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Valeria Richter
Script editor
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About me
- I have studied Film- & Media-science at the Copenhagen University and since my first fulltime job in the film industry in 1997 I have worked my way back from PR, marketing, distribution, festivals and production towards what I find is at the core of everything: Development, and especially the development of stories and scripts. Knowing the steps that a project will need to take once it leaves my hands has given me an insight into the so-called vertical approach to development, where the isolated look on the script - as crucial as it is - is combined with a 360 degree look at the whole project, the talents and the world around them.
I currently work as a freelance script editor and a development producer, consulting on a broad range of projects, and developing projects I would like to see made. I am attached to the European script development workshop, Script&Pitch Workshops, where I coach the story editor trainees, edit their publications and develop the content side. Connected to this I work as Project Development Manager at the Italian film fund, TorinoFilmLab, which supports projects by 1st and 2nd time directors. I have just executive produced a Danish feature film and previously produced 3 short films and a documentary, while attending the alternative film course Super16. As part of my interest in heightening the focus on script writing I have organised several workshops and events, lastly - in collaboration with the Danish and Baltic MEDIA-desks - the POWR-workshop at the Baltic event, giving writers a chance to present themselves and their projects to producers.
What really tickles my interest right now, apart from one fascinating TV-series after the other, is transmedia, or cross-media, projects that develop their content on several platforms simultaneously. I have therefore partnered up with Seize the Media, who are planning a workshop on this next year.
Why do I love development? Firstly it is loaded with potential and possibility, this feeds my curiosity and I enjoy the early process of finding and shaping the story and characters, while exploring the material and following the talents down the path they wish and/or need to go. There are no two similar ways to go, each story and project will create its own path - and while development as such never really ends, but moves in perpetual circles - these early steps are a constant challenge and a place I like to develop myself in as well. To watch as many different things as possible, to read scripts, books, books about scripts and to discuss and meditate on not only what we work with, but life and the world in general, that's all part of making things and people happen, which is what I like to do: make it happen. Throw that pebble in the water and create rings, which become waves and shape new pebbles to throw.
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