Our tutor

Kirsten Bonnén Rask has 40+ years of experience as a script consultant, in parallel to being a decision maker, teacher and project developer. Her services span all production types and formats, with multiple best script/film awards. Kirsten has also worked with Lars von Trier, Lone Scherfig and Bille August just to mention some. During the 40+ years she has read and advised on many hundred stories – shorts, series, features, documentaries.

She works with a focus on characters and that not all stories need to have the same structure. Asking about motives in the characters, about what´s important for the writer to tell, looking at the structures in the universe is important for developing the story and landing it structure wise.

Armin is a screenwriter, story editor, creative coach, mentor and consultant working in the entertainment industry for 31 years, 24 of those as a writer, head writer and script editor in live action and animation. Aside from mentoring and supporting the development of upcoming series (including mentoring at the German Academy for Children’s Media for seven years and teaching at the Huston School of Film & Digital Media in Galway, Ireland, and the La Poudriére animation school in Valence, France), he is in demand as a script doctor, consultant and developer of ideas and adaptations in film and television.

Building on an original concept that respects the passion of the creator as well as the requirements of the marketplace, Armin uses a variety of creative techniques in a modular approach to help the writer/producer team to generate a framework for an ongoing supply of original storylines and then mentors the creation of the bible, sample scripts and a final pitch.

A graduate of screenwriting at Łódź Film School, currently a PhD candidate there, Monika has developed a series of classes for screenwriting students. She is a co-writer of a feature New World (Akson Studio), a short doc Miss Holocaust (Furia Film, premiered at Berlinale 2017), and a number of shorts. She is currently developing her feature debut Blood Mother (Lava Films), supported by the Polish Film Institute. A member of the Polish Screenwriters’ Guild, Monika is also a script translator, working with several major Polish production companies.

Kendra Valentine is a Story Strategist that helps both creative and business projects through a method called Strategic Story Design. Her work focuses on identifying the “red thread” in a story and innovating authentic ways to share it. Her clients have included Nickelodeon, Electrolux, government institutions, and many start-ups. Her goal is to build a story studio that consults on client projects as well as produces original content for a global ‘age-agnostic’ audience

Martyna graduated from StoryLab.pro in 2019 and became a certificated script consultant. Having developed a few projects, she is gradually finding the right direction in her profession. In 2021, she made her first steps in writing professional opinions about scripts. In the same year, she was an expert in Audioteka’s and StoryLab.pro’s “Wezwanie #Family” project, where she wrote feedback about audio series concepts. She is an aspiring screenwriter, currently completing her first short movie script.