Services
Explore our workshops and tailored consultancy pathways designed to support filmmakers, cultural institutions, and emerging talent around the world.
A Long Way Home
An online workshop that helps filmmakers transform a completed short film into a feature project, offering collective and individual guidance from an experienced story tutor to provide the momentum needed for this challenging creative transition.
TGF Consultancy
Individual, tailor-made sessions to develop film projects in collaboration with an experienced tutor. We provide support in storytelling, pitching, production strategy, and every stage of the creative process.
TGF Scholarship
Two annual awards supporting directors and screenwriters from regions with limited access to international film development, providing tailored online mentorship with experienced tutors to help them advance their projects and artistic vision.
What’s The Story?
A five-day intensive workshop that helps filmmakers develop short film projects through collective writing, expert mentorship, and a comprehensive approach to storytelling, from script to industry pitch.
A Long Way Home
What is A Long Way Home?
A Long Way Home is an online workshop designed to kickstart upcoming feature film projects based on (or inspired by) a previously completed short film. Working collectively and individually on projects, under the guidance of a tutor experienced in story development, over a limited period of time can provide the necessary momentum to undertake the challenging task of expanding a short film into a feature.
The programme combines group sessions with international working groups and individual one-to-one sessions with an assigned tutor over a six-month period. A Long Way Home offers tailored support for the development of your feature film and provides valuable guidance through all phases of the project, including applications for funding or labs, pitching, production, filming, and post-production. Each working group consists of 3–4 participants, curated by the TGF artistic team. The working language is English.
To apply for A Long Way Home, the following materials are required:
- The short film on which the feature project is based.
- A letter of motivation.
- A director’s and/or screenwriter’s note.
Applications are free of charge. All accompanying documents must be submitted in English. Short films may be in any language but must include embedded English subtitles if not in English. All text materials developed during the programme must be in English. The final feature film may be in any language.
Who is it for?
A Long Way Home online workshop is exclusively dedicated to directors and/or screenwriters, from any country in the world, that are in need of support and guidance for kickstarting the writing of a feature film project based on or inspired by a previously completed short film.
Who are the tutors?
The tutors are professionals with extensive experience in both the short and feature film worlds. They have many years of expertise in mentoring and supporting emerging talent. Please refer to our Tutors section for more details.
What are the eligibility criteria?
The eligibility criteria for A Long Way Home are as follows:
- The feature film project must be based on or inspired by a completed short film.
- The submitted short film must not exceed 59 minutes in length.
- If the short film is not in English, it must include embedded English subtitles.
- Short films must be submitted as a password-protected Vimeo link.
When is it scheduled? How do I apply? When is the deadline for submissions? How much does it cost?
Check our Open Calls section to see whether a call for applications is currently open and to find more detailed information.
Do you have more questions?
For further information about the open call, structure, or methodology of A Long Way Home, please contact info@talentsgeneratorfactory.com.
TGF Consultancy
What does the consultancy service offer?
TGF Consultancy provides individual, tailor-made sessions to develop your project alongside an experienced tutor. Since 2020, this same development approach has supported over 100 audiovisual projects across 9+ countries through What's The Story? and our consultancy programme. We support storytelling, pitching, production strategy, and every stage of the creative process.
Which projects can apply?
We work with fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, TV series, XR, and video game projects. The TGF artistic direction matches each project with the tutor whose profile best fits its needs.
How are the sessions structured?
Sessions are scheduled one-to-one and shaped around your materials, milestones, and desired outcomes so that guidance is precise, actionable, and responsive.
What about costs and duration?
Consultancy is billed at €150 per hour. Preparation time, such as reading your materials, is part of the billable hours. Work can take place online or in person, as a series of sessions spread over time or as a more intensive block of days. Format, number of hours and schedule are agreed together during a first call, based on your project and its needs. For in-person work, travel and accommodation are reimbursed at cost. A minimum engagement is confirmed before we begin.
How do I apply?
Check our Open Calls section to find more detailed information and apply.
How can I get more information?
Write to info@talentsgeneratorfactory.com to discuss your project and receive a proposal.
TGF Scholarship
What is TGF Scholarship?
Talents Generator Factory Scholarship (TGF Scholarship) is a resource in the form of two annual scholarships, offered by Talents Generator Factory (TGF), aimed at supporting directors and screenwriters working in countries with limited access to international film industry and development programmes.
As part of the TGF initiative, this scholarship provides the opportunity to work individually with experienced tutors in online sessions, tailored to meet the specific needs of the scholarship recipients.
The selected directors or screenwriters will be paired with a tutor whose expertise aligns with their project’s genre or format, including fiction, documentary, experimental, or animation shorts. The TGF Scholarship aims to support filmmakers in progressing through the various stages of the creative process, enabling them to fulfil their artistic vision and objectives.
Who is it for?
TGF Scholarship is open to directors/screenwriters from all over the world who are developing a short film project. Applicants should have a story or idea they are ready to develop into a screenplay.
Please note: priority will be given to the applicants from conflict zones or countries facing challenging social, political and/or economic circumstances.
What is the cost?
There is no submission fee, and participation in the TGF Scholarship is entirely free of charge.
What language will be used?
All submitted documents must be in English, and the TGF Scholarship sessions will primarily be conducted in English. However, in specific cases, sessions may be held in a language other than English.
When and how is it scheduled? When and how can I apply? What is the cost?
Check our Open Calls section to see whether a call for applications is currently open and to find more detailed information.
Do you have more questions?
For further information, please contact us at wts@talentsgeneratorfactory.com.
What’s The Story?
What is What’s The Story?
What’s The Story? is an intensive five-day short film development writing workshop. The main purpose of the workshop is to boost the creative process of story development for short films in a limited amount of time and in a collective way.
How does it work?
The workshop is led by one or two experienced tutors and requires active participation and an open, collaborative mindset from everyone involved. Activities take place during in-person sessions and between meetings, supported by daily tasks and assignments.
The workshops is dedicated to a limited number of selected authors – chosen through a competition – who will work together to outline the respective storylines of an upcoming short film in just five days. The methodology used during the workshops is tailored to the participants’ needs under the guidance of the tutors, both in individual and group sessions. For this reason, active participation and an open mindset for collaboration are required from all participants. The work will take place both in the classroom during face-to-face sessions and between meetings, with specific tasks and assignments to be completed for the next day.
Who is it for?
What’s The Story? is open to filmmakers who work together to kickstart their storylines for an upcoming short film. The workshops are financed, organised, and held in partnership with public institutions (film commissions, film centres, development offices), festivals, cultural associations, and private organisations interested in developing new screenwriters and directors within a specific territory defined with the TGF artistic team.
The initiative aims to create a dynamic network of filmmakers who can champion the artistic and productive qualities of the territory in which they work.
Who are the tutors?
The tutors are professionals with extensive experience in both the short and feature film worlds. They have many years of expertise in mentoring and supporting emerging talent. Please refer to our Tutors section for more details, and check our Open Calls to see whether a call for applications is currently open and to find more detailed information about the tutors for a specific session.
When is it scheduled? Where is it located? What language will be used? How do I apply? How much does it cost?
Check our Open Calls section to see whether a call for applications is currently open and to find more detailed information.
Are you interested in organising a What's The Story? workshop in your country?
Please get in touch with us at wts@talentsgeneratorfactory.com.
