Marina Shron is an award-winning New York-based writer/filmmaker. Her short films, including Sea Child, Lullaby for Ray and The Silent Love of the Fish, have been featured at film festivals around the world and have won awards including Best Short Film in Hamptons and Toronto. Buddha’s Little Finger, a feature she co-wrote with Tony Pemberton, was released in 2016.
Shron has received awards for her work from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts and the Jerome Foundation. Most recently, she was awarded a Nostos Screenwriting Fellowship for The Image Makers. She’s currently in pre-production for her feature as writer-director of The Fruit of Our Womb. A former Fulbright scholar, she also teaches screenwriting at The New School in NYC.
This course is an examination of all forms of writing relevant to film and media creation. This includes a thorough study of traditional 'story film' screenwriting, as well as writing techniques for documentary production and preproduction writing problems, such as proposals, treatments, and outlines. It is also a study of nontraditional writing problems in filmmaking: writing for nonlinear or experimental films, writing for a framework for improvisation, using text as a direct generator of filmed work, and even using text as the content of film. And last, but certainly not least, there is considerable attention paid to developing skills in critical writing. By the end of this course, students will have a portfolio of written work, including a polished draft of a short film or long-form first act, which demonstrates a wide variety of techniques for relating the written word to media.
