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

Reel Sisters & BRIC present

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

Mon. & Wed., June 16, 2025-July 2, 2025, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm

Location: BRIC, Media Lab, 647 Fulton Street

Sessions: Mondays & Wed., 6/16/25, 6/18/25, 6/23/25, 6/25/25, 6/30/25 & 7/2/25.

This is a hybrid workshop — writers can join in person or virtually!

Registration Fee: $225 (plus Eventbrite fees).

THIS WORKSHOP SELLS OUT QUICKLY, REGISTER ASAP!

Award-winning writer/director Jennica Carmona will lead our master scriptwriting workshop that will cover the essentials of writing scripts for TV, Film and Digital Media. The six-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. You will learn how to create strong and richly layered women characters as well as the nuts and bolts of writing scripts. Enjoy a nurturing and open creative environment where you will have a chance to 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 or major television and film studios.

If you are a new writer, please take our prerequisite workshop . You must have a basic knowledge of scriptwriting to take our Master Scriptwriting Class.

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.

Reel Sisters will be held on October 25-26, 2025. For more information visit www.reelsisters.org

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

JENNICA CARMONA

Her first feature film, Millie and the Lords, won several awards on the film festival circuit and was sold to HBO/Cinemax shortly after its release. The film, which was inspired by the revolutionary Puerto Rican civil rights group, The Young Lords, has been screened at numerous colleges and universities throughout the country. In 2021, Jennica was commissioned by the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival to create a short documentary film, “Fuerza Y Poder”, with young Latino students in the South Philadelphia area. The film explored how the power of community helped them to overcome challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic. Most recently, Jennica wrote and directed a short film, “The Fellowship”, with the senior students at Pace University, which explored issues of race, class, and privilege in an elitist private college.

Jennica has worked as a Film and Theater Educator for many years for various organizations, including Montclair Film, the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, Fleisher Art Memorial, Big Picture Alliance, and more. She has also worked as a Programmer for film festivals such as Reel Sisters Film Festival and the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival. Jennica currently works as the Documentary Programmer for the Atlanta Film Festival, and as an Associate Professor in the Film Department at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is an active member of FILM FATALES, a national non-profit organization dedicated to creating equity for women in the filmmaking industry. 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 social justice themes. Info: www.sisepuedeproductions.org.

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