Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever
Native American proverb
The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation to come
Steve Jobs
#SSB2018 Aftermovie
THE THEME
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The 2018 edition of the Summer Scriptwriting Base is dedicated to storytelling in the Digital Age. Humans are story-driven creatures. We need stories to convey meaning, values and hopes. Human knowledge is based on stories and the human brain is a sort of cognitive machine necessary to understand, remember and tell stories. Stories mirror human thought, as humans think in narrative structures and most often remember facts in story form. Neurologists confirm that when a human hears straight data, only the language parts of our brains work to decode the meaning of this data. But when we hear a story, all the parts of the brain that we would use if we were actually experiencing that story light up and become active.
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MENTORS
THE LOCATION
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SSB 2018 edition will take place in the village of Bozhentsi in central northern Bulgaria. According to the legend, the young noble Bozhana settled here in the XVI century and later the village was named after her. The noble’s sons engaged in trade and the village gradually grew to become an important trade junction during the National Revival towards the middle of the XVIII century.
Bozhentsi is noted for its well-preserved Bulgarian traditional architecture and history. It was proclaimed an architectural and historical reserve in 1964. Due to this, there is a ban on the construction of any buildings that do not fit with the village’s style. Today, the permanent population of Bozhentsi is only 41 people. As the settlers during the Ottoman period were mostly wealthy people, many of the houses have two floors, the first being used as a cattle-shed and the second being inhabited by the owners. Characteristic features of the Bozhentsi architecture are the verandas, the stone-plate roofs, the corner fireplaces and the ceiling woodcarvings. The pavement of the streets in the village is only cobblestone. The participants will be housed in traditional XVIII and XIX century houses full of authentic charm and coziness. The SSB will transform Bozhentsi into “Shangri-La”, a magical world where participants’ dreams and childhood fantasies will merge with the settings and the history of the village. |
TESTIMONIALS
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SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!
Summer Scriptwriting Base "Digital Village" is now over. We congratulate all our participants: Antoniya Atanasova (BG), Boris Cremene (MD), Marina Zheleva (BG), Zlatina Todorova Ivanovs (UK, BG), Anguelina Ranguelova (BG), Noel Leung Wai Chun (HK), Vesy Deyanova (AUS, BG), Irina Breitenstein (ROM, FR), Todor Velev (BG), Albena Puneva (BG), Marie Simons (GER), Veni Petrova (BG), Jakub Crcha (SVK, USA), Ana Petrova (BG, FR), Martin Luchev (BG), Vasil Vasilev (BG), Miglena Dimova (BG, DK), Dio Todorov (USA), Maria Nadia Nielsen (DK), Caroline Greenman (UK), Johan Peeters (BEL)
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