In a special edition of the Writers’ Guild event “Dramatic SOFA”, we meet award-winning Kurdish-Norwegian filmmaker Brwa Vahabpour, currently in post-production with his feature directorial debut, Europa. The renowned Romanian screenwriter Răzvan Rădulescu has been a script consultant on Europa, and in this session they will talk about process and development, experiences they have made, and the nature of their collaborative efforts.
Moderated by Gunhild Enger, this conversation will be held in English.
Thursday 17:30 Galleriet
Răzvan Rădulescu studied linguistics, French Literature, and opera directing before starting to work in cinema and became an integral figure in the emergence of the Romanian New Wave.
As a screenwriter, he is known for The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, Tuesday after Christmas, and Child’s Pose.
He was a script consultant on 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days and The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu, and directed First of all, Felicia and Evropa. He follows a basic principle: that cinema on screen is about what we see and hear, while off screen it is about what we think and feel. As a script consultant, Răzvan has collaborated with a number of Norwegian filmmakers including Brwa Vahabpour, Gunhild Enger, Nataša Urban, Thea Hvistendahl, and Emilie Blichfeldt.
Brwa Vahabpour is a filmmaker from Trondheim and a graduate from Filmkunstskolen in Kabelvåg and the Norwegian Film School at Lillehammer. He has directed several award-winning short films including Pomegranate, The Shepherd, and Silence. The latter won Screen Talent Europe’s Pitching Forum at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in 2019, and editor Brynjar Lien Aune won The Norwegian Film Workers Association’s Technical Award for his work on the film at the festival the following year.
Vahabpour has also worked as an episode director on the award-winning series Countrymen, co-produced by Arte France and won the Special Interpretation Prize and the High School Prize for Best Series at Canneseries 2021 where it premiered. He is currently finishing his feature film debut, Europa.
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