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Dec4
Advisor Studio
10:00AM - 11:00AM (PST)
Advisor Studio: Mastering Film Festival Q&As and Audience Engagement
With: Leonard Cortana and Katherine Street
Advisor Studio: Mastering Film Festival Q&As and Audience Engagement
December 4, 2025
10:00AM - 11:00AM (PST)
10:00AM - 11:00AM (PST)
With: Leonard Cortana and Katherine Street
Dec12
Live Online Event
12:00PM - 1:30PM (PST)
Inside the Edit with BIPOC Doc Editors: CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS
With: Mohammadreza Eyni and 2 more
Inside the Edit with BIPOC Doc Editors: CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS
December 5, 2025
12:00PM - 1:30PM (PST)
12:00PM - 1:30PM (PST)
With: Mohammadreza Eyni, Sara Khaki and Soheil Rezayazdi
Dec9
Insider Session
10:00AM - 11:00AM (PST)
Insider Session: Applying to the Sundance Institute Producers Track Programs
With: Kristin Feeley and 4 more
Insider Session: Applying to the Sundance Institute Producers Track Programs
December 2, 2025
10:00AM - 11:00AM (PST)
10:00AM - 11:00AM (PST)
With: Kristin Feeley, Shira Rockowitz, Maria Caridad Clement, Andrea Alarcón and Katherine Street
TV Writing: From Outline to First Draft of Your Pilot
Intermediate
Instructor: Angela LaManna
You’ve got a great idea for a TV series and you have fleshed out an outline for your pilot. Now, it’s time to start writing that script that grabs your reader’s attention - whether it’s an agent, an executive, or a showrunner. In this course you will move from outline to completing a draft of your original pilot (under 60 pages).
Scripting and Pitching Your Documentary
Beginner to Intermediate
With: Mark Monroe and Xan Aranda
In this four-week course, Mark Monroe reveals the strategic art of shaping hundreds of hours of raw footage into compelling cinema. This course builds upon a previous Sundance Collab Master Class and features exclusive insights and conversations with established documentary storytellers Morgan Neville (Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Piece By Piece), Geeta Gandbhir (The Perfect Neighbor), and Kavery Kaul (The Bengali).
Dec4
Advisor Studio
10:00AM - 11:00AM (PST)
Advisor Studio: Mastering Film Festival Q&As and Audience Engagement
With: Leonard Cortana and Katherine Street
Advisor Studio: Mastering Film Festival Q&As and Audience Engagement
December 4, 2025
10:00AM - 11:00AM (PST)
10:00AM - 11:00AM (PST)
With: Leonard Cortana and Katherine Street
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Screenwriting: From Idea to Screenplay
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Includes 2 courses:
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- Screenwriting: From Outline to First Draft of Your Screenplay
You’ve got a great idea for a movie. Now, it’s time to start writing that script. In this sequence of courses, you will learn a set of tools and go from idea to outline to completing a first draft of your original screenplay (<120 pages).
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TV Writing: From Idea to Pilot
Includes 2 courses: TV Writing: Core Elements, TV Writing: From Outline to First Draft of Your Pilot
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Includes 2 courses:
- TV Writing: Core Elements
- TV Writing: From Outline to First Draft of Your Pilot
You’ve got a great idea for a TV series. Now, it’s time to start writing. In this sequence of courses, you will learn a set of tools and go from idea to outline to completing a first draft of your original pilot (<60 pages).
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