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Talent Campus is BACK!

Do you want to participate in a coach and mentor led intensive and immersive screenwriting course for six weeks?
Welcome to the Scree

Talent Campus is BACK!

Do you want to participate in a coach and mentor led intensive and immersive screenwriting course for six weeks?
Welcome to the Screenwriters’ Talent Campus: Total Immersion…

https://thetalentcampus.com/

Dramatically elevating YOUR creative talent, professional development, career advancement and the expertise in the practical business of screenwriting…

It’s five days, then six weeks, then two days, and it will change everything for you. Promise.

THE 2024 TALENT CAMPUS 8.0 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN
DEADLINE 31st August 2024

Our Goals For You
We want you to get your work produced. To that end we have four clear objectives at the Talent Campus.

1. To improve your professional and industry skills to help platform you as
talent to watch.
2. To refine your story and writing skills in the context of a commercial
marketplace.
3. To realign your project with commercial trends to increase the probability of
getting optioned and produced.
4. To provide exclusive opportunity To pitch your project to industry directly.

Talent Campus 8.0 Dates:
• Application Deadline: 31st August 2024
• Talent Campus Ignition (phase 1): Wednesday 27th November – Sunday 1st
December 2024
• Talent Campus Momentum (phase 2): Monday 2nd December 2024 –
Thursday 9th January 2025
• Talent Campus Crucible (phase 3): Friday 10th January – Saturday 11th
January 2025
• Location: Ealing Studios, London W5 5EP

*NOTE: Dates may change due to speaker availability and venues. Once applicants are selected, the dates will be fixed.

Your Outcomes
• Improved knowledge and appreciation of the business of screenwriting.
• Significantly ‘greater confidence’ in the room.
• Developed ideas and projects (building on your new business acumen),
increasing the likelihood of getting produced.
• Improved confidence, relationship and pitching skills for screenwriters.
• Improved screenwriting skills.
• Developed skills in pitching, and projects ready to be pitched to execs in the
real world.
• New and outstanding peer groups that will continue beyond the Talent
Campus.

The Talent Campus will take writers who want to work on commercial screenplays and provide an immersive, challenging and powerful experience.

How to Apply: Application Deadline: 31st August 2024

https://thetalentcampus.com/

Talent Campus 8.0 is by application only. Application does not mean you will be offered a place, nor does it obligate you to attend. If you are offered a place we will get in touch to discuss your plans and outcomes.
As the application requires answers to several questions (as well as an uploading of supporting documents), we advise you to look through the application thoroughly before the deadline.

You will need ready for upload
• First 10 pages of a feature film or TV script (this does not have to be from a
finished script) (doc, docx, pdf only)
• One page synopsis from the same feature film or TV script (doc, docx, pdf
only)
• 400 words on why you need to join the Talent Campus (doc, docx, pdf only)

https://thetalentcampus.com/

Feedback from past Talent Campus Delegates:

‘Talent Campus showed me how to not just be another writer, but BE a writer! The speakers were amazing, how Talent Campus got them is beyond me’.
- Luke Graves – Screenwriter & Filmmaker // 500 Stars (out of 5)

‘I came to the Talent Campus a fearful, nervous Screenwriter and came out a fearless warrior!’
- Maurice C Kenney – Screenwriter // 5 Stars

‘I was floored by how approachable and genuinely helpful all the guest speakers were’.
- Barbara Skubic – Screenwriter // 5 Stars

Looking to network with like minded filmmakers or learn about film festival strategies? Then this is the ultimate event for you!

Film Festival Masterclass (1

Looking to network with like minded filmmakers or learn about film festival strategies? Then this is the ultimate event for you!

Film Festival Masterclass (16:00-18:00)
Over the last 6 years we've interviewed producers, festival directors and programmers to find out what's important and exactly works when it comes to your film festival strategies. We're going to demystify the process and reveal all the strategies, tips and tricks to help you get the most out of your festival run!
This Masterclass will teach you:
1. How to find and pick the right festival for your specific films to save you money on admission fees and increase your admission rates.
2. What festival programmers are looking for in 2024 and how you can make your film stand out from the crowd
3. How to get your film seen by actual decision makers and senior festival programmers
4. How you can get the most of our your festival run including getting sales and distribution deals even if your film doesn't get into your top festivals!

NETWORKING (18:00 - 22:00)
Come along to meet and network with like-minded filmmakers, actors, film financiers and indie-film marketing specialists. Whether you’re on the hunt for cast and crew, new projects, or are looking to explore your financing and marketing options, this is the perfect time and place to discuss all your current and future projects with some great company and a drink in your hand.

SPIN THE CINE CIRCLE LUCKY WHEEL
Every attendee will get one spin of the Cine Circle lucky wheel for a chance to win a variety of prizes including a free drink on the night, Cine Circle PRO Premium and Platinum subscriptions and more!

One-day course on creating and managing dramatic conflict in a feature film. Whether you are a writer, director, producer or script editor, this programme offe

One-day course on creating and managing dramatic conflict in a feature film. Whether you are a writer, director, producer or script editor, this programme offers you practical new tools to understand story structure and sustain the tension from the first sequence to the last.

The most frequently asked question in the development process is ‘what’s at stake?’.

This one-day workshop offers a concentrated examination of how to maximise the stakes across every element of your screenplay. Even if your story is not literally a matter of life and death, learning how to frame your characters’ stakes as critical is the foundation to shaping a story that audiences can emotionally invest in.

We will explore how to elevate the stakes within your premise, interrogate the dramatic tension within your scenes and sequences, and sharpen the motivations of your characters.

Workshop Content

1. A Reason to Watch

This session will examine how to identify the most compelling stakes within a film idea and ensure that the story you develop lives up to the full potential within the premise. Does the conflict demand an urgent response? Is the character grappling with a challenge or dilemma that is universal to the human experience? Is the story dealing with an age-old conflict but in a fascinating new world? Or shedding light on a familiar story in an original way?

2. And Reasons To Keep Watching

Is your protagonist’s problem hard enough to solve that it genuinely takes ninety minutes of screen time for them to do so? This session explores how you ensure that your character’s predicament is embedded with enough layers of conflict to sustain tension, deliver satisfying turning points, and keep the audience hooked for the length of a feature film.

3. The Dramatic Question

The single most important ‘key’ to unlocking your story structure is knowing what dramatic question is driving your narrative. What precisely are we watching to find out? This session illustrates how to organize your story around a clear dramatic question: how to pose it at the end of your first act, restate it throughout, and finally answer it with an ending that has real impact and meaning.

3 X PRACTICAL WEEKEND WORKSHOPS - bookable individually or on special offer if you book all three.

#1 THE WRITERS' ROOM EXPERIENCE - July 27 & 28
Join

3 X PRACTICAL WEEKEND WORKSHOPS - bookable individually or on special offer if you book all three.

#1 THE WRITERS' ROOM EXPERIENCE - July 27 & 28
Join a group of aspiring creative screenwriters in a simulated TV writers' room, run by writer/show-runner Anji Loman Field.

#2 THE COMEDY WRITING MASTERCLASS - August 10 & 11
Unlock the secrets of successful comedy with acclaimed writer and producer Paul Bassett Davies and learn how to make your material funny in any format or medium.

#3 CREATE YOUR OWN TV DRAMA SERIES - August 17 & 18
Get personalised feedback, guidance and support in the planning and development of your TV drama project from writer/show-runner Anji Loman Field.

Are you looking to learn how to fund your next film?

Then the Global Film Funding Conference is the event for you! This 3 day event will be packed with semin

Are you looking to learn how to fund your next film?

Then the Global Film Funding Conference is the event for you! This 3 day event will be packed with seminars, talks, panel discussions and networking. whether you're based in the US, UK or any other country you can expect to leave the event with a huge amount of insight into how the film industry works, what different paths you can take and which funding strategy might be best suited for your particular project. Take a look at the line-up of some of our hyper-focused talks below!

Times of talks:

5-10pm BST | 12 pm - 5pm ET | 9am-2pm PT

During the sessions, the discussions will delve into specific topics such as:

✅ What makes films fundable?
We'll start off by discussing what make some films more "fundable" or easier to market than others. We'll look at the part that casting, crew, genre and story play in getting a film funded.

✅ Finding Private Investors
Have you ever wondered how to find and approach private investors? And once you find one what are they actually looking for? What can you expect when you manage to book in a pitch session with an investor and how should you prepare? At what stage should you even start to look for one? We'll cover all of this in a hyper-focused session on finding and securing private investment for film.

✅ International Film Funds
We'll run through a variety of film funds that exist for short and feature films and how to apply to maximise your chances of success.

✅ Large Scale Crowdfunding
W e'll speak to producers who have successfully raised money through large scale crowdfunding campaigns. We'll explain why most filmmakers can't raise more than 5k and how you can make sure that your campaign is successful.

✅ Tax Credits & Rebates
In this section we'll discuss how tax incentives work in various different countries, how to apply for them and what the requirements are. We'll also discuss international tax credits and how they work.

As all shooters know, short films are an essential building block in your film-making career. This is increasingly true for screenwriters as well as writer/dire

As all shooters know, short films are an essential building block in your film-making career. This is increasingly true for screenwriters as well as writer/directors.

A tantalising dive into another world. An intimate revelation of human truth. A seductive tale with a twist. The best short films leave an imprint far beyond their final frame and are often more powerfully resonant because of their brevity.

Having worked extensively developing shorts in recent years, we found that many writers approach the design of their short films by adapting feature film principles rather than working from an understanding of how the short dramatic narrative works as its own form. (To be honest, for a long time it was how we worked too!)

This one day workshop gives the short film form the proper attention it deserves. The teaching programme will illuminate both the unique challenges and exciting possibilities of the short narrative screenplay. We will inject confidence into your understanding of dramatic conflict and story structure and empower you to hone and develop your screenwriting skills for this exciting medium.

WORKSHOP CONTENT
The Dramatic Concept - We will explore what makes a strong story idea for a short and tackle the challenge of creating a simple but satisfying dramatic conflict. We will give you the development tools to examine and shape your core story choices so that your film delivers the most compelling characters and meaningful stakes.

Story Structure – With less time to set up your story world we’ll look at how to dive right in from your opening image and we’ll rethink the three-act structure for the short. We’ll think about how to seed and plot the turning points that will propel your story to its climax and examine the most effective use of ‘twists’ at the end of the film.

Character Journeys - Whether your character is faced with saving the planet or mending a friendship we will consider the range of character arcs a short film can effectively explore, unpicking how to convincingly chart that change through such a fleeting encounter. We’ll also give special attention to stories which champion protagonists who don’t change and we’ll consider the intended (and sometimes unintended) meanings that your character choices will deliver.

The course is taught by The Script Factory’s Charlotte Macleod and Justine Hart. Charlotte previously served on the BAFTA Short Film Jury for five years. Justine is currently script consultant to the Pitch Short Film Fund.

WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?
This course is for anyone who wants to invest in their understanding of how to write a short film and we welcome writers, directors, script editors and producers. These workshops have been attended by filmmakers with award-winning films under their belt as well as those just starting out.

COURSE PREPARATION
There will be some preparatory viewing recommended before the programme starts to ensure that everyone has shared examples of successful short films. The sessions are designed to be fully interactive, including creative group exercises and discussions to ensure that all your questions are answered.

WHERE AND WHEN WILL THE COURSE TAKE PLACE?
This one-day workshop will take place at Pushkin House, Bloomsbury Square on Saturday 21 September 2024.

The teaching will run from 11 – 5 with a 45-minute lunch break. There will also be the option of heading to the pub afterwards to maximise the opportunity of meeting your fellow filmmakers.

WHAT DOES THE COURSE COST?
Attendance on the course costs £115.