Previously on "The Life and Adventures of Gábor Krigler"
Some 29 years ago in an ugly provincial mining town in Hungary a boy was born. Gábor was raised with great care, and during the course of ordinary and not so ordinary events "none too cinematic" he grew up. Fast forward 23 years, when he landed a job in the capital city of the country. Hungry for challenge, Gábor moved up to the big city and became a storyliner in the country's then only daily television drama serial. Within half a year of his coming onboard the show?s ratings went through the roof. Although no one has ever been able to prove a connection between the two phenomena, Gábor likes to think he played at least a tiny part in the massive success of Between Friends. Our hero worked with great dedication and learned a lot about the craft of writing for the screen. After three years of working as a storyliner "having participated in the creation of nearly a thousand episodes for the show" he was promoted to the position of assistant story editor, managing the daily creative work of the writing department. However, one more year as a story editor of the show and Gábor felt he was fed up with working for the same serial for so long. He was ready for some new challenges. Boy, did he get them. After leaving the comfy and warm cocoon of being a writer on assignment at a popular TV serial, Gábor worked as a script analyst and tried to get an own TV show off the ground, having developed its concept and scripts for almost a year. However, Hungary is a small country, hence a very small market for TV and film, which is extremely hard to break unless you happen to be a large multinational company like the one that produces Between Friends. So despite a produced pilot episode, the show has never been picked up. Instead, Gábor wrote the first Hungarian language guide to writing screenplays for television. It was a considerable critical success, earning him teaching positions at the Hungarian Academy of Drama and Film and the Budapest Media Institute. Gábor also co-founded his own screenwriting school. Meanwhile, he started developing feature film scripts. With a colleague, he is working on a book on writing feature films, you guessed it right, also the first of its kind in Hungarian. Then one day he applied to a mysterious screenwriting course called "Script & Pitch Workshops" (to be continued?)