Master Class on Writing Strong Female Characters for Film & TV™

Reel Sisters & BRIC present

Master Class on Writing Strong Female Characters for TV, Film & Streaming

Mon. & Wed., May 11, 2026-June 10, 2026, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm

Location: BRIC, Media Lab, 647 Fulton Street & Online.

8 Sessions: Mondays & Wed., 5/11/26, 5/13/26, 5/20/26 (virtual), 5/27/26, 6/1/26 (virtual), 6/3/26 (virtual),6/8/26, 6/10/26

No class: 5/25/26 (Holiday)

This is a hybrid workshop — writers can join in person or virtually! There are three virtual only sessions.

Registration Fee: $250 plus Universe fees ($225 before 4/30/26, Code: SCRIPT2026)

THIS WORKSHOP SELLS OUT QUICKLY, REGISTER ASAP!

Award-winning writer/director Jennica Carmona will lead our master scriptwriting workshop that support your goals in writing scripts for TV, Film and Digital Media. The eight-session workshop is for writers wishing to create new work or revising a work-in-progress. The class will focus on giving you a strong foundation in story and character development. Learn how to create strong and richly layered women characters as well as the nuts and bolts of writing scripts. Write the first draft of your script or develop a work-in-progress. Polish log lines and beat sheets that will help you pitch your project to HBO, Disney, NETFLIX or major television and film studios.

You must have a basic knowledge of scriptwriting to take our Master Scriptwriting Class.

We added two extra sessions to our popular Master Scriptwriting Class to give you more time to revise your work in progress or develop your new script. The workshop is being presented by Reel Sisters, the first Oscar Qualifying Festival for short narratives devoted to women filmmakers, and BRIC, the leading presenter of free cultural programming in Brooklyn, and one of the largest in New York City. BRIC presents and incubates new work by artists and media-makers who reflect the diversity that surrounds us.

INSTRUCTOR

Jennica Carmona is a New York City based Puerto Rican film maker, actor, and activist.

Born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico and raised in Rochester, NY she is a graduate of the

Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She is a proud co-founder of Si Se Puede Productions,

a theatre and film production company that creates material with a social justice theme.

From 2008-2009, Jennica worked with director Lee Daniels on the Academy Award

winning film, Precious, where she gained hands on experience with filmmaking and

production. She later went on to write, direct, and produce her first feature film, Millie

and the Lords. The film was the recipient of several film festival awards and it was sold

to HBO/Cinemax shortly after its release.

Jennica is currently in post production of her new short film, The Corito Project, which

she developed and worked on as part of the 2024 Third World Newsreel Program. She

also has a feature film in development titled “The Fellowship”, which is a narrative film

that explores issues of class, privilege, and race in an elite private college.

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