Write It Right: The Screenwriting Summer School

This course treats writing as part of a living filmmaking culture. You will test ideas aloud, hear your scenes come alive as they are performed, discuss and refine them through encounter. Peer discussion forms the spine of the week, with writers immersed in the craft through pitching, writing, reading and responding to each other’s work in a spirit that prizes candour and technique. Alongside this shared effort, you will meet

• producers who illuminate how scripts travel through development, production and beyond;
• actors and a director who bring industry perspectives into the room.
• Actor-led readthroughs expose the rhythms, tensions and blind spots of your scenes.

Teaching combines dynamic seminars, real-world case studies, collaborative group sessions, pitching workshops and tailored one-to-one mentoring. Across the week, you will actively shape your story’s character, genre and structure while developing the confidence to articulate your ideas with clarity and conviction.

The atmosphere is both supportive and rigorously focused — a space that nurtures ambition, values preparation and encourages creative risk-taking. Rather than imposing formulas, the course sharpens your instincts and judgement, helping you understand what your project truly needs and how it is likely to be received within the industry. As relationships form over the week, participants experience a rare depth of immersion: sustained attention instead of shortcuts, shared creative community instead of working alone, and meaningful development in place of box-ticking. By the end of the week, you will leave with

• a developed beat sheet or outline,
• a scripted sample scene that shows your skills and
• a confident verbal pitch, grounded in a clearer sense of next steps.

This course suits writers who want serious engagement with their work and with others seeking to get a new project industry ready, as well as writers with experience from other creative writing formats. If you seek a space where your script meets likeminded filmmakers and conversation sharpens your craft, this summer school makes a compelling home.