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
Lights, Action, Christmas!
Run by Story Summit
Holiday TV movies are the whole subject of these four evening Zoom classes with Karen Schaler and Joany Kane, both of whom have written Christmas films for Netflix, Hallmark and Lifetime. One night covers the one-page pitch, and students can apply to pitch producers live on the last evening, December 15.
Starts Nov 30, 2026 (starts in 41 days)
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Dates
It runs Nov 30 to Dec 15, 2026.
At a glance
- Cost
- From $297The page also advertises a USD 197 early-bird price with no end date; included for Story Summit members
- Formats
- Feature
- Held in
- English
- Where
- Online
- Who can attend
- Open to anyone interested in writing a holiday movie; the page names screenwriters and novelists.
What to send
- Length
- One-page pitch
- Also asked for
- Students may apply to pitch on the final night; selected writers get help preparing.
Need your pages in standard screenplay format first? The free screenplay formatter lays them out and saves a PDF.
What it gives besides money
Live feedback on premises and characters, a session on writing a one-page pitch, a chance to pitch holiday movie producers on Zoom on December 15, a seat at a December 20 read-through of holiday scripts, and recordings of each night.
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