Faber & Faber

Friday 12th to Sunday 14th November (10am-5pm)

Bloomsbury House
74-77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA

Course cost: £375 (inc. VAT)

This course will address the difficult business of starting to write screenplays.

John Boorman once said, 'Film is the easiest language to understand, and the hardest to speak'. But it's a language which can be learned.

The course will concentrate on the fundamental grammar of film, as well as the instinctive impulse towards self-expression.

Movies tell stories, so before you can begin to understand the craft of screenwriting, you need to understand the structure and the goals of storytelling. So an essential part of the course will concentrate on how a story works and where the ideas for stories come from - and to demonstrate that it is only through working at writing that the stories will begin to flow.

The second part of the course will concentrate on how to employ the techniques of screenwriting to tell the stories you want to tell in your own particular way.

The course will consist of lectures and written exercises.

There will also be a guest appearance by the Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald.

Course includes:

• 3 days intensive tuition, including a guest session from Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald
  
• Complimentary Notebook
• Daily artisan lunch
• Regular coffee breaks
• Handy course pack including local hotel recommendations
• Special discount off Faber books purchased at www.faber.co.uk

About the Tutor

Walter Donohue was an editor in the Film on Four strand in the early years of Channel Four, when the films included Neil Jordan's debut feature, Angel. Subsequently he has worked as a script editor for John Boorman and Wim Wenders, and worked on Paris, Texas, Orlando, 28 Days Later and State of Play among other films.

Kevin Macdonald is the Oscar-winning director of the documentaries One Day in September and Touching the Void, as well as the feature films The Last King of Scotland, State of Play and the forthcoming Eagle of the Ninth. He has written a biography of his grandfather Emeric Pressburger, as well as collaborating with Mark Cousins on Imagining Reality:The Faber Book of Documentary.

About Faber

Faber and Faber is the last of the great independent publishing houses in London. The firm was established in 1929 by Geoffrey Faber and its first editor was T. S. Eliot. Faber has been publishing film books since the 1930s. It has published Oscar-winning screenplays, interview books with Scorsese, Lynch and Tim Burton, as well as books about the craft of film-making such as Digital Film-making by Mike Figgis.

To make a booking:

Click here to book online.

Alternatively, contact Becky Fincham on either beckyf@faber.co.uk or tel. +44 (0) 20 7927 3908, or write to:

Becky Fincham
The Faber Academy
Bloomsbury House
74-77 Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DA

Please note: there are only 15 places available, so book early to avoid disappointment.