Screenwriting for Fiction Short Films
Presentation (Who am I)
A course by Alejandra Moffat , Author and screenwriter
About the video: Presentation (Who am I)
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to tell you some details of my childhood and how I was writing in different formats: plays, stories, novels until I reached a writing that I have a special affection for: the script. ”
In this video lesson Alejandra Moffat addresses the topic: Presentation (Who am I), which is part of the Domestika online course: Screenwriting for Fiction Short Films. Learn how to develop a story for cinema, from beginning to end.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello, my name is Alejandra Moffat, I am a screenwriter. I was born in Chile, in the city of Los Angeles, which is in the south. All the summers of my childhood I spent in my grandmother's house and she had a house full of books. All the corridors were towers and towers of books. Little by little, the grandsons and granddaughters got used to to take out books and read them, imitating her. The truth was very nice because they were books of all kinds. My grandmother was a fan of horror books, but at the same time biographical, historical, detective novels. I had a lot of literary...”
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Course summary for: Screenwriting for Fiction Short Films
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Creative Writing, Film, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Narrative, Script, Writing

Alejandra Moffat
A course by Alejandra Moffat
Alejandra Moffat is passionate about stories in its multiple formats and facets. She writes novels, stories, and above all, a copious amount of scripts. During her studies, she wrote scripts in fiction, animation, documentary, as well as having advised for film productions in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, France, Germany, and other countries.
The films she has worked on have been awarded at international festivals like Berlinale, Rotterdam, FICUNAM, Havana Film Festival, Cinema Tropical, and Annecy.
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