Development Lab) and 4 projects in editing phase (the First Cut Lab).

1st module

Development Lab

During the 7 months of the Lab, the six selected projects focus on script & project development.

Module & structure

The Development Lab selects 6 projects, which will have the chance to attend two residential workshops, each lasting four full working days, and 1 industry event.

Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine Hessen is open to teams of scriptwriter/director and producer. Both of them will attend the workshops.

An individual follow-up

During the last months of the program, projects are followed individually.

According to their needs, a participation to a specific co-production forum or film industry event will be suggested and facilitated, either in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine or Hessen Regions, in France or internationally. 

Module & structure

The First Cut Lab is open to the filmmaker, producer and editor of the project and it takes place online.

The exact dates of the workshop are chosen in agreement with the selected teams to best answer the needs of their films. The workshop takes place during the period from April 29th to October 31st 2024.

Each film is accompanied by First Cut Lab for a period of roughly 3 weeks, even though the core of the Lab takes place over two consecutive days.

Tools provided for future

After the workshop, the film team receives a memo of the discussions and all suggestions, to serve as a road map in the further editing.

Tailor-made chosen advisors 

The core is an in-depth discussion where the filmmakers get to test their questions and dilemmas with carefully chosen film industry experts.

An editor consultant helps the teams throughout the whole process with preparatory and follow-up meetings.

For more details

First Cut Lab is an international initiative, regularly joining Full Circle Lab for unique collaborations.

To know more about this module, discover all the information here.

How to apply

Full Circle Lab Nouvelle Aquitaine Hessen is for feature films closely connected to the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Hessen area. The program is open to teams of writer/director and producer that fit the following criteria:

For Nouvelle-Aquitaine:

• Authors/directors from Nouvelle-Aquitaine, with a project that benefited from national/regional selective grants or who reached plenary commission for a regional funding request;
• Producers from Nouvelle-Aquitaine, with a project that benefited from an international, national or regional selective grant;
• Projects supported by the Nouvelle Aquitaine Region or by the appointed departments;
• Projects supported in the context of festivals (the clos-FIFIB, the Biarritz Bal Lab, the Poitiers Film Festival residencies) and partner residencies (La Prévôté, Chalet Mauriac, La Maison Bleue, Atelier Claude Miller).
• Only projects that benefited from support (grants or programs) in 2022, 2023 and 2024 are eligible.

For Hessen:

• Authors/directors from Hessen, with a project that benefited from national/regional selective grants or who reached plenary commission for a regional funding request;
• Producers from Hessen, with a project that benefited from an international, national or regional selective grant;
• Only projects that benefited from support (grants or programs) in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are eligible.

Applicants for both the Development Lab and First Cut Lab should submit their entire application package by the April 8^th, 2024.

For any information request, please contact:  nouvelle-aquitaine@fullcirclelab.org

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Matthieu Darras

CEO of Tatino Films

Matthieu Darras designs and leads several programs of film/talent development and consultancy that are active worldwide: the First Cut Lab, the Pop Up Film Residency, and the Full Circle Lab. Previously, he founded and directed the European Network of Young Cinema NISI MASA, wrote for the film magazine Positif, and was the artistic director of the TorinoFilmLab.

He also worked for major film festivals in Europe: as a programmer for the Cannes Critics’ Week, as a consultant for the Venice Film Festival, and as a delegate for the San Sebastian Film Festival.
He also directed the Bratislava Film Festival.

Myriam Sassine

Head of the program and Producer Consultant 

Myriam Sassine joined Abbout Productions producing several features and documentaries such as Costa Brava, Lebanon by Mounia Akl (Venice Film Festival Official Selection / TIFF 2021), 1982 by Oualid Mouaness (TIFF 2019) and Panoptic by Rana Eid (Locarno 2017).

From 2016 to 2020, she was the COO of Schortcut Films dedicated to co-producing international films. In 2016, she cofounded Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival, the first and only genre film festival in the Middle East.

Since 2021, she’s the project manager of Aflamuna Connection, Aflamuna’s coproduction platform. Myriam is an alumni of EAVE Producer’s Workshop (2019) and Film Independent Producing Lab (2019).

Philippe Barrière

Script Consultant

Born in 1978, Philippe Barrière has a Masters in philosophy and formal logic at La Sorbonne University.
Script consulting is way for him to combine his interest for analysis and his passion for cinema.

Over the past years, Philippe Barrière has had several relevant experiences in the field of script consulting such as head of the development for Mille et une Productions or, since 2010, as an independent script consultant.

He is notably the co-author with Rubaiyat Hossain of Made in Bangladesh (Toronto 2019). He teaches scriptwriting in different film schools in Paris, and works on several script development workshops, such as La Scénaristerie, Cannes Talent Unlimited and Le Groupe Ouest.

Britta Krause

Script Consultant

After having studied at NYU’s Film & TV programme and her graduation from the London Film School with a distinction in script-writing, Britta worked internationally as a writer/director/editor on short and TV-films and made a career directing commercials. Since 2012 she has been working as a scriptwriting tutor for institutions like the Doha Film Institute, European Short Pitch, Torino Film Lab, Nipkow Programm, Attagirl (BFI), Semaine de la Critique’s Next Step workshop and Full Circle Lab. She is currently a mentor for the Netflix Accelerator workshop and teaches at Filmakademie Ludwigsburg and ifs Cologne besides working as a freelance script consultant with writer-directors from all over the world.

Alca, the cultural agency for publishing and cinema in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Region, supports creation and production of fiction, animation and documentary films through fundings, artists-in-residence program, partnerships with Labs and international market and a regional film commission.

It also stands by film professionals from the region for national and international film festivals, coproduction events and to support distribution and promotion.