For three days in March David Pope was running workshop sessions and facilitating at Kinoteka Studio for writer directors working on their first feature projects. Other contributors included Michael Radford, Agnieszka Holland and Jan Harlan. Run at London Film Academy.

http://kinoteka.org.uk/workshop/kinoteka-studio-2013-workshops-for-writersdirectors/

Kinoteka Studio 2013. Pitching Workshop.

Kinoteka Studio 2013. Delivering Conversation About Stories workshop.

Kinoteka Studio 2013. In Conversation With Michael Radford.

Kinoteka Studio 2013. In Conversation with Michael Radford.

Kinoteka Studio 2013. Facilitating Directing Workshop With Agnieszka Holland.

Kinoteka Studio 2013. Facilitating Directing Workshop with Agnieszka Holland.

In February 2013 David Pope from advance films together with director David Keating designed and delivered the second Story Campus at Jameson International Film Festival. Day one included a keynote conversation with Robert Towne (Chinatown, The Last Detail, Shampoo) and online contributions from David Magee (Life of Pi) and Agnieszka Holland (In Darkness). Day two saw twenty selected  projects presented to industry guests.

Story Campus was delivered in partnership with with Jameson International Film Festival, Screen Training Ireland, Media and The National Film School at IADT.

David Pope in conversation with Robert Towne.

Thank you CineMart for another inspirational edition.
In January David Pope acted as consultant / moderator for The Rotterdam Lab during CineMart. 74 producers from 29 international partner organizations attended the five day programme.

http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/professionals/programme/news-archive-2012-2013/sympatico/

David Pope delighted to be acting again as consultant / moderator for the splendid Rotterdam Lab at CineMart IFFR January 2013.

http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/professionals/cinemine/rotterdam_lab/

In August 2012 David Pope returned to the Media Business School MEGA Plus producer programme in Ronda Spain.

While there he gave feedback on participants project pitches and held one to one creative content meetings.

David had worked with the group in June delivering a principles of storytelling workshop as part of the development module.

During July, in Wroclaw Poland, David Pope delivered a pitching workshop and took one to one meetings with participants of the New Horizons Studio in association with London Film Academy, Polish Film Institute and MEDIA.

David Pope from advance films hosted the Pitch First Feature event at Edinburgh International Film Festival. Selected filmmakers pitched their feature projects to industry funders.

Panellists:

Moderator: David Pope (advance films)
Caroline Cooper Charles (Senior Talent Executive, Creative England)
Chris Aird (Head of Drama, BBC Scotland)
Chris Collins (Senior Development & Production Executive, BFI)

Caroline Cooper Charles and Chris Collins.

David Pope and Chris Aird.

In June David Pope from advance films delivered principles of storytelling as part of the development section on MEGA plus training for producers at Media Business School, Ronda, Spain.

In addition to holding project meetings while at Cannes Film Festival 2012 David Pope delivered two pitching workshops with LFA for the festival.

Participants Speed Dating with Industry Guests.

Interviewing Elisabeth Holm Director of Film Program at Kickstarter.

Opening session participants meet.