Scriptwriting Essentials : The Art of Writing Strong Female Characters ™

Reel Sisters & BRIC present

HYBRID: Scriptwriting Essentials & The Art of Writing Strong Female Characters™ - Summer Session

Tues. & Thurs - April 15-May 8, 2025

TIME: 6 pm-8 pm ET/3 pm-5 pm PT

DATES: 4/15/25, 4/17/25, 4/22/25, 4/29/25 (Zoom), 5/1/25 (Zoom) and 5/8/25.

Registration Fee: $225 (plus Eventbrite fees)

Instructor: Rachel Ingram.

WORKSHOP SELLS OUT QUICKLY, REGISTER ASAP!

T his is a hybrid workshop, online writers are welcomed to participate via Zoom.

Enjoy a beginning scriptwriting workshop that will cover the essentials of writing scripts for TV, Film and Web Series. Realize your vision of having your script turned into a film, television series or a digital media series. Create a character driven script for your audience. Our professional instructors have successfully guided writers in developing scripts for film and television.

Scriptwriting Essentials will offer tips on pitching your script to such major content platforms as OWN, Netflix, Lifetime and HBO. You will learn how to write strong and richly layered women characters as well as the nuts and bolts of writing scripts that sell. Enjoy a nurturing and open creative environment where you will have a chance to write your first script or develop a work-in-progress.

Some sessions will be held virtually. Please let us know if you are joining us exclusively via Zoom. Everyone in our workshop will have access to joining us online and will be sent the information shortly before the class begins. You will also be given access to a folder with your first reading assignment and the syllabus.

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. Scriptwriting Essentials is a Trademark of Reel Sisters, the nation's leading film festival devoted to women of color. Reel Sisters will be held on Oct.25-26, 2025 in Brooklyn. African Voices, an arts organization founded in 1992, sponsors Reel Sisters.

BRIC presents and incubates new work by artists and media-makers who reflect the diversity that surrounds us.

African Voices thanks the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council and private funders for supporting Scriptwriting Essentials.

INSTRUCTOR

Rachel Ingram is a New York-bred and based storyteller. She has worked extensively in the New York theatre scene as a performer and director at the Lark, the Tank, the Flea and New York Theatre Workshop. She got her start as a screenwriter on Apple TV and A24's series Sunny as a writers' assistant. She has most recently served as screenwriter and co-executive producer of a trilogy of films based on music by Mary J Blige produced by Blue Butterfly Productions and Davis Entertainment airing on Lifetime. The question, "what is our responsibility to each other?" keeps her up at night and is the connective tissue between her art and life. She is repped by IAG.

Host or Publisher African Voices Magazine