Join instructor Alexandra Viets to learn more about our upcoming year-long screenwriting workshop! This info session will allow interested screenwriters to meet Alexandra (virtually) and ask questions about the program. Please RSVP below to save your seat. A Zoom link will be emailed to participants prior to the event date.
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Screenwriting Intensive: A Year of Film
Get your story ready for the screen!
This intensive year-long workshop in screenwriting, now in its second year, provides you with a community of serious screenwriters and a structured setting to complete, revise, and workshop a feature-length screenplay under the direction of an award-winning screenwriter. The class meets every other week for twenty-one sessions from January 7 to November 11, 2021 with a break during July. The course is limited to 10 participants to provide an intensive, MFA level of discipline and rigor. Each participant will have the opportunity to present a total of 275 pages, including an original draft and the completed revision of a feature-length script.
Workshops include craft lectures on filmic structure, character development, scene dynamics and dialogue, in addition to working on adaptations. Class discussions will regularly incorporate screenings of select films to help illustrate and identify craft elements of particular interest and need. Guest lectures will include Q&A with professional screenwriters and producers. In the early summer, students will workshop their scenes with local actors, gaining the experience of professional input. In the fall, there will be a staged reading of student scenes at The Writer’s Center or on Zoom.
Please do not register before being accepted in to the class.
To apply: please include a letter of interest along with a writing sample of a completed first act of approximately twenty-five to thirty pages. Preference will be given to intermediate to advanced screenwriters who are already immersed in a screenplay project. Send your submission to laura.spencer@{{{{homeurl_non_www}}}} by December 18.
NOTE ABOUT COVID-19
Because of the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, this class will be conducted on ZOOM with possible in-person sessions later in the year as conditions permit. In an effort to encourage participants who do not live in the DC-area—as well as those who do not wish to participate in an in-person class—we will offer a hybrid approach so that it will be possible to participate either virtually or in person.