Online
With 6 Saturdays 10:00-12:00 EST (1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, off, 3/1, 3/8)
This is a blended screenwriting class that accommodates both feature film and episodic television projects, allowing students to learn across formats. This six-week workshop will focus on story and character development, establishing conflict/obstacles, finding your structure, highlighting your voice, formatting issues/questions, pacing, dialogue and more. Over the course of these sessions, writers will set a writing goal and receive feedback geared toward moving their material to a full or revised draft. It is suitable for all level writers with works in progress, whether you are in the outline stage or already drafting.
WHERE:
Online via ZOOM
(link will be sent the week of 1st class)
Alana Sanko is an award-winning creator, writer and producer. For over two decades she has written and developed for comedy, drama and animated series, as well as TV movie and network and cable pilots across multiple platforms. Her Nickelodeon series, Just for Kicks, which she created and developed with Executive Producer Whoopi Goldberg, won her a WGA Award, and the animated MTV series Spy Groove, that she was Head Writer on, received an Annie Nomination. Additional writing credits include the ABC comedy pilot, See Jayne Run, the Disney Channel Original Movie Get a Clue, and the acclaimed CBS television series Murphy Brown, which was named on the WGA’s list of 101 Best TV Series. Alana has also written for numerous children’s series and was a Consulting Producer for Half Life, the limited series winner of the NYC women’s initiative screenwriting competition #GreenlightHer. She is currently a producer on an independent feature and has taught at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Long Island University’s TV Writers Studio, Purchase College’s School of Film and Media Studies and the Sundance Institute’s online platform, Sundance Co//ab.Â
