Screenwriting Workshop with -Daniel Anaya (USA), SAG, Hollywood Veteran.

What can you expect?

A month long workshop in screenwriting practice. This course is designed to culminate in a polish draft of a short screenplay, suitable for production. The course is also designed to mimic the real world development process writers experience in a professional context.

What will you learn?

Writers will begin by ‘Pitching’ their ideas and an individual idea per student will be selected to be the focus of the course. You will be coached extensively and personally on ‘How to Pitch’. The screenplays will then proceed through several specific stages; Treatment, Outline, First Draft and at least one Polish Draft.

The class will also form ‘Writer’s Rooms’ to recreate an interactive experience of a real world studio setting. As a mentor, Daniel will provide extensive notes and feedback at every stage of the process.

Topics to be covered:

Pitching, Plot and Structure, Character, Theme, and Rewriting.

On the first day of the course come prepared with three film ideas to pitch.

About Daniel Anaya

Daniel has crewed on feature films such as Robocop,Titanic, Armageddon and Daredevil. He has also worked on hit television shows like Profiler, The Practice and Alias. In 2005 he was selected for the prestigious Disney/ABC Writing Fellowship. He is a member of IATSE Local 80 and the Screen Actor's Guild. Daniel has been a film making mentor at the International Academy of Film and Television, Shanghai Film Arts Academy and is now at Film Media Arts in Cebu.