Learn to write a screenplay for a short film

If  you’ve ever imagined yourself as a film screenwriter, now’s your chance to learn how to make it happen.  This FREE course is delivered by Andrew Patrick, well known in the North West for advising film production companies.  Andrew was the CEO of the British Film Commission, Deputy CEO of The Film and Television Producers Association and inaugural CEO of the North West Screen Agency.

The course will start on Zoom, with the intention (subject to prevailing legislation) to end the course by meeting up in a suitable venue.  At the end of the course Learners will be given a Certificate of Course Completion,  a printed version of their finished screenplay, with comments by Andrew Patrick.

The project is organised by WEA (Workers Education Authority) with funding from the ESF, and delivered by She Inspires Foundation.

She Inspires Foundation is a Community Interest Company dedicated to the support of victims of domestic abuse, and survivors are welcome to be part of the course.

Andrew will tell you how short films were the birth of the movie industry as we know it.  Even today, short films are producing their own magic and even their own income stream.  Think of pop videos, Instagram, Tik Tok and a whole new generation of user generated videos.  But for us, it’s good old fashioned drama.  How can you tell a story in 15 minutes?

If you want to write your own screenplay, this course will help you.  If you don’t think you have the writing skills but feel you can contribute with ideas and comments as a screen play is put together, there’s a place for you on this course.  Along the way a few industry professionals will ‘drop in’ to talk to you, including at least one Oscar Winner!

And before the course ends, we want you to volunteer for a new production company that will be dedicated to making one or more of the screenplays produced by the group.  Just click on the button below to apply, mentioning that you want to apply for the screenwriting course.