From Fiction to Hollywood
Admission
- $55.00 - Supporting Tuition
- $35.00 - Helping Hands
- $15.00 - Helping Hands Extended
Description
Are you working on a screenplay or want to get started on one? Are you an author who wants to learn to adapt your books to film? Whether you’re a screenwriter, a novelist, or a producer, there has never been a more exciting time to try to get your foot in the door in television and film. But it all begins on the page – with a terrific screenplay or teleplay.
Authors and screenwriters Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due discuss the journey of turning fiction into film. Learn the form and language of screenwriting, the biggest mistakes new screenwriters make, the basics of constructing compelling stories, characters, and dialogue breaking into Hollywood, and the importance of spec scripts, networking, establishing IP, giving great meetings, and the basics of the writer’s room.
About the Instructors:
Tananarive Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award and a British Fantasy Award. She teaches Afrofuturism at UCLA. Steven Barnes has won an NAACP Image Award and an Endeavor Award for his alternate history, Lion’s Blood.
This event will be held in Zoom. By registering for this class, you agree to follow the Clarion West Code of Conduct and Zoom policies.
Sliding Scale Pricing:
Community classes are offered at low cost and with additional sliding scale options to enable access to high-quality writing instruction, regardless of your economic circumstance. Please choose the ticketing price that best supports your circumstances.
Limited Free Seating:
We offer a percentage of seats in every class to People of the Global Majority (Asian, Black, African, Latina/o/x, Middle Eastern, Indigenous, Pacific Islander, and/or have been racialized as 'ethnic minorities') for free, regardless of financial need.
Eligible folks should complete this form to enter the lottery for free seats. If a seat is available, we will email you 7-10 days before the class begins. For more information, see our equity and inclusion policies.
Our Refund Policy:
Clarion West will refund all class fees if the request is made 30 days before the class date. Refund requests made within 30 days of the class will be honored if we can fill the seat. Any exceptions are subject to approval by our workshop staff.