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15 News Top Hollywood screenwriting guru to set up institute in Malta TEODOR RELJIC maltatoday, SUNDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2013 2013 Court Notice of the Courts of Justice, Republic Street, Valletta. Date, Time, and Number of Judicial Sale YOUR FIRST CLICK OF THE DAY www.maltatoday.com.mt Property 7 November, 2013 10:30am – 40/13 Room and its own airspace forming part of tenement number sixty seven (67) gja eighty two (82) in Triq il-Kbira, Had-Dingli, with all its rights and appurtenances together with its pro-rata share of the common parts with the enjoyments of the other rooms forming part of the said tenement valued at twelve thousand euro (!12,000). 12 November, 2013 11:00am – 70/12 Semi detached villa number forty four (44) named Villa Fusina and underlying basement garage in Triq �org Zammit, Attard free and unencumbered valued four hundred and fifty thousand euro (!450,000). 14 November, 2013 10:30am – 60/11 Maisonette number eighty two (82) in Triq San �org, Santa Venera, including part of the property airspace as in part is underlying third party property, subject to annual and perpetual ground rent of two euro and thirty three cents (!2.33), subject to passive servitudes and its active rights resulting from its relative position the rest free and unencumbered with all its rights and enjoyments, valued at seventy nine thousand euro (!79,000). 14 November, 2013 11:00am – 26/13 House number twenty two (22), namely 'Dorlin', together with an underlaying garage, in new street emerging in Cannon Road, Qormi, subjected to annual and perpetual ground rent of forty-six Euros and fifty-nine cents (!46.59) and valued at two hundred thousand Euros (!200,000). AMERICAN scriptwriting guru Robert McKee, immortalised by actor Brian Cox in the Nicolas Cage starring movie Adaptation, will be setting up the 'International Institute for Writers' in Malta this November. McKee is famous for his 'Story Seminar', an influential screenwriting workshop previously attended by film industry luminaries like Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby, Crash), John Cleese, Geoffrey Rush and Joan Rivers amongst others. According to Jesmond Pace, a former student of McKee's and the driving force behind the initiative to set up the Institute on our shores, the Institute will be officially Robert McKee: "I don't want to be loved" launched in Malta on 29 November, while Robert McKee will deliver a one-day 'Business Story Seminar' the following day. tion writers, journalists or anyone An ongoing programme is cur- working in any kind of field which rently being devised for the Institute, requires writing. which Pace says has the full supPace says that the initial idea was port of Education Minister Evarist for the Institute to specialise in writBartolo. The initiative has been in ing for film, however the limitations the works over the past couple of of the local film industry proved to years, but Pace however said that the be too big a deterrent. March elections of this year stalled "The local film industry just moves the whole process. too slowly – that's the problem. But "I was very glad that both Home instead on giving up on the idea, McAffairs Minister Manuel Mallia Kee then suggested that we can focus [whose ministry is now responsible on the writing for business angle to for the local film industry] and Min- start with," Pace said. ister Bartolo helped reinvigorate the In fact, the inaugural seminar, project, because by that point I had taking place at the Mediterranean become very frustrated, and some- Conference Centre in Valletta on what embarrassed, with the way the 29 November, will delve into ways project kept stalling," Pace said. 'business leaders and executives of According to Pace, Robert McKee all fields' can apply McKee's storywas ultimately swayed to set up the telling approach to better sell their Institute in Malta because he saw product. plenty of "potential" here. Robert McKee gained further pop"During my conversations with ularity after his approach to screenMcKee, we agreed that Malta's own writing was affectionately satirised 'story' is yet to be told in the way it in the 2002 film Adaptation, starring deserves – there's a very rich cultural Nicolas Cage as a pair of screenwritand historical background that could ing twins with diametrically opposed be exploited for stories," Pace said. approaches to the craft – with DonUnsurprisingly, Malta's geographi- ald, the more 'commercial' of the cal location was also a determining pair, adhering to McKee's teachings factor, the idea being that the Insti- while Charlie, a struggling and artistute would serve as a bridge between tically inclined screenwriter, rejectNorth African and European mar- ing what he sees to be a contrived kets. and formulaic way of approaching "We're not just looking at this as filmmaking. being beneficial to Malta, because Commenting on a pivotal scene let's face it, the audiences in Malta in the film, in which McKee himself are quite small. But while also em- appears as a character, portrayed by powering local writers, the Institute award-winning British actor Brian will enable access to other more lu- Cox, McKee said that after several crative international markets," Pace meetings with the production team said, adding that one of the issues of Adaptation, he was satisfied with McKee pointed out about Malta is the end result, particularly with that we tend to look "inwards" rather Cox's performance – whom he had than "outwards", and that the In- the hand-picked for the role as he stitute could work towards helping trusted him not to "sentimentalise" Maltese writers, producers and busi- his character. nessmen polish up their product and "I couldn't be sure about other acmake it more accessible to the wider tors, because actors love to be loved. world. I don't want to be loved, I want my The Institute will indeed look to students to love the art," McKee cater to writers of all kinds, be they said in an interview for the YouTube aspiring film scriptwriters, prose fic- channel Big Think. COURT NOTICE The Registrar, Civil Courts and Tribunals notifies that the First Hall of the Civil Court ordered the sale by judicial auction of the following property to be held in the corridors of theof the Civil Justice, Republic Street, judicial auction of the following p The Registrar, Civil Courts and Tribunals notifies that the First Hall Courts of Court ordered the sale by Valletta. A garage, without airspace, unofficial numbered six (6) in Vincenzo Arario Street, �ebbu�, free and unencumbered and valued at thirty-six thousand Euros (!36,000). A garage, without airspace, unofficial numbered eight (8) in Vincenzo Arario Street, free and unencumbered and valued at thirty-six thousand six hundred Euros (!36,600). 14 November, 2013 11:30am – 84/12 The tenement numbered twenty five (25), in Sqaq San Pawl, Birkirkara, named 'Geneve', subject to annual and perpetual ground rent of nine euro and thirty two euro cents (!9.32), free and unencumbered, with all its rights and enjoyments valued at one hundred and thirty five thousand and seven hundred euro (!135,700). 19 November, 2013 10:30am – 20/10 Farmhouse and annexed garages numbered fifty-one (51), fifty-two (52), fifty-three (53) and fiftyfour (54), in Zejtun Road, Marsaxlokk, together with the annexed land, valued at seven hundred and forty-seven thousand euro (!747,000). Half undivided (") share of the tenement unnumbered and named 'Saint Sebastian' in Triq Barthlemy, Marsaxlokk, free and unencumbered, valued at one and ten hundred thousand euro (!110,000). Half undivided (") share of the penthouse, marked with the number (6) 'Ascot Building', Dawret il-G�ejjer, Bu�ibba, free and unencumbered, valued at one hundred and five thousand euro (!105,000.) 19 November, 2013 11:00am – 97/12 Flat 4, Arizona Court, Triq Santa Aristarkus, St. Paul's Bay, offers should begin from one hundred and forty nine thousand four hundred and eighty euro (!149,480) together with the movables. 19 November, 2013 11:30am – 46/13 Apartment internally marked number eleven (11) forming part of an unnumbered block of buildings known as Block letter "F", in Triq il-Peprin, Santa Lucia, including a share in those parts of the block which are intended for the common use and the right of use of the roof. The starting offer should be from ninety three thousand, one hundred and seventy five Euros (!93, 175). 21 November, 2013 11:00am – 73/12 Ten (10) garages, without name but unofficially numbered with numbers forty two (42), forty three (43), forty four (44), forty five (45), forty six (46), forty seven (47), forty eight (48), forty nine (49), fifty (50) and fifty one (51). The said garages form part from a block of building with no number and no name. The said garages had an entrance from a common drive in, accessible from a new street without a name that emerges in Triq Manoel de Vilhena, Birkirkara. They benefit from the right of passage with the car on the said drive in and every garage is subject to an annual and perpetual sub-ground rent of nine euro and thirty two euro cents (!9.32), otherwise free and unencumbered with all their rights and appurtenances, valued approximately at two hundred and fifty thousand euro (!250,000). 26 November, 2013 10:30am – 44/13 Garage 282, Marshall Place, Triq il-Kampanella: property consisting of a garage for business purposes of around two hundred and sixty square metres (260m2), free and unencumbered, at street level, having a narrow yard on the back. There are also toilets and a small store and a small spiral staircase leading to garage number 13 Chanel Drive. The property is valued at three hundred and fifty thousand Euros (!350,000). Garage unofficially numbered 13, Chanel Drive, Triq il-�i�i, Fgura: property consisting in an 'L' shape with access from Chanel Drive, of around one hundred square metres (100m2), free and unencumbered, at basement level. There is also a small toilet and a small shaft. The property is valued at one hundred and ten thousand Euros (!110,000). Garage unofficially numbered 14, Chanel Drive, Triq il-�i�i, Fgura: property consisting of a one car garage at basement level of around twenty squares metres (20m2), free and unencumbered. The property is valued at fifteen thousand Euros (!15,000). Garage unofficially numbered 16, Chanel Drive, Triq il-�i�i, Fgura: property consisting in an 'L' shape with access from Chanel Drive of around one hundred and five square metres (105 m2), free and unencumbered, having an open space at the back which joins with garage number 13 and also having a shaft. The property is valued at one hundred and ten thousand Euros (!110,000). Garage unofficially numbered 36, Chanel Drive, Triq il-�i�i, Fgura: property consisting of a one car garage, underlying garage number 13, of around twenty squares metres (20m2), free and unencumbered. The property is valued at fifteen thousand Euros (!15,000). 26 November, 2013 11:00am - 102/12 Garage without its airspace internally marked three (3), lower basement level, Oak Leaf Apartments, Triq il-Kbira, Mosta, free and enuncumbered from any ground rent and burdens valued at thirty six thousands euro (!36,000). Further details can be obtained from the website: http://www.justiceservices.gov.mt/courtservices/JudicialSales/search.aspx Bruno !ahra For the Registrar of Civil Courts and Tribunals