Robin Swicord

Robin Swicord was born in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, in 1952.
She is a writer known for her literary adaptations. She wrote the screenplay for THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (2008), MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA (2005) and LITTLE WOMEN (2019), among others.

For THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Golden Globe for Best Screenplay. She has been married to Nicholas Kazan since 1984. They have two children.

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Summer School of the University of Television and Film Munich

1. Participation and Registration

The HFF Munich Summer School is open in principle to anyone who submits a complete registration within the published deadline, meets any workshop-specific requirements set out as binding in the relevant workshop description, and pays the course fee on time.

Late or incomplete registrations will not be considered.

Places are limited and will be allocated in the order in which complete registrations are received, provided that the number of registrations does not exceed the number of available places. There is no legal entitlement to a place on a workshop.

2. Admission and Binding Registration

Once you receive confirmation of your place, your registration becomes binding and forms a contract between you and HFF.

3. Course Fee and Payment Deadlines

The course fee is set out in the relevant workshop description.

The course fee is due as follows, and you must be able to provide proof of payment:

for the workshop “Script in 23 Days”: by July 13, 2026 at the latest;

for all other workshops: by August 17 2026 at the latest.

What counts for meeting the deadline is when the payment arrives in the account specified by HFF, not when it is sent. It is the participant’s responsibility to provide proof of timely payment.

If payment is not received on time, HFF is entitled to cancel the contract and offer the place to someone else.

4. Cancellation by Participants

You may cancel your participation free of charge up until the relevant payment deadline set out in Section 3. The cancellation must be sent in good time by email to info@hff-summerschool.de.

After the relevant payment deadline has passed, cancellation is no longer free of charge, and the full course fee remains payable.

5. Cancellation and Changes by the Organiser

HFF reserves the right to cancel or postpone individual workshops if there are too few participants, if instructors are unavailable, or for other important reasons.

If HFF cancels a workshop, any course fee already paid will be refunded in full.
Minor changes to the programme, the instructors, or the venue are considered reasonable, provided they do not substantially alter the overall character of the workshop.

6. Data Protection

Personal data is processed in accordance with the applicable data protection laws, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Bavarian Data Protection Act (BayDSG). Further information on how personal data is processed can be found here under the Summer School section.