MIDPOINT Smash Cut – The best place to develop your short-form series!
MIDPOINT Smash Cut
The best place to develop your short-form series!
MIDPOINT Smash Cut is a creative incubator for fresh new voices developing short-form or web series (up to 20 mins. per episode), which is organized by the MIDPOINT Institute in partnership and alongside the Serial Killer festival.
The program is designed to help participants to define a series concept, outline pilot script and season, and also train and explain the specifics of short-form series and its difference to long-form series in storytelling. Insights into financing and distribution strategies connected to this form of serialized production are also included in the training. Moreover, participating creators will pitch their projects during the Serial Killer TV Days in a special showcase.
Selected participants will work under the guidance of experienced industry experts, led by the program Head of Studies Sullivan Le Postec, a successful series creator (Woke, Xaoc). The program will also welcome other industry experts in the role of guest tutors, who will consult each participating project within individual consultations.
Smash Cut consists of one online pre-training workshop (mid-September 2024), one residential workshop within the Serial Killer festival (September 23 – 24, 2024) and online follow-up consultations, which will be organized in November 2024.
The short-form series has established themselves as the great modern incubator of fresh, new voices of a generation of creators with something different to say. Use the opportunity and become part of the community!
More information can be found on the MIDPOINT Institute website here.
Sullivan Le Postec has had a lifelong passion for TV series. He started out as a TV critic and journalist before becoming a TV writer himself, penning episodes for French series Dernier Recours and Falco. In 2014, after a year in Berlin, he graduated from Serial Eyes, Europe’s premier postgraduate training programme for television writers and producers, taught in English.
In 2017, he created his first series, Les Engagés (known as Woke internationally). Two critically acclaimed seasons (10x10mn each) aired on the French public broadcaster’s digital series platform. The series concluded in 2021 with a new season subtitled Xaoc, and a reinvented format of 3x45min. Xaoc was also Sullivan’s directing debut. He’s currently developing several new original series projects.
Four promising short-form series projects
Two Ukrainian sisters try to stay sane while cleaning at Polish clients. When the daughter of one of them arrives, it gets even less feasible.
Lukasz is over fifty. Immersed in his unrealistic life dreams, he doesn’t notice that his music shop is on the verge of bankruptcy and that his teenage son is seriously considering gender transition.
After Dora’s father Igor disappears, she returns to her childhood village to keep the family business going; pretending to be a lie-detector specialist like Igor. She is offering truth confirmation for low-key Slavic crimes and misdemeanours while searching for what truly happened with her unconventional father.
A couple struggling to conceive invites danger and prejudice into their
lives when they secretly adopt an alien child.
