Five Saturdays, Aug.7, 21, 28, Sept. 11 & 25, 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m.  Berkeley
$185 members/$215 non-members

The basic premise behind almost every successful feature film can be stated in one simple sentence: Someone we care about wants something badly and is having a terrible time getting it. “Pretty simple, right?” says instructor Terrel Seltzer.  “But how do you make a character sympathetic? How do you establish a compelling desire?  How do you structure rising tension so that the Hollywood Reader keeps turning the page? That’s the art and the craft of screenwriting.”

In this class, every aspect of writing your screenplay will be explored in the following five stages:

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