online
May 09 | 2025
SRN Script Reading Online Session
Gabriele C. Sindler talking and discussing about
Professional Script Reading
based on the Experience of Practitioners
SRN | Screenwriting Research Network
ZOOM | Friday | May 9 | 2025 | 5 p.m.
OLOMOUC
September 11-14 | 2024
Univerzita Palackého | Palacký University
Filozofická fakulta | Faculty of Arts
Katedra divadelních a filmových studií | Department of Theatre and Film Studies
Olomouc | Czech Republic
Screenwriting Research Network (SRN)
Conference 2024
dfk*films @ SRN
dfk*films | dfk*script*service will attend the 16th World Conference of the Screenwriting Research Network with three presentations:
Wednesday | September 11, 2024 | 17:00 Keynote:
PROCLAMATION TO BREAK THE RULES!
Insights into the skills and the practical art of story & script development.
Friday | September 13, 2024 | 13:30 Lecture with Tsitsi Dangarembga
Intercontinental & Intercultural Collaboration | A Successful Model in Practice & Theory.
Saturday | September 14, 2024 | 9:45 Masterclass
HARARE | ZIMBABWE
August 25 2024 | 10 am – 12 pm
Batanai Mall | B2C Nexus
EUPHORIA & MISERY of
DEVELOPING STORIES|SCRIPTS|FILMS
with RELEVANT CONTENT
Gabriele C. Sindler and Donat F. Keusch provide insights into the skills and practical art of story and script development. The success of a film and it’s impact on an audience is intrinsically bound to the quality of its script. Based on the concrete needs in film production, distribution, both domestic and worldwide, they specialized in the evaluation and improvement of scripts. Based on an expertise of more than 3000 script evaluations they state: Screenwriters waste 30 – 50 % of the potential of their stories. Let’s discuss how this can be avoided.
HARARE
August 12 to 31, 2024
Kentucky Ecumenical Centre
Harare | Zimbabwe
Harare based ICAPA Trust presents
EQUAL VOICES
SCRIPT AND FILM ANALYSIS ||| STORY AND SCRIPT DEVELOPMENT
Workshop conducted by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Gabriele C. Sindler & Donat F. Keusch
The purpose of the Equal Voices Script and Film Analysis ||| Story and Script Development Workshop is to elevate the ability of filmmakers on the African continent and from elsewhere to write a good film script.
In this workshop the professional analysis of films and screenplays is presented and trained. The participants learn to read scripts on paper and on the big screen. The participants learn about the various problems writers and consultants are facing when developing a screenplay.
The workshop targets scriptwriters, producers, directors, editors (cutters), story editors, consultants for writers, directors, buyers/investors/distributors, actors, agents in film business and others. In line with the workshop’s aim of equalising voices, African women in particular, and women in general, are encouraged to apply.
>>>Further information
HAMBURG
21.03.2024 | 17:00
Hadley’s | Beim Schlump 84a | Hamburg | Germany
Capturing Film Business with Botho & Ubuntu
An Event with Tsitsi Dangarembga and Gabriele Sindler
Tsitsi Dangarembga and Gabriele Sindler present their African-European collaboration in the fields of story & script development and creation of films. The aim of their cooperation is to bring relevant and artistically well-presented content to broad film audiences all over the world.
Further inforamtioen @ Website HIAS (Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study).
RSVP: event@hias-hamburg.de
BERLIN
EFM | AfroBerlin
17.02.2024 | 12:00
EFM Conference Lounge
Berlin | Germany
Tsitsi Dangarembga and Gabriele C. Sindler speak about
Pan-African Story | Script | Film Development for a Global Audience
Aspects of intercontinental and intercultural training for experienced filmmakers.
WEIMAR
Bauhaus-Universität
30.01.2024 | 11:00-16:00
Germany
Lecture & DisCussion
Gabriele C. Sindler as guest in the seminar “Writer’s Room – into the Web Series Realm”, led by Polina Horošina .
LAGOS
Nigeria
28. October 2023 – 12. November 2023
Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA Trust) presents
INTENSIVE Story & script WRITING workshop
Tsitsi Dangarembga | Gabriele C. Sindler | Donat F. Keusch
16 PARTICIPANTS | 9 COUNTRIES | 8 PROJECTS
In the run-up to the Africa International Film Festival (AFRIFF) the Institute of Creative Arts for Progress in Africa (ICAPA) Trust is hosting a two-week intensive screenwriting workshop. It is aimed at female African screenwriters who have a project in the final stage of development. The workshop will be led by Tsitsi Dangarembga (ICAPA), Donat Keusch and Gabriele Sindler (DFK FILMS | dfk*script*service).
–> Detailed Program Workshop Lagos, Nigeria 2023
VIENNA
Friday, 23rd September 2022 | 11:40
Department for Theatre, Film and Media Studies Vienna
UZA II-Rotunde | Althanstraße 14 | 1090 Wien | Austria
HS 415 Panel 4
Meet Gabriele Sindler at the Screenwriting Research Network International Conference (SRN) giving a lecture on:
Analyzing Screenplays presented on the international market:
Development, Practice and Benefits of “The SSO- or *40-Steps-Method”
From practical use to theory and back again
Gabriele C. Sindler | gcs@dfkfilms.com | +49 177 9744133
>>> Download THE LECTURE: password protected
>>> General information on the lecture…
>>> 14th Screenwriting Reseach Network International Conference 2022 | 22nd – 24th September
MOSCOW
Friday, 1st July 2022 | 11:00
Moscow Kurdish Film Festival
Penta Hotel | Novy Arbat 15
Moscow 119019 | Russia
Master Class @ Moscow Kurdish Film Festival
EUPHORIA & MISERY of DEVELOPING STORIES, SCRIPTS and FILMS with RELEVANT CONTENT
Lecture & discussion
Donat F. Keusch | Gabriele C. Sindler
dfk*films & script*service | www.dfkfilms.com
In 1982 Yılmaz Güney’s film YOL got the most important festival award of the world: The Golden Palm in Cannes. But the CEO of the production company, Donat F. Keusch, still didn’t know what makes a film successful. After having produced 20 films and having distributed more than 300 films which won all sort of prizes and were praised by film critics, he asked himself: How is it possible that 80% of our films attract only a small audience? Why are most of our “great films” flops? So, he looked for the basics and started to concentrate on the essence of film: STORY and SCRIPT.
Today his multilingual team of dfk*script*service, run by Gabriele Sindler, analyzes 120 scripts per year from all over the world. They are convinced that filmmaking is a process of collective creation and that every successful film is based on a good and professional script. A film’s impact on the audience is intrinsically bound to the quality of its script. Based on a bad script you will shoot a bad film with no chance to become successful – with a good script your chance rises to 50% at least. The definitions of a good story and a good script and much more will be part of our lecture.
Donat Keusch and Gabriele Sindler will present a brief impression how they evaluate, analyze stories and scripts. We kindly invite you to ask all sorts of professional questions.
Lecture Moscow | July 2022 | ENGLISH & KURDISH | SORANI
Lecture Moscow | July 2022 | ENGLISH & PERSIAN
Lecture Moscow | July 2022 | ENGLISH & TURKISH
CAIRO
New Falaki Theater | AUC, next to Tahrir Square
Egypt
INTENSIVE SCRIPT AND FILM ANALYSIS WORKSHOP
by Gabriele C. Sindler & Donat F. Keusch
dfk*films & script*service