Storytelling for Short Film Screenplays
Influences
A course by Lud Mônaco , Writer and Film Director
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this class, I will share some of the main references that make me vibrate and awaken my desire to create.”
In this video lesson Lud Mônaco addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Storytelling for Short Film Screenplays. Discover fundamental script-writing techniques to tell a story through narrative metaphors.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences You will meet the people who influenced my work both aesthetically and philosophically. My interest in reading really started at the age of 18, when the book "The World of Sofia" came into my hands. I was fascinated by this book, a dramatized compilation with the main philosophers of history. The encounter with this work was fundamental to awaken the dormant interest that I already had in philosophy. And such was my surprise when identifying questions about nothing in my teenage diaries. And it was at that age that I started to understand and assimilate that life consists of this...”
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Course summary for: Storytelling for Short Film Screenplays
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Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, Storytelling, Writing

Lud Mônaco
A course by Lud Mônaco
Lud Mônaco is a Director and storyteller with a master degree from the Barcelona Film School (ECIB). Her film project Para, pero sigue won the Best Short Film Award at the Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival.
Her work has been selected for major festivals like Berlinale Talents 2017, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany), the Sitges Film Festival (Spain), and Mix Brasil. Lud has also worked with companies like Vice, Rede Globo, Stink, and Boiler Room.
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