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
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Classes, masterclasses and courses with a fixed start date, in a room or on a video call. Each one here has a date you can plan around, so self-paced courses are left out.
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Short Script Lab 2026 (Online)
Writers and writer-directors with an original short screenplay can rework it here with mentors from the Doha Film Institute, online and in English.
closes in 4 days
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.
starts in 4 days
Genre Series Development Workshop (47th Cairo International Film Festival, Cairo Industry Days)
Writers based in Egypt who are shaping a crime, horror, fantasy, thriller or science fiction series can apply to this festival workshop for Arabic genre series.
closes in 5 days
Pitch Lab: Develop Your Winning Pitch
Writers and producers with five or more years in the business can spend two days in Toronto at the end of October shaping one project's pitch with WIFT+ Toronto.
closes in 5 days
Stage 32 8-Part Screenwriting Lab: Write Your TV Animation
Evan Anglin, who co-heads the animation department at Zero Gravity Management, leads this eight-week Sunday lab on Zoom for writers with an animated series in mind.
starts in 5 days
BBC Writers Digital Session for Screenwriting Students
BBC Writers holds this free one-hour webinar, from 1 to 2 p.m. UK time, to explain to students nearing the end of a screenwriting degree what the department does and how TV drama works.
closes in 6 days
Rewriting Your Screenplay and Crafting Your Pitch
Writers who already have a full feature draft spend eight weekly Zoom classes revising it with screenwriter Jen Harrington, on Wednesday mornings Pacific time from December into February.
closes in 7 days
Stage 32 Screenwriting Lab: Write a Comedy TV Pilot in 6 Weeks - From Concept To Completed Script (October 2026)
In this six-week lab, literary manager Spencer Robinson of Art/Work Entertainment gives notes on a comedy pilot's outline, each act and the full draft.
starts in 11 days
Guionistas del siglo 21: taller intensivo de guión para cine, televisión e internet
Cuba's international film school runs a three-week Spanish-language screenwriting course in November 2026 for up to 12 students, taught by Daniel Tubau.
starts in 13 days
Screenwriting: Core Elements (Self-paced), November 2026 session
Trey Ellis teaches this nine-week introduction to feature screenwriting for writers starting from an idea or a rough first draft.
closes in 13 days
Robert McKee's STORY Webinar Series (2026 Fall Program)
Robert McKee's STORY seminar, given as 15 pre-recorded lectures of about 90 minutes, shown on Zoom three afternoons a week for five weeks.
starts in 14 days
Save the Cat! Beat Sheet Workshop
Playwright and TV writer John Yearley takes up to eight writers from a bare idea to a full 15-beat outline using the Save the Cat method.
starts in 16 days
South Auckland Short Film Workshop 2026
A one-day class at Friendship House in Manukau for people in South Auckland with an idea for a short film, taught by Tavu'i Dr. Marina Alofagia McCartney, whose credits include the feature…
starts in 18 days
Residential Writing Course: Adaptation
Writers turning a novel, a podcast or a true family story into a TV series, single drama or play can spend Monday to Saturday at Arvon's Shropshire house with Hannah Griffiths, who runs…
starts in 20 days
Screenwriting: From Outline to First Draft of Your Screenplay (November 2026 session)
Writers who already have an outline, or a draft to rebuild, spend 15 weeks turning it into a complete feature draft of 90 to 120 pages.
closes in 20 days
Writing the TV Pilot
Over two weeks on Zoom, writers draft a full 50-minute pilot for an original drama series, writing a few minutes a day and rewriting overnight.
starts in 20 days
Drafting Your Feature Screenplay in Five Days
Kat O'Brien teaches this Monday-to-Friday Zoom intensive on drafting a feature quickly, from 1 to 4 p.m. Pacific each afternoon.
closes in 23 days
Basic Course in the Art of Screenwriting (Online and Weekend)
On weekends from mid December to mid February, FTII's Centre for Open Learning teaches screenwriting online in English and Hindi, led by Hindi film writer Vikas Sharma.
closes in 24 days
Online Writing Day: Screenwriting (TV Pitch Writing Bootcamp)
A one-day Zoom class with screenwriter and story producer Tolula Dada on writing the documents that sell a TV idea: the premise, the logline, the characters and what keeps a series running.
starts in 24 days
Crafting Your Short Film Screenplay (December 2026 session)
Over eight self-paced weeks, writers take one short film idea to a finished script of 5 to 15 pages, with lectures by Asher Jelinsky and written notes from an advisor twice along the way.
closes in 27 days
TV Writing: Core Elements (Self-paced), December 2026 session
For writers new to television, Angela LaManna's eight-week course works from a series idea to a full outline of the pilot episode.
closes in 27 days
TV Writing: From Outline to First Draft of Your Pilot
A ten-week course for taking an original TV pilot from outline to a first draft under 60 pages.
closes in 27 days
Expertiser un scénario de fiction (cinéma ou série)
La Fémis runs this part-time course in Paris for experienced readers, consultants and writers who want to sharpen how they assess and give notes on feature and series scripts.
closes in 28 days
Online Screenwriting Course for Film & TV
Ten full days of live online teaching spread across five weekends, for at most eight students, each writing a short screenplay of their own with notes from tutors and classmates.
starts in 32 days
Financiación de cine independiente: dossier, pitch, mercados y coproducciones
Writers with a project in hand, even just a synopsis, spend two weeks in Cuba building the paperwork to finance it: a sales dossier, a pitch and a list of labs, festivals and markets to…
starts in 34 days
Write. Design. Build. The Pitch Deck Masterclass
A one-day online class on putting together a pitch deck for a feature, TV pilot or limited series, taught by filmmaker Fenella Greenfield, who runs Euroscript's annual Screen Story…
starts in 40 days
Lights, Action, Christmas!
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.
starts in 41 days
Television Writing Conservatory
Eight writers spend most of 2027 in this live Zoom class from UCLA Extension, meeting two evenings a week to write two original pilots, each with an outline, a pitch and a bible.
closes in 41 days
Introduction to Script Editing for Film and TV
Two days on Zoom with Jackie Thornton, a development script editor who has worked for See-Saw Films and Netflix UK, on reading a script critically and writing notes a writer can act on.
starts in 51 days
Schreiben im Dokumentarfilm (Von der Idee zur Drehvorlage)
Taught in German in Bern, this three-day course looks at how to write for documentary when the shoot cannot be fully planned.
closes in 54 days
Getting Started Writing Your Feature Film Screenplay
Oxford's continuing education department runs this ten-week online course for people starting their first feature screenplay.
starts in 83 days
La direction littéraire
An 18-day program in Paris, spread from mid-January to mid-March, that trains script editors to analyze fiction projects at each stage, find their strong and weak points and propose…
starts in 85 days
Lecture de scénario
Two Fridays in January in Paris on writing script coverage: judging the artistic and commercial chances of a feature script and shaping the reading report to whoever ordered it.
starts in 87 days
De la idea al resultado: guion y dirección documental
Writing and directing a long-form documentary is the subject of this two-week course at EICTV in Cuba, taught in Spanish by Carles Bosch in January 2027.
starts in 90 days
Del guion a la dirección, la fotografía y el montaje
In this first edition of a two-week course at Cuba's international film school, writers follow a fiction script as it is reshaped on set, behind the camera and in the cutting room.
starts in 104 days
Residential Writing Course: Screenwriting
Script editor Kate Leys and screenwriter Olivia Hetreed, who first collaborated on the film Girl with a Pearl Earring, lead a residential week for writers of feature films and single dramas.
starts in 104 days
Feature Film Lab
Writers with a feature idea meet online every Wednesday evening for ten weeks to turn it into a four-page treatment and a finished first act, reading each other's pages along the way.
starts in 106 days
Scriptwriting for Film and TV
A six-day course at the NFTS campus outside London for writers who want film or TV drama commissions.
starts in 106 days
Online Writing Day: Screenwriting (The fundamentals of writing for TV)
Playwright and screenwriter Ishy Din spends a Friday on Zoom testing whether an idea can carry a television series: its world, characters who generate plot, and a structure that keeps…
starts in 122 days
Développer un dossier de présentation convaincant en long métrage de fiction
For screenwriters preparing a fiction feature for producers and development funders, this one-day French-language class covers what funders ask for, a short synopsis, a five-page synopsis…
closes in 129 days
Construire un épisode de série policière
Seven days in Paris on building one episode of a crime series, from breaking down the investigation to letting emotion drive the plot.
starts in 149 days
Conseiller.ère.s à la scénarisation : les spécialistes du multi-tâches
Writers who want to work as script consultants can spend two days in Montreal, in French, on what the job asks: reading a project with distance, spotting structure problems and giving…
closes in 150 days
Le moteur dramatique d'une série
A two-day class in Paris, in French, on finding the engine that keeps a series going and planning a season around it.
starts in 177 days
Developing and Pitching Drama
Peter Ansorge, a former head of drama at Channel 4, runs three online days on shaping a drama idea and pitching it out loud.
starts in 197 days
A Practical Guide to Writing Comedy Drama
Screenwriter and script consultant Hannah Robinson, who has worked with Lenny Henry and Russell T Davies, teaches two days in Leeds on writing comedy drama: why audiences laugh, comic tone…
closes in 211 days
Écrire pour une série quotidienne
A course in Paris on writing for French daily soaps, taught by the writers, script editors and producers behind shows such as Demain nous appartient and Ici Tout Commence.
starts in 220 days