writers‘ workshop
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written largely in his work.”
CIE Writer's Workshop is sponsored by Final Draft, and its main objective is to help young writers improve their scripts through creative discussions with their peers. Usually, we host an in-person monthly workshop focusing on one writer's script. Members of the Writers’ Workshop meet monthly or on a need-to-meet basis to work on their original pitches, screenplays and teleplays. The Writers’ Workshop also organizes Special Sessions such as classic script analysis and exclusive Pitch Sessions that bring multiple writers from the group to visit established producers and/or production companies to pitch projects.
Previously, we hosted the script analysis session with Professor Peter Markham, a creative consultant, teacher, author, and former directing head at the American Film Institute Conservatory. We also hosted Pitch sessions with Janet Yang, a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning producer and governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Lifeng Wang, founder and CEO of Times Films, Inc.
Join the workshop
If you are a screenwriter who has been writing one complete teleplay or screenplay, and interested in a script-writing workshop, please send a sample of your script (movie script or TV series) to writers@lacff.org.
Initiation
A writer would notify us of his or her desire to initiate a workshop as the presenter. If multiple writers indicate interest in calling for a workshop and present their work, then you will be scheduled on a first come, first served basis.
confirmation
The writer calling for a workshop will send his or her workshop materials to us, and after success scheduled, we will invite qualified writers in.
invitation
We will send out an invitation to all writers in the group with the information of the upcoming workshop.
RSVP
Prior to the workshop date, only those who have successfully RSVP’d would receive the workshop material, RSVP confirmation, and parking instructions.
Table Reading
If you are an actor or actress willing to join our table reading, please contact us through writers@lacff.org.
Find a writer or script
If you are a development executive, director, agent or manager and need talented screenwriters and original content, please feel free to contact us at writers@lacff.org.
Special Pitch Session
In the Session, the talent will have the opportunity to pitch their ideas to industry veterans and executives who will provide feedback on each participant’s pitch. If they really like the pitch, anything could happen from there!
Writer’s Workshop First Virtual Pitch Session
“A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies, dramas and comedies that shine a clean light into the dingy corners of the human psyche and society. If not, as Yeats warned, ‘the center cannot hold.’”
