Dynamic seminars that strengthen skills, hone voice, and deliver the industry insights, the edge, and the action plan screenwriters need to break in, plus the mentorship to make it happen.
Take Your Writing to the Next Level…
The Screenwriting Elevated Online Seminar
Intimate – Interactive – Innovative
Screenwriting Elevated meets once monthly for seven months. It designed to expand and strengthen the high-level skills that ensure your writing makes the cut and that your scripts stand out. Limited to 12 participants accomplished in craft, subject to instructor approval, ready to make the leap from “aspiring” to professional writing that grabs industry attention.
Are you ready to shine?
This Online Writing Series Offers the Best of Everything:
Lecture & Discussion – Go In-depth on Advanced Topics
Guest Speakers – Q & A and Conversation With A-List Writers
Build Strengths & Hone Skills – Exclusive Reading, Custom Handouts, Unique Tools, Inventive Exercises
Mentorship – Three and a half hours of one-on-one calls – valued at $525! This is your time. Constructive, actionable, honest feedback on your work, your ideas, and your career.
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Screenwriting Elevated Topics:
- Seven Essential Elements of Story: Harness the Primal Power of Storytelling
- Structure: A New Perspective and an Innovative Approach
- Foundation of Story: Beneath Structure – First Find the Foundation
- Theme and Personal Thematic: Master The Message and Power Your Work
- Subtext: Secrets to Activating Emotions and Engaging Readers With Words
- The Story Creating Recipe: An Integrative Method from Concept to Fade In
- The Writer’s Voice: Seven Qualities That Make Your Writing Outstanding
$595 includes one monthly session for 7 months and 3½ hours of private mentorship.
One Merit/Needs based Scholarship available. One Work/Study Scholarship available.
Next Session: 2026 TBA – Subscribe Now for updates, discounts and to apply for Scholarships!
Saturdays 10a-1:30p Pacific · 11a-2:30p Mountain · 12p-3:30p Central · 1p-4:30p Eastern · 6p-9:30p UK
For Questions & to Save Your Space: Contact us at barri <@> bigbigideas dot com
Screenwriting Elevated A-List Guest Speakers
Include Academy Award-Winners and Nominees representing billions in Box Office success and a depth of experience in features and series, as writers, directors and producers.
These writers are known for their distinctive voices and their iconic films. There to answer all your questions, discuss their breaking-in tales, share their storytelling philosophy or struggles. An intimate chat with plenty of Q & A.
Past Guest Speakers Include:
Jeff Arch (Sleepless in Seattle), Shane Black (Die Hard), David Diamond & David Weissman (The Family Man), Bruce Evans & Ray Gideon (Stand by Me), Mark Fergus & Hawk Otsby (Children of Men), Richard LaGravanese (The Fisher King), Meg LeFauve (Inside Out), Tab Murphy (Gorillas in the Mist), Mark Protosevich (Sugar), Ed Solomon (Men in Black), Jenny Wingfield (The Man in the Moon)
The Big Ideas Seminar: Immerse Yourself in a Weekend Intensive!
In a weekend, the Big Ideas Seminar takes screenwriters from “What to Write?” to “Ready to Write!” Plus 6 months of mentorship to ensure you succeed.
Perfect for your writer’s group to do together!
Big Ideas centers on the most powerful thing in the film business – a great story idea. Learn to create concepts that are meaningful to you, can ignite industry interest, and will resonate with audiences.
- Elevate your writing by identifying your Screenwriting Strengths
- Ignite your writing process and bring depth to you story by discovering the themes unique to you.
- Combine harnessing your passions and your strengths with industry insights so you can put both to work for you and break in.
There are lots of ways to learn craft. Big Ideas revolutionizes the way you create. I’ve developed powerful tools to help you target the right idea for you to write next and to crack your story quickly and effectively.
- Accomplish more while spending less time rewriting. Solve story problems on a two-page template instead of ripping apart 120 pages.
- Become a confident pitcher.
- Transform pitching from a terrifying experience into an idea-developing tool and a fast track to structure your story.
- Be fearless in the face of structure, turning it into a friend rather a foe.
More than just a seminar. Far from an impersonal lecture, this intimate and interactive intensive is centered on your stories and your career. Advance Assignments ensure we make the most out of our time and enable me to customize your experience.
Big Ideas means mentorship. Six months of individual mentorships keeps you on track for success. Contact me with story ideas, for feedback on work-in-progress, and answers about the industry. It’s like having a producer in your corner, fighting to help your story achieve its utmost potential and reach the marketplace.
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$450 for the Seminar including Six Months of Mentorship
Inspiring, instructive and worth every penny! Now I have every assurance that my tombstone will not read: “She was still working on Act 2.“
Jennifer Massey, Richmond, VA
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