Got a great idea for a movie or TV show? Anyone ever tell you that your book should be on the big screen? Maybe your latest great idea features characters in a world that feels like it belongs to a TV series? Join award-winning screenwriter, producer, and story consultant Kat O’Brien in this weekend workshop to demystify the process of adapting, pitching, and producing your writing for film and television.  

This workshop will be an opportunity for writers of all genres and levels of experience to refine pitch materials for an existing project, and/or generate new pitches through guided exercises and prompts. We’ll identify the qualities that make story ideas viable for film and television and explore how to position your work strategically for the most suitable platform. 

Each day will combine lecture, discussion, time to write, and workshops delivering writer-centered feedback and first impressions on writing produced during the weekend. Our first day will provide you with an opportunity to answer your burning questions and take home a toolkit to refine your (new or existing) pitch overnight to present and workshop the next day.  

Writers will leave class with a creative, strategic, and tactical understanding of how to pitch movies and television like a Hollywood insider. Our workshop will leverage pitching as a tool for more robust story development, and help writers understand how various pitch techniques can attract producers, financing, and/or collaborators to help them make their silver screen dreams a reality. 

Whether you’re new to screenwriting and producing or looking to refine your pitching technique for all formats and platforms, this weekend intensive will offer a dynamic, supportive, structured environment to help you realize your ideas from pitch to screen.  

Takeaways: 

In this workshop, we will generate new writing through guided exercises and prompts; offer feedback/first impressions on writing you produce in our weekend; workshop writing you bring from home.