Script development lab Midpoint hands out 2017 prizes.
The year-long Midpoint TV script development programme concluded at Sarajevo Film Festival today (Aug 16) with the presentation of its awards.
The Midnight Shift, a series from Cyprus by writers Harry Ayiotis and Frixos Masouras, and writer-director-producer Andreas Kyriacou, won the event’s top prize, the HBO Europe award worth $4000.
The series follows a small-time criminal who takes on a midnight shift as a taxi driver. After starting the job, he soon realises that he is cursed to be a modern version of the ancient Greek mythical figure of the boatman; transporting the dead from this world to the next by helping them with their unfinished business.
Subsequently, he connects with a young journalist and the pair partner to uncover a financial political scandal, gathering information from both the dead and the living.
A total of seven projects participated in the Midpoint programme, which kicked off in November 2016 with a residential...
The year-long Midpoint TV script development programme concluded at Sarajevo Film Festival today (Aug 16) with the presentation of its awards.
The Midnight Shift, a series from Cyprus by writers Harry Ayiotis and Frixos Masouras, and writer-director-producer Andreas Kyriacou, won the event’s top prize, the HBO Europe award worth $4000.
The series follows a small-time criminal who takes on a midnight shift as a taxi driver. After starting the job, he soon realises that he is cursed to be a modern version of the ancient Greek mythical figure of the boatman; transporting the dead from this world to the next by helping them with their unfinished business.
Subsequently, he connects with a young journalist and the pair partner to uncover a financial political scandal, gathering information from both the dead and the living.
A total of seven projects participated in the Midpoint programme, which kicked off in November 2016 with a residential...
- 8/16/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
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