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Feature-Length Screenwriting: Weekly Jan 7 – March 4

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland, OR, United States

Start the New Year right and finish your feature-length screenplay! This screenwriting workshop will focus on intensive feedback culminating in participants finishing a feature-length script by the end of our nine week workshop. We will help you electrify your story idea and/or help you adapt your piece of fiction or nonfiction into a format suitable for a script. Some previous knowledge of screenwriting structure is recommended but not required. Also as a part of this workshop we will discuss strategies for selling your script and/or getting it made into a film. Taught by Writer/Director Andy Mingo: Andy is a seasoned screenwriter who has adapted fiction to screen from authors like Monica Drake, Lidia Yuknavitch, and Chuck Palahniuk. He and Palahniuk recently co-wrote the script adaptation…

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$300

It Tells You: Poetry to Script Workshop with Laura Houlberg

third room 707 NE Broadway (Suite 205), Portland, OR, United States

it’s back! It Tells You: Poetry to Script workshop with @lo__lands this August. Learn screenwriting fundamentals! Adapt a poem to a short script! Give & receive helpful peer feedback! Present final piece to your friends! Poetry is for everyone, screenwriting is for everyone, we have a right to visual culture and story telling is ours! We deserve our humanity in image! $25-50 sliding scale, no one turned away! Sign up link bio :-)

$25 – $50

Online: The Art Of Screenwriting w/ Andy Mingo

The Internet 001 SE Cyberspace Lane, Portland, OR, United States

Whether you're a first time screenwriter with a vision for film, or if you've written a fictional piece you would like to adapt to the big screen this online, 6 week intensive screenwriting workshop is for you. Beyond screenplay format and the three act format, this workshop will dive deep to explore the emotional meaning that you bring to the page. We will develop characterization from the inside out and discover a connection with a scripted story that will be ready to film. The class will consist of weekly videos lessons and online content that will culminate in a short 10-page script. Week 1: Finding Character Week 2: Deep States and Action Week 3: Emotional & Dramatic Flow Week 4: Connections For A Larger Structure…

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$275

Willamette Writers Online Conference

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Pitch agents. Sit down with producers. Sharpen your manuscript with industry pros. You can do all this from the comfort of your own home, July 30 – August 2, 2020! Featuring keynote speakers Cheryl Strayed, Pete Souza, Mitchell S. Jackson, Zoraida Córdova, Rosanne Parry, and more! With over 80 virtual workshops, as well as night events, critiques, and gatherings, you're sure to find your community, develop your craft, and expand your career this year. Whether you're a poet, a screenwriter, a novelist, or a techie, you'll find your home at our annual conference. What's that? You're a memoirist? You're going to love our classes on voice and style, taught by New York Times Bestselling Authors. Newbie? Great! Come learn with us! Published 80 books? We're…

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$249 – $349

Spec Script: Dragon Ball Z and Entourage

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Enjoy two tv shows for the boys written by people who have never seen them live on twitch! We have a new episode of Dragon Ball Z by Jaren George and our classic episode of Entourage by Lydia Manning. Read by Katie Rose Leon, Jeffrey Jay, and more! Saturday 8/22 1pm PDT! https://www.twitch.tv/specscript

Free

Submission Deadline: SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

The only way to get change is not through the courts or—heaven forbid—the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts can we really reach each other. ― Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo) EMPOWERMENT, ACTION, LIBERATION The SHIFT – Transformative Change and Indigenous Arts program supports artist and community-driven projects responding to social, environmental or economic justice issues through a Native lens. The program focuses on efforts that are built upon community cultural assets, resilience and strengths and draw increased attention to Native communities, perspectives and challenges, shifting a national narrative of invisibility, misunderstanding and misappropriation. SHIFT provides invaluable resources for project development, production and presentation for the artists and their collaborators. Resistance is its own…

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Free

Submission Deadline: LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what and that we are. —N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) NURTURE, ELEVATE, UNFOLD LIFT – Early Career Support for Native Artists program will provide invaluable support to early career Native artists with one-year awards to develop and realize new projects. Support for burgeoning artists is critical in developing fresh voices and envisioning the future of our respective Native practices. LIFT encourages artists to uplift communities, advance positive social change, point courageously toward environmental sustainability, and foster communal meaning making. Following extensive research and strategic planning, LIFT refocuses NACF’s programmatic efforts to expand the potential of emergent Native artists. LIFT consists of…

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Free

Six Month Screenwriting Intensive

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

“Screenplays…are primarily a narrative blueprint for cinematic interpretation. They require certain beats, certain layouts, and certain terminology to communicate the visual and audio needs of an eventual production — a production that hundreds of professionals will collaborate on.” – Ken Miyamoto, Screencraft “The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.” – Raymond Chandler The art and craft of writing for the screen is a skill that all authors would do well to have in their creative arsenals. On one level, prose fiction, memoir, non-fiction, all these forms have been, and will continue to be, sought out by the film industry as foundations for works in…

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$1,100
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