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Introduction to Scriptwriting

Scriptwriting: From Idea to Screen

Stories shape how we understand ourselves and the world — but writing for the screen requires developing your good idea. It requires learning how to transform emotion, conflict, and imagination into scenes that can be seen, heard, and felt. 

EnActe Film Lab and Junoon Labs’ Fiction Screenwriting: From Idea to Screen is an 8-week immersive writing course for aspiring screenwriters, filmmakers and storytellers who want to develop original stories for cinema. Through guided lectures, film analysis, writing exercises, and workshop sessions, participants will move from an initial story idea to a completed short screenplay.

Alka Raghuram is an award winning Bay Area based filmmaker and a multidisciplinary artist. She has made several fiction, experimental, and documentary films. Her feature documentary Burqa Boxers, about Muslim women boxers in Kolkata, was awarded the Director Of The Year award at the IDF Forum, Westlake International Documentary Festival, and also the top prize, Grant Open Doors, at the Locarno Film Festival co-production market. Burqa Boxers was distributed via MUBI until the end of 2023. She was awarded the L’Oreal Woman of Worth Filmmaker Award at Tribeca All Access for her script The Conqueror. Currently she is in advance development for her debut fiction film In The Ring, and documentary “Naksha Paani (Face of Water).