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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Stage 32 8-Part Screenwriting Lab: Write your Sci-Fi or Fantasy Script in 8 Weeks
Six Saturday classes on Zoom and two private consultations take a writer with a sci-fi, fantasy or supernatural idea from logline to a revised draft. The mentor, Thomas Vitale, ran original movies and series at Syfy for years, and the group is capped at ten.
Starts Oct 24, 2026 (starts in 4 days)
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Dates
It runs Oct 24 to Dec 12, 2026.
At a glance
- Cost
- From $799Payment plans at checkout
- Formats
- Feature
- Held in
- English
- Where
- Online
- Who can attend
- Writers and writer-directors at any level with a science fiction, fantasy or supernatural project. Ten places, sold in booking order.
What to send
- Also asked for
- Weekly deliverables: logline and summary, a 6 to 10 page outline, character bios, opening pages, a first draft and a revision.
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 two-hour group classes on Zoom (Saturdays, 9 to 11 a.m. PT), two private consultations with notes on your pages, email access to the mentor, a Stage 32 Lounge thread for the group, and recordings of every class.
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