The Business of Screenwriting *Crash Course*
Screenwriter Professional Development
- Date Saturday, July 10, 2021 (Zoom Class)
- Workshop Time: 10:30AM-3:30PM (EST)/7:30(PST)/4:30PM(BST)
- Covid19 Special Price: $20.21 (Normally $480)
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Your Screenplay + Festival Acceptance will be Noticeably Better after this Class!
(If you take good notes, have the humility to use my notes and apply them to your writing)
Your Instructor for the day is Sionainn Kelly, Award Winning Screenwriter, Script Doctor, Documentary Filmmaker plus Artistic Director, Lead Programmer and Mentor for the ReelHeART Festival Group’s
ReelHeART International Film and Screenplay Festival, ReelHeART International Screenplay and TV Pilot Script Competition, Toronto Beaches Film Festival, BumpnGrind Film And Performance Fest and GeekFestToronto.
Sionainn is a grateful, former student of North America’s most highly revered and admired Story Editors / Script Doctors in North America, Nika Rylski. Nika has story edited scripts on the Hollywood Blacklist every year, to films nominated for the Academy Awards®; Sionainn and Nika have taught Screenplay workshops as a Team for a few years.
For 2021, Sionainn will take the reigns and focus on the Business of Screenwriting.
As a Screenwriter competing internationally, Sionainn has won over 60 Awards and currently has 2 Projects in Hollywood making the rounds for Packaging and Options. Some of her award winning screenplays are:
- “3rd Degree Burn“, Feature Action, Adventure, Action, Thriller, Crime, Buddy
- “Kings of The Highway“, Feature Drama, Thriller, Crime, Suspense, Psychological Thriller
- “Pole Position“, TV Pilot/TV Series, Drama, Crime, Transgender, Urban Thriller
- “The Alien’s Puppets”, Feature Comedy, by Sionainn Kelly, Matheus Hrushka, Rubens Neto
- “The Brothers McDonagh“, Feature Drama, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Suspense, Mystery
This workshop is an absolute unique opportunity to develop and fine tune your Screenwriting Craft, Fix those nagging Format Errors that make you lose over and over again in Screenplay Competitions and Learn the Business of Screenwriting from someone who’s feet are firmly planted in both worlds, as a Screenwriting Contest Administrator and as a Screenwriter who enters Competitions.
Secure your seat now for this amazing day of insider knowledge that no other film festival or screenplay competition in the world will share publicly.
Some Topics May Include
Let’s Talk Shop
- Why Scripts Fail – Why Scripts Soar
- Submitting to Screenplay Competitions
- How the Screenwriter’s Goal Determines which Competitions to Enter
- Which Competitions to ignore (Some are just Cash Grabs)
- Which Competitions To Enter (You might be Surprised)
Getting Past The Screenplay Judges and Readers
- Who’s Reading Your Script
- How Much Do They Read?
- Common Errors that Earn a Pass with First readers and/or Judges
- In Screenwriting Competitions, a “Pass” means a “Fail”
The 1st 10 Pages!
- What Is Your Story Really About?
- Can a Reader See What Your Story Is About in the 1st 3-10 Pages?
- How to Get from Where You are Today to a Winning Script
Marketing YOU The Screenwriter
- Get on Social Media
- Let Agents, Production Houses Know About You without Annoying them
- Writer Portals – Are They Worth It? Which Ones To Choose
Let’s Workshop Your Script
- We will Take the 1st 10 Pages of (a selection) Of Scripts Today and Workshop It
- After Class, you’ll get the 1st 10 Pages Story Edited and sent back to You
- (not immediately, but soon)
Post Workshop
- You’ll be given an Exclusive Zoom Link for FREE Monday Workshops that run Twice a day since February 2020 – The next one starts Monday July 19
- If you want to improve your script and get it to decision makers – You Will Attend
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