Control N Cultural Association is calling for entries for the 14th Edition of the First Draft screenwriting workshop, which, until now, had over 200 participants.
First Draft is dedicated to film lovers and people with no special training in screenwriting, and aims to give the participants, at the end of the 8 sessions, basic knowledge one screenwriting, and to make them able to analyse a script and be able to write their first screenplay for a short.
The participants will be guided step by step in writing a screenplay – the road from idea to premise, character, structure, writing. The course will be developed as a creative workshop where the participants will have absolute freedom to expose their ideas, being guided by professional advices and classical examples of the universal cinema. At the end of the 8 course sessions, each participant will have in their portfolio their first screenplay for a short film.
The course is delivered by
Ana Agopian, who signed, together with
Oana Răsuceanu and
Iulia Rugină, the screenplays for the feature films
Love Building,
Alt Love Building and
Breaking News (currently in post-production) and for the short and medium-length features
Hi, Cristina! Bye Cristina!,
Tabasco, Captivi de Crăciun/Captive at Christmas and
Să mori de dragoste rănită/To Die of a Wounded Heart. Presently, Ana is a lecturer with the “I.L.Caragiale” National Theatre and Film University, where she teaches screenwriting at the film faculty.
“The first time we organised First Draft who did not expect to be any entries. Or maybe just a few. Who wants to learn to write screenplays? – I asked myself. The surprise was that the number of entries was double the number of available places. And ever since then, every time we organised the workshop, we have continued to have a very large number of entries. Why? What makes a film lover to take the next step? To detach themselves from the TV and actively take part in making of a film? I think there are many answers. But mainly it is their passion form film that makes them want to write screenplays. Accountants, journalists, IT people, translators, sociologists o managers of multinational corporations, all those who came to First Draft have had an incredible passion for cinema. And for storytelling. And all First Draft nights have always been full of creative energy. Because each participant came with their own life experience that, one way or the other, was transposed into the scripts wrote during the course,” Ana Agopian stated.
The 8 meetings within
First Draft will be held each Wednesday, during 19 October – 7 December 2016, from 19.00 to 21.00, at the headquarters of Control N Cultural Association, 10 Transilvaniei Street. The admission fee amounts to RON 1,000 and RON 800 for pupils and students.
Registration to First Draft is made at e-mail address
info@controln.ro.
Details at:
www.controln.ro //
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