m2 Script Development Workshop 2022
Targeting first and second-time writer/directors and creative teams (writer and director, co-writers, director and producer) who are at early stages of script development, m2 Script Development Workshop 2022 workshop will be held in two sessions on September 8-12 and November 18-20. Selected project teams will conduct an intense one-on-one and group work with international screenwriting mentors. For the second session in November, the participating teams will work one-on-one with their production mentors to develop a production strategy specific to their projects, focusing on financing and marketing.


















2022 Selected Projects









m2 Production Talks 2022
Online Events



m2 Script Talks 2022
Online Events




Physical Events
@Kadikoy Sinematek / Sinema Evi


SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER 2022
Mentors
RUTH ATKINSON
NEAL DHAND


Neal has taught screenwriting, directing, producing, and film analysis at universities in Pennsylvania, New York, and the Czech Republic.
ALI VATANSEVER
SELIN VATANSEVER


IMRE TEZEL
MÜGE ÖZEN


Guest Mentor
ZEYNEP ATAKAN

In 1999, Atakan transitioned to the film industry and started producing international film projects. In 2007, she started Zeynofilm, a company dedicated to producing film projects.
In 2010, Atakan was awarded the European Film Academy’s Best European Co-Producer award. The same year, she launched the Yapımlab Workshops, with which she aims to share her experience and knowledge as a producer with young filmmakers.
Zeynep Atakan is still the Vice President of EWA, the European Women’s Audiovisual Network, which works towards equal opportunities for women working in the audiovisual industries in Europe and around the world.
In 2014, Atakan was awarded the Uçan Süpürge Bilge Olgaç Achievement Award, and her production Winter Sleep won the Palme d’Or at the 67th Cannes Film Festival, the festival’s most prestigious award.
Also in 2014, Zeynep Atakan started the Antalya Film Forum, a co-production and project development market organized as part of the International Antalya Film Festival and was its director until 2018. Atakan also organizes the Turkey section of the Young Audience Award, a project by the European Film Academy.
She is the art director of the Sabancı Foundation Short Film Platform.
Atakan is a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science (AMPAS), European Film Academy and the Asia Pacific Screen Academy.