Directors & Actors Intensive Lab

Starting Tues 5th April until Thurs 12th May

Directors and Actors Intensive Lab

Aimed at directors and actors working together. This course explores directing and acting drama and comedy with specific regard to working together to deliver the best performance to tell the story. This class meets twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays for three hours over April and May.

CALLING ALL WRITERS AND EMERGING WRITERS

Shiva Productions accepting play submissions

Following three successful seasons of Angels in the Park in parks and green areas around Dublin, Ireland, London and Paris, Shiva Productions will present a brand new season of five new Irish plays in summer 2016.

Filmbase Members’ Discount for Robert McKee ‘Story’ Seminar

5th – 8th November, Kilarney

€711 Filmbase Members / €790 Full Price

Get those pens at the ready and open up Final Draft, because writing guru Robert McKee, one of the most popular writing lecturers in the world, will deliver his acclaimed ‘Story’ Seminar at The Learning Resort in Killarney from November 5th to 8th, 2015. This is a prime opportunity for film and television businesses to access one of Hollywood’s great teachers, and best of all? Filmbase members get 10% off the full ticket price.

Screen Studio Academy: Writers Intensive Lab

January 2016, Dates: TBC, Tues & Thurs
€380 Members / €420 Non-Members

The Screen Studio Academy Writers Intensive Lab is designed to develop techniques for writing and rewriting drama for the screen and with the goal of achieving a professional level of screenplays.

Advice from a Writer – Ciaran Creagh

Ciaran Creagh (Parked) on the learning curve he faced moving from writing for the stage to film.

Quentin Tarantino once said that ‘if I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn’t be writing screenplays. I’d be writing novels.’ These words do hold some resonance for me because I have always been somewhat uneasy with the label ‘writer’.

5 Tips for Aspiring Screenwriters

Story analyst and script editor Patrick O’Driscoll lays out his 5 tips for aspiring screenwriters.

The industry is a severely competitive environment in which to survive, let alone succeed. Over half of the material I receive in my work as a script reader and story consultant for funding bodies, production companies and independents is written by amateur screenwriters. These are not necessarily tips you ought to follow to the letter but rather advice you should be made aware of as you begin your journey…