Patricia Drati
Script Tutor
Denmark

Patricia Drati is an award-winning producer, director, and film development consultant of Ugandan origin, working with both documentary and fiction. After completing BA in Film Studies, she worked for several years as a journalist and writer. Between 2009-2015, Patricia was Head of CPH:LAB at CPH:DOX. She curated, developed, and managed the cross-cultural training and production lab for international filmmaking talents, where she initiated more than 40 low budget films, awarded in Venice, IFF Rotterdam and Visions du Réel among others. In 2016 Patricia became a partner in Copenhagen-based production company Good Company Pictures, where she works as a creative producer, and where she is currently developing two feature documentaries as a director. In her own films, Patricia is interested in exploring the layers of female identity. In addition to her work as a filmmaker, Patricia has been a consultant for Torino Film Lab, Less Is More, IFF Rotterdam, First Cut Lab, BFI Doc Society Fund, Hot Docs Blue Ice Fund and Doha Film Institute. She served on juries at Vision du Réel, Karlovy Vary IFF, Docudays UA, Interfilm Berlin, CPH:DOX and IDA Documentary Awards.

Laure Desmazières
Script Tutor
France

Laure Desmazières grew up in Grenoble, France. After studying at La Fémis, she became a screenwriter, filmmaker, and consultant. With a style oscillating between drama and comedy, she directed two short films around questions of violence, the painful transition from the personal to the public eye, and the creation of exceptional friendships. Primarily a screenwriter for film, she has written approximately ten shorts, recently Christopher at Sea by Tom CJ Brown (multiple international awards), as well as feature films Blanco en Blanco by Théo Court (award winner at the Venice International Film Festival) and Vade Retro by Antonin Peretako (in post-production). In 2024, she authored her first novel, Coupez!, published by Quidam Editeur. She currently is a script consultant for various development programs – Produire au Sud, le Moulin d’Andé, Poitiers Film Festival, La Scénaristerie.

Nayeem Mahbub
Script Tutor
Bangladesh / Sweden

Nayeem Mahbub is an international script consultant and ESP alum based between Stockholm and Tallinn. He has consulted and mentored for EAVE Producers Workshop, LIM Boosting Ideas, Hamburg Series Lab and Pop Up Film Residency amongst others, as well as on a project basis. Before switching to consulting, he worked as a film and video editor with the Swedish comedy series Streams (SVT) and multiple commercials to his name. He is an alumni of the multinational documentary masters programme DOCNomads. His career started with writing and directing 2D animation in his native Bangladesh, followed by a short stint as a BBC World Service producer.