SCREENING & LECTURE

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Screening Oscar Winning (SCI-FI COMEDY) I AM NOT A ROBOT 22m, on the higher end of contained, with one stunt, but it takes place in one office building.

AC gives a beat breakdown of I AM NOT A ROBOT, followed by a brief lecture on Genre: picking a pony vs the mash-up!

MENTOR DISCUSSION & Q&A

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Mentor: Sasha Stewart, staff writer on DYING FOR SEX will discuss the trajectory of her TV writing career that brought her to the stage at the 2026 Writers Guild Awards.

Followed by a brief Q&A moderated by a Screenwriting Sprint team member.

Lecture & WRITING EXERCISES

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Lecture on hyper specificity of genre, topic, and more structure.

In Class Exercises: With notes from the lecture, try to elevate your project’s specificity of genre and topic.

Read Aloud: several cohort will read their exercise and get notes from team.

Industry panel

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

TBD