Production Collective The Creatives Tap 'Rust and Bone,' 'Losing Alice' Writers For Workshops

The Creatives, an alliance of independent production companies from across Europe and beyond, has picked 16 screenwriters to participate in a session of brainstorming workshops aimed at developing ideas and pitches for new films and high-end drama TV series.  The group, announced Monday, includes veteran writers Thomas Bidegain, co-writer of The Bélier Family, the 2014 French feature adapted into english as 2021 Best Picture Oscar winner CODA, as well as several collaborations with French director Jacques Audiard, including A Prophet (2009), Rust and Bone (2012) and The Sisters Brothers (2018); Israeli writer Sigal Avin, creator of AppleTV+ Losing Alice, and Denmark’s Julie Budtz Sørensen, a writer on Netflix series Rain and Chosen. The 16 writers, joined by 10 producers from The Creatives, will take part in three, 5-day workshops across Europe this year. The first will kick off in France’s Île-de-France region this week. The concept of the workshops will see the writers and producers hear from experts in different, non-entertainment fields, including artificial intelligence, environmental studies, genetics and philosophy, in a bid to help guide them in creating new stories.  Any ideas or concepts generated during the first workshop will be taken and explored in a pre-development workshop led by leading residency program Le Groupe Ouest in March 2023, and then
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