Veteran Producers share their advice on getting started as a producer and staying in the game
Effie Brown
Producer
Learn how to give shape and form to the outline/treatment you created in Screenwriting Level 1 with an experienced screenwriter as your guide. During this eight-week, Level 2 course, you will continue to develop your outline and create a working draft of the first act of your screenplay. Sessions include presentations, interactive exercises, discussions of your works-in-progress, and a one-on-one mentoring session focused on your project. Eligibility Requirement: Completion of Sundance Co//ab Screenwriting Level 1 course or completion of at least one feature screenplay as the writer.
Amy Fox
Instructor
Learn how to give shape and form to the work you started in TV Writing Level 1 with an experienced TV writer as your guide. During this eight-week, Level 2 course, you will work on developing your idea into a pilot and series outline. Sessions include presentations/discussions, interactive exercises, a case study with a renowned Advisor from the Sundance network, and a one-on-one mentoring session focused on your project. Eligibility Requirement: Completion of Sundance Co//ab TV Writing Level 1 course or completion of at least one pilot script as the writer.
Semi Chellas
Lead Instructor
Crafting an ending that's both inevitable and surprising is very challenging. Select a feature film (well known, if possible) that ended in an unsatisfying way and rewrite the final scene. Sponsored by Final Draft
Fixed Births is a scene introducing one of the three main characters and the world of a dystopian feature film I am currently working on. Initially, this scene is from a series of dystopian science fiction short stories I wrote.
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A Los Angeles native, John Lopez has covered film and the arts for Grantland, Vanity Fair online and Bloomberg Business Week. His short Plan B, starring Randall Park and Rosa Salazar, was a finalist in the NBC Short Cuts Film festival.
Our Sundance Co//ab Advisor is here to give you feedback on your work in progress in Share Your Work and answer your questions in Advisor Q&A. Check out the artist's full biography and recommended resources.
Nov
Jim Cummings
John Lopez
Advisor
Dec
Jackie Miller
multi-platform storytelling • immersive worldbuilding • experience design