Ludo Smolski
FOCUS BUsiness lab speaker
Ludo is a development consultant and story editor currently working on several feature, hybrid documentary, animation and TV drama projects. He has worked on a range of independent films, from Jon S Baird’s Filth and Bruce Goodison’s Leave to Remain to Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor. He has also worked with pioneering artist group Blast Theory, helping them realise Europe’s first ever live and interactive feature film Bloodyminded (commissioned by 14-18 NOW for the centenary of WWI) which broadcast live to cinemas across Europe and online on 14 October 2018.
Ludo is currently a story advisor for Whatifi, a new iOS phone app that invites the audience to debate and vote on the direction of the film’s plot. These branching narrative film, or “hackable” movies, are made by indie filmmakers for a predominantly Zoomer audience.
Ludo is a co-Tutor of the UK’s National Film and Television’s (NFTS) Postgraduate Diploma in Script Development, the only long form training course on Film and TV Drama script development in the world, and is also a visiting tutor for NFTS Screenwriting MA.
Ludo started his career working in Film and TV production for Company Pictures and also previously worked for The Script Factory for over ten years, devising and delivering industry-respected training courses and workshops for screenwriters, developers and script readers both in the UK and internationally, as well as running their development and script feedback service.
In 2017 he led a six-month script development workshop for the British Council in the Caribbean, in conjunction with Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival and the Jamaican Film Commission, and acted as a script consultant for The Writers Room, a workshop and forum for British and Arab filmmakers at Dubai International Film Festival. The Jamaican workshop has now evolved into a low budget production and development Film Lab for which Ludo is the Project Consultant and started a second cohort last year. Ludo is also a script consultant for La Biennale College Cinema in Venice and has been a guest lecturer for Sources2.
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