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Workshop or class Montreal, Canada
La construction de personnages et de dialogues
Run by SARTEC (Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma)
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. It suits writers with some experience. Script doctor Benoit Pelletier picks the group from a letter and CV sent by October 23.
Deadline Oct 23, 2026 (closes in 3 days)
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Dates
| Deadline | Date | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| Application (letter of interest and CV) | Oct 23, 2026 | CAD 285 |
It runs Nov 10 to Dec 9, 2026 in Montreal.
Deadlines are as the organizer states them. Check the time zone on the official page.
At a glance
- Cost
- From CA$285One price for SARTEC members and non-members
- Formats
- Feature, Series
- Held in
- French
- Where
- Montreal, Canada (in person)
- Who can attend
- Intermediate level: anyone who already has some writing experience. SARTEC members are given priority for places.
What to send
- File
- Also asked for
- A letter explaining your interest plus a short professional CV, merged into a single PDF and emailed to SARTEC. The trainer chooses the group from these.
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 full days of classes (November 10, 11, 24 and 25, December 8 and 9) with writing homework between sessions, taught by screenwriter and script doctor Benoit Pelletier.
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