SCREENING award winning short

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Screening (Dystopian Slice of Life): Riz Ahmed and Aneil Karia’s super contained 2022 Oscar winning contained short, THE LONG GOODBYE (12m).

AC breakdowns down THE LONG GOODBYE’S beats, identifying the central question that gets answered or not by the end.

Exercise: Is your central question big enough that we want to know the answer? Let’s do a health check on your beats.

WRITING EXERCISES

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Last day of in-class exercises!

Read Aloud: each cohort will read aloud your revised beats, with attention to a central question that gets answered by the end of the short, then gets notes from the team.

MENTOR DISCUSSION/ Q&A

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

World-renowned screenwriter, Sabrina Dhawan (NYU Screenwriting Professor, MONSOON WEDDING writer, WGAE Women’s Salon) will discuss how her 2000 short, AS NIGHT FALLS, led to 2001 feature script, MONSOON WEDDING, directed by Mira Nair.

Moderated by a Screenwriting Sprint Team member, followed by a brief Q&A.

TBD INdustry panel

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM