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.
closes in 3 days
Workshop or class Beaconsfield, United Kingdom
Scriptwriting for Film and TV
Run by National Film and Television School
A six-day course at the NFTS campus outside London for writers who want film or TV drama commissions. It centers on narrative and covers treatments, synopses, adaptation and script layout, with writing every evening and meetings with established writers and agents. Applicants send a two-page treatment.
Starts Feb 3, 2027 (starts in 106 days)
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Dates
It runs Feb 3 to 10, 2027 in Beaconsfield.
At a glance
- Cost
- From £995Freelance rate; corporate rate GBP 1,990
- Formats
- Feature, Series
- Held in
- English
- Where
- Beaconsfield, United Kingdom (in person)
- Who can attend
- Writers aiming for feature or TV drama commissions; the school selects from applications.
What to send
- Length
- Two-page treatment
- Also asked for
- Application form with CV, plus a two-page treatment of the idea you will develop or a finished piece of writing, emailed to the short courses team.
Need your pages in standard screenplay format first? The free screenplay formatter lays them out and saves a PDF.
What it gives besides money
Six class days around a free weekend, nightly writing, analysis of film sequences, and sessions with working writers and literary agents on how the industry hires.
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