(Summer24) Writing: Short Screenplay & Creative DNA Workshop

Short Screenplay & Creative DNA Workshop with Natasha Maidoff
Dates: Tuesday - Thursday, July 16 - 18
Time: 3:30 - 5:00PM
Location: Art Barn Library
​Fee: $225 for 3 day workshop

In this three-day workshop, each participant will write a short screenplay (3 -5 pages) using the process of ideation - a series of creative exercises designed to help you locate and identify your creative DNA. Ideation helps to pinpoint your original voice, aesthetic, and personal image system. Participants will learn to build stories by using striking images and character rants to deepen the work. You will also learn basic structure and the standard rules of screenplay formatting. These skills can be applied to writing long-form screenplays such as features and pilots. We will aim to create short screenplays for films that you can make, drawing on locations available to you.  

Natasha Maidoff’s work is held in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and in the Brooklyn Museum. Her award-winning films have toured internationally, including screenings at the Guggenheim and Pecci Museums. She has received artist residencies to the Yaddo, Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A long-time resident of Venice, California. Maidoff currently teaches screenwriting and directing at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.  She also runs a practice as a Creative Coach. Maidoff believes that visual storytelling is a way to transform insight and contemplation into a meaningful and abstracted dialogue about life.