Master Class: Screenwriting with Meg LeFauve (INSIDE OUT, CAPTAIN MARVEL)
About this Master Class
Master Classes are in-depth, interactive learning experiences focused on craft and career building and led by renowned industry experts. Topics include fiction and documentary filmmaking, TV writing and production, and navigating and succeeding in the entertainment industry.
This is an edited version of Meg LeFauve's original 3-hour Master Class, and the price for this Master Class reflects the length. We hope the valuable information that remains included can help artists on their screenwriting journey.
This Master Class with Meg LeFauve, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, will focus on the key elements of creating complex characters and building a compelling story and world. LeFauve will share what she's learned from 20 years in the business, both as a producer who developed live action scripts and as a writer. In this session, she will explore how a character's belief systems help define theme, arc, and plot movement.
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Meg LeFauve
Instructor
Nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar for the Pixar blockbuster Inside Out, Meg LeFauve won an Annie Award for that screenplay. She also wrote Pixar’s Golden Globe nominated The Good Dinosaur. LeFauve is currently writing a series for Hulu and for Netflix she is writing the animated film My Father’s Dragon, to be created by Cartoon Saloon. She also wrote on Marvel’s upcoming Captain Marvel.
LeFauve began her film career as a producer and President of Egg Pictures, Jodie Foster's film company. During that time, LeFauve produced films which were nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and was awarded a Peabody for the Showtime film, The Baby Dance. LeFauve also produced The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys which won the 2003 IFP Spirit Award for Best First Feature.
LeFauve has been a consultant to Screen New South Wales and Screen Australia and has been a mentor at many writing labs, including Cinestory Script Sessions, the Meryl Streep lab, and the Sundance Creative Producer Lab. LeFauve has taught at AFI and served as co-chair of the Graduate Producers Program at UCLA's School of Film and Television, where she taught master level story and development classes for over seven years.
Raised in Warren, OH, LeFauve graduated from the Syracuse University Newhouse School and currently lives in Studio City, CA with her husband and two sons.