La construction de personnages et de dialogues
Quebec's screenwriters' guild runs this six-day French-language course on building fiction characters for film and TV and on what dialogue does, from function to subtext.
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Workshop or class Totleigh Barton, Devon, United Kingdom
Residential Writing Course: Screenwriting
Run by Arvon
Script editor Kate Leys and screenwriter Olivia Hetreed, who first collaborated on the film Girl with a Pearl Earring, lead a residential week for writers of feature films and single dramas. Exercises cover structure, character and visual storytelling, some of it shot on phones. It runs February 1 to 6, 2027 in rural Devon.
Starts Feb 1, 2027 (starts in 104 days)
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Dates
It runs Feb 1 to 6, 2027 in Totleigh Barton, Devon.
At a glance
- Cost
- From £915Room whose shared bathroom is reached by a covered outdoor path; GBP 980 with an indoor shared bathroom; limited 30 percent concessions
- Formats
- Feature
- Held in
- English
- Where
- Totleigh Barton, Devon, United Kingdom (in person)
- Who can attend
- Screenwriters at any level.
What to send
- Also asked for
- Book online. If you have them, bring an outline of the story you want to work on and a few chosen scenes.
Need your pages in standard screenplay format first? The free screenplay formatter lays them out and saves a PDF.
What it gives besides money
Morning workshops, a one-to-one tutorial with each tutor, a guest speaker still to be named, five nights' lodging with meals in a thatched Devon manor, and afternoons kept free for writing.
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