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 Online
Getting Started Writing Your Feature Film Screenplay
Run by University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education (Lifelong Learning)
Oxford's continuing education department runs this ten-week online course for people starting their first feature screenplay. Video lectures and reading are paired with a weekly one-hour webinar on Microsoft Teams at 13:30 UK time, and tutor Carl Schoenfeld marks the coursework, which can earn university CATS credit.
Starts Jan 11, 2027 (starts in 83 days)
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Dates
It runs Jan 11 to Mar 22, 2027.
At a glance
- Cost
- From £430UK state benefit recipients and UK care leavers may get 50% off
- Formats
- Feature
- Held in
- English
- Where
- Online
- Who can attend
- Open to anyone; no experience needed. Taught in English, and the page notes that applicants with weaker English may find it harder, though no certificate is asked for.
What to send
- Also asked for
- Up to five pieces of coursework, marked pass or fail; at least one may be for feedback only.
Need your pages in standard screenplay format first? The free screenplay formatter lays them out and saves a PDF.
What it gives besides money
Individual tutor feedback on assignments, CATS credit for work at the required standard, a digital certificate on passing the final assignment, and twelve months of access to the course materials.
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