The Course
🎯 WHO IS IT FOR ✦ Aspiring screenwriters, novelists, and authors who want to acquire a structured method and professional-level technical tools. ✦ Those with an idea in the pipeline or a stalled project looking for guidance to organize the structure, break down blocks, and complete the writing. ✦ People who want to explore writing as a tool for personal expression, using narrative to process and give value to their experiences and emotions. 📚 COURSE OUTLINE 💡 Module 1: Idea & Concept Development ✦ The Creative Spark: Explore memories, experiences, and personal inspiration to find authentic and original ideas. ✦ From Inspiration to Premise: Define the story's intention, genre, and underlying message. ✦ Synthesis Tools: Learn to distill the story into Logline and Storyline to make it clear and captivating. 🧠 Module 2: Multi-Minded Work & Brainstorming ✦ The "Writers' Room": Experience the richness of creative discussion and authorial dialogue. ✦ Overcoming Dead Ends: Use guided brainstorming to explore alternative and unexpected narrative paths. ✦ Testing the Story: Recognize the project's strengths and weaknesses before beginning in-depth drafting. ✍🏻 Module 3: Rewriting & Revisions ✦ The Art of Editing: Understand that true writing happens in rewriting. ✦ Text Cleanliness and Pacing: Eliminate the superfluous to enhance narrative tension and emotional impact. ✦ Coherence and Verisimilitude: Check character development, structural consistency, and dialogue effectiveness. 📄 Module 4: Industry Standard Formatting ✦ Screenplay Syntax: Mastering the conventions of layout and visual writing (American/standard layout). ✦ Writing with Images: Translating thoughts and emotions into visible actions, implicit direction, and incisive dialogue. ✦ Tools of the Trade: Introduction to screenwriting software and preparing material for submission to competitions, calls for proposals, or production companies. ✨ Module 5: Creative Sessions to Untie Inner Knots ✦ Writing and Empathy: Exploring the emotional universe to unlock creativity and overcome the fear of the blank page. ✦ The Truth of Characters: Drawing on your sensitivity to create three-dimensional, vulnerable, and human figures. ✦ A Safe Environment: A customized listening space where your unique authorial voice can emerge and flourish.
What You'll Learn
- Idea Development
Teachers.
2 guide che accompagnano il percorso
Regia · Sceneggiatura
FabioGilioli
A historian active in researching and promoting museum archives, he combines historical research with in-depth expertise in genre cinema, with a focus on fantasy, horror, and historical narrative.
With a degree in Film Direction and Screenwriting, he combines archival analysis with narrative and visual writing.
He has gained experience on several independent film sets and is active as a screenwriter and author.
He directed the short film The Lord's Final Trend, his debut work that blends folklore and fantasy.
Regia · Sceneggiatura · Produzione · Recitazione
SaraSchiavone
Director, screenwriter, and founder of the production company Caora Film.
Having graduated with a thesis on historical and propaganda cinema, she combines writing and directing with teaching as a screenwriting instructor in secondary schools and private training programs.
She has gained direct experience on the sets of internationally renowned productions, including Giulia Grandinetti's Majonezë (nominated for a David di Donatello Award and shortlisted for the Oscars).
The author of short films and documentaries distributed nationally and internationally—including Little Bird and Twentyseven: Sister Portrait—she is currently working on her feature-length directorial debut, La Diletta da mio padre.
With Caora Film, born from an experience in the Irish landscape and founded on the synergy between cinema and nature, she produces original works and promotes international artistic residencies for emerging authors.