Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Adaptation (2002)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Write a screenplay under the guidance of professional media-makers. Work with fellow aspiring screenwriters to learn the art and craft of screenwriting while telling a story that expresses your ideas in your voice.
Benefit from the hand-on guidance of an experienced screenwriter and teacher, use current techniques, and learn life and job skills through the inspiring and collaborative process of creating a script. Once written, your screenplay won't gather dust on a shelf--it will be produced by the teenagers (perhaps including you) participating in our Summer Filmmaking Workshop.
The Spring Screenwriting Workshop meets Mondays and Wednesdays, March 15 - May 26, 4:00 - 5:30pm at Bryn Mawr Film Institute. (The workshop does not meet on March 27 or March 29.) It is strongly recommended, though not mandatory, that participants have a laptop they can bring to each session. The fee for the workshop is $600. A limited number of scholarships are available for those in need.
The screenplay produced by the workshop will go into production during the 2010 Summer Filmmaking Workshop that will meet at Bryn Mawr Film Institute starting on June 28.
This program is open to high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Space is limited, and an application is required. The deadline is Monday, February 22, though early application is recommended. Download the application below. Please call 610.527.4008 x105 for more information.
Download the application form here.
Download the scholarship application form here.
Applications may be emailed to adouglas@BrynMawrFilm.org or mailed to:
Bryn Mawr Film Institute, PO Box 1058, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010; Attention: SSW
Learn about the Summer Filmmaking Workshop here.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Spring Screenwriting Workshop instructor Dwight Wilkins is a playwright, screenwriter, theater director, filmmaker, and teacher. He teachers filmmaking to the inner city teenagers through The Big Picture Alliance, and playwriting in public schools through Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival. He also taught Drama for a year at Prep Charter High School and has been on the Summer School Faculty at Phillips Exeter Academy. He has directed plays at the Allens Lane Theater, the Brick Playhouse, The Shubin Theater, The CEC, Barnstormers Theater, Freedom Theater, The Harlem Theater Company, and Phillips Exeter Academy. He holds an MFA in Filmmaking and Playwriting from Ohio University.