Making a Film • Film Writing Workshop with Manlio Castagna
Thursday, June 18, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm • Palazzo Santa Croce (via Santa Croce 6, Cuneo)
An intensive film writing for kids and young adults under 25 (aged 15 and up), designed to offer a first hands-on approach to working on film text. Over the course of three hours, Manlio Castagna will guide us through the transformation of a simple idea into a short film scene.
Through practical examples and short exercises, we will work on the essential steps: identifying a conflict, building a situation, giving shape to characters and dialogues, understanding how cinema tells a story through actions and images.
Immediate tools to stimulate a more conscious look at the creative process that leads from word to scene.
Manlio Castagna (Salerno, 1974), writer, screenwriter, and director, has been involved in the organization of the Giffoni children's film festival for over twenty years and was its deputy artistic director from 2007 to 2018. After writing and directing award-winning short films, documentaries, web series, music videos, and animation, he made his debut in children's literature with the bestselling saga "Petrademone" (Mondadori), translated into several languages. His numerous other publications include two young adult horror films for Piemme, Le belve and Goodwill , and the finalists for the Strega Prize Ragazze e Ragazzi, La notte delle malombre and Di fuoco e seta . In 2022, his first feature film as a screenwriter and director, produced by Rai Cinema and One More Pictures, was released . The novel La reincarnazione delle sorelle Klun (Mondadori) was published in the same year. He teaches a course at the Holden School on genre writing (horror, fantasy, sci-fi).
Initiative carried out as part of the Young Based Community project supported by Anci.
How to participate
The workshop is free, but registration is required by clicking here. For information: info@scrittorincitta.it • 0171.444822
