Screen-writing from Personal Experience Workshop

This event took place on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024 at 9:30 amYukon Theatre

Screen-writing from Personal Experience Workshop with Chandler Levack (I Like Movies).

Where do we get our inspiration from? For many, it's our formative first experiences - first heartbreak, first falling out with a friend, first job - that make us into the people we are today. In this intimate and interactive screenwriting workshop, writer/director Chandler Levack ("I Like Movies") will teach you how to structure a screenplay based on a universal "first" experience. She'll break down the structure of a typical screenplay or TV pilot in the "coming of age" genre, give you a syllabus of movies and TV shows to watch, as well as screenwriting resources, and create an in-class writer's room based on the essential experience of your "first job." For fans of movies and TV shows like "Lady Bird" and "Freaks & Geeks," learn how mining your most embarrassing moments experiences can be the cornerstone of great screenwriting, as well as how to dramatize those moments on the page as a screenwriter. 

Meet Chandler Levack—the talented and much buzzed about filmmaker who’s making waves in the Canadian screen industry with the release of her debut feature, I Like Movies. Chandler studied cinema at the University of Toronto before joining the Writers’ Lab of our Norman Jewison Film Program, where she explored her creative talents while captivating peers and mentors alike with her unique gifts and charisma.

Upon completing the film program at the CFC, Chandler released her debut short film, We Forgot To Break Up, whichpremiered at TIFF in 2017 and won the award for Best Canadian Short Film at the Whistler Film Festival the same year. In 2022, Chandler returned to TIFF for the world premiere of her first feature, I Like Movies,which has received rave reviews both in Canada and internationally.