The European City of Screenwriters proposes to share the daily life of confirmed authors. An immersion designed to delacalize this profession and to facilitate the insertion of new talents.
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Anissa Omri, 30 years old, won the Grail: writing a series for Netflix. A job, a true, which allows him to pay his rent. An incredible opportunity for the one who, just a year ago, made his debut in an environment that made her dream, but where she knew no one. After a Master in Labor Law, it was employed in the Human Resources sector, before integrating, a few years later, the Kourtrajmine film school, with a three-month training on the scenario. “When I came out, in January 2021, I had a good basis but no idea how I was able to live with my work,” explains Anissa Omri, who also made stand-up in Paris.
His film school suggests sending him a candidate file to the European City of Screenwriters, association founded in 2018 to promote the profession and participate in his opening to young talents, who inaugurated in 2021 his companion center. . Anissa tries his luck and integrates the first promotion last June. The ten admitted, aged 21 to 38, were chosen from about sixty candidates. They all have previously passed through formations in audiovisual and cinematographic writing. For seven months, they benefited from a scholarship (between 300 and 500 euros net per month), of labor market courses applied to screenwriters (who to pithe his ideas? What does copyrights ?) And a particular alliance with one or a senior screenwriter. The latter, paid, opened their ongoing projects to their future confreres and sisters. A speed accelerated in real life.
“For a learner, a confirmed professional makes it possible to demystify the act of creation, explains Pauline Rocafull, co-chair of the Cité des Scénarists alongside Thomas Bidegain, known for his collaborations with the director Jacques Audiard. Attend his Daily, including in more difficult times as an umpteenth request for rewriting or refusing a version, allows you to get out of popular ideas. “
” Take confidence “
Among the students of the first promo of written apprentices, Erwan Nosal, 24 years old, shared a few slices of life with Blandine Jet, film screenwriter, and Antoine Rodelet, at the head of Studio Hari, specialized in the animation. His two good fairy have reassured a lot of the young man, spent on the benches of Kourtrajmé after a few months of movie college. He who wrote his first scenario at the age of 13 has been nourished with these exchanges. “I learned a lot while working with people I admired,” he analyzes. When I realized that they too had sometimes had to cling and persevere, it helped me take confidence. “
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