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Screenwriting Basics with Colette Freedman

Novelists, playwrights and poets: Learn the basics of screenwriting in order to write your first (or fifth) short film. Over the course of the next six weeks, we'll dive into the structure, dialogue and character of film, enabling you to create your own visual storytelling.

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Screenwriting Basics with Colette Freedman

Screenwriting Basics with Colette Freedman

Novelists, playwrights and poets: Learn the basics of screenwriting in order to write your first (or fifth) short film. Over the course of the next six weeks, we'll dive into the structure, dialogue and character of film, enabling you to create your own visual storytelling.

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Novelists, playwrights, and poets: Learn the basics of screenwriting in order to write your first (or fifth) short film. Over the course of the six weeks, we'll dive into the structure, dialogue, and character of film, enabling you to create your own visual storytelling in this online course with an accomplished author. 

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Ages 14 and up are welcome.

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Colette Freedman

Colette Freedman is a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. Her plays and musicals have been performed all over the world, including "Serial Killer Barbie" and "Sister Cities." She just returned from Carnegie Hall where she was the dramaturg for the musical "Mozart: Her Story." Colette has produced a number of films and written several indie gems including "And Then There Was Eve," which won The Los Angeles Film Festival. She co-produced "Quality Problems," which has won several awards on the festival circuit. She is in post-production for her coming-of-age film "Miles Underwater." Her Amelia Earhart film "7,000 Miles," starring Wendie Malick, is currently on the festival circuit. She is a faculty member at New York Film Academy, Antioch University, and Studio Arts where she teaches screenwriting, playwriting, and novel writing. www.colettefreedman.com, (@colettefreedman)

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