Scriptwriting Essentials & The Art of Writing Strong Female Characters

Take a beginners scriptwriting workshop that will cover the essentials of writing character-driven scripts for TV, film & web series.

Enjoy a beginning scriptwriting workshop that will cover the essentials of writing scripts for TV, Film and Web Series. Create a character driven script for your audience and turn your script into a film, television series or a digital media series.  Our professional instructors have successfully guided writers in developing scripts for film and television.

Scriptwriting Essentials will offer tips on pitching your script to such major content platforms as OWN, Netflix, BET and HBO. You will learn how to write strong and richly layered women characters as well as the nuts and bolts of writing scripts that sell. Enjoy a nurturing and open creative environment where you will have a chance to write your first script or develop a work-in-progress.

The workshop is being presented by Reel Sisters, the first Oscar Qualifying Festival for short narratives devoted to women filmmakers, and BRIC, the leading presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, and one of the largest in New York City. Scriptwriting Essentials is a Trademark of Reel Sisters, the nation’s leading film festival devoted to women of color. 

BRIC presents and incubates new work by artists and media-makers who reflect the diversity that surrounds us.

African Voices thanks the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council and private funders for supporting Scriptwriting Essentials.

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