Internationalscript development training programme North By Northwest has selected 70 youngwriters from across Europe to participate at this year's event.

Themain programmes - Classics and Wizard of Oz (formerly titled Kids Stories) -consist of three script development and training workshops held over a 5month-period. Two thirds of the participants are writers attending with theirown projects and a third are trainee script editors.


The writers and projects invitedto join this year's Classics programme are:
Cecilie Olrik & Morten Lorentzen: The Letter (Denmark)
Hylke Gryseels: Cupcake (Belgium)
Gabriel Bornstein: Cool Water (Germany)
Audrey O'Reilly: Unaccompanied Minor (Ireland)
Nynke de Jong & Laura Coroianu: CrossingBorders (Holland)
Eglantine Pottiez de Cesari: Temps Vole Pas (France)
Andre Georgi: Tribunal (Germany)
Martin Nygaard: The Most Important Things In Life (Norway)
VibekeMuasya: Mzungu (Denmark)
Peter Östlund:The Driving School (Sweden)
Soni Jorgensen: Brother Love(Sweden)
Pauline Cadell: All about Googolplex (Ireland)
Richard Blass: GlasgowTailors Incorporated (UK/Scotland)
Petr Bok Sudeten (Czech Republic)
Kristinn Thordarson Life's Too Good(Iceland)
Henriette Piper The Mercy (Germany)

The trainee scripteditors invited to join this year's Classics programme are:
Peter Reichhardt(Denmark), Eva Juel Hammerich (Denmark), Rebecka Hamberger (Sweden), KarenMarie Edmonds (Ireland), Gunnar Ingi Gunnsteinsson (Iceland), Georges Pauly(Germany), Birgit Theresia Wittemann (Germany) & Vesa Henry JohannesKantola (Finland).

The writers and projects invitedto join this year's Wizard of Oz programme are:
Mark Wale Tiger(Ireland),
Arbo Tammiksaar Super! (Estonia)
Vincent Bal The Zig Zag Kid (Belgium)
Bob Swain: The Blue Man (UK)
Peter McKenna Agent Blacksod (Ireland)
Camilla Hübbe: Flamenco (Denmark)
Don MacNab-Stark The Sandman (UK)
Boris Paval Conen Anne in Dreamland (Holland)
Mathias Claeys & Tom Goris The Longest Way
Maria O'Loughlin Brother of Pearl (Ireland)
Aliefka Bijlsma Home (Holland)
Jesper W. Rasmussen Soul (Denmark)
KristlaugMaria Sigurdardottir & Kristjan Kristjansson (Iceland)
Trond Arntzen Jesus-Girl (Norway)
Jani Manninen: New Delhi Surfing (Finland)
Monika Sandmann Klara's Father (Germany)

The trainee script editorsinvited to join this year's Wizard of Oz programme are:
Maite Leena Wokoeck (Germany), Tanya Nanette Badendyck (Norway), Philip Rutter(Denmark), Marje Jurtsenko (Estonia), Inge Faaborg (Denmark), Arry Voorsmit (Holland),Jon Steven Gilbert (UK) & Niels Erik Fonseca (Denmark)

The trainee tutors invited tojoin this year's Seven Samurai programme are:
Tiina Lokk(Estonia), Ulf Breistrand (Norway), Paola Mercadini (Italy), Karen Lee Street(UK), Dunja Gry Jensen (Denmark) & Jan Thorissen (Iceland).

The teams and projects invitedto join this year's East of Edenprogramme are:
Narcissus - Dovile Gasiunaite andTeresa Ziboliene (Lithuania),
The Shining World - Pavel Jech, Michael Baumbruck, and Karla Stojakova(Czech Republic),
The First Balkan Dogma - Aneta Lesnikovska and Martina Bozhilova(Macedonia),
A Town of Illusions - Macin Wrona, Agata Rzepka and Agnieszka Janowska(Poland),
Where the Souls Go - Aidi Vallik and Anneli Ahven (Estonia)
The Funeral - Ales Nadai and Matjaz Javsnik (Slovenia).