ACTRA Alberta is offering a 2 day in-person SCREEN WRITING workshop to members.

Course Overview

May 10, 2025 – Day 1 
You have vivid, creative, and cool ideas you want to turn into screenplays, and eventually, films. Well, here’s your chance to get on that. In this two-day workshop, you will learn how to grab hold of new ideas and help them blossom into fully realized concepts.

Through brainstorming exercises, script analysis, and learning the basics of screenplay formatting and craft, you will leave end of day one with at least one or two solid short film concepts to develop further.

June 14, 2025 – Day 2
Five weeks later, in class two, you will have an opportunity to show your rough drafts, receive feedback, ask questions, hear some of your scenes out loud, and talk strategies for how to approach rewriting and eventually get the thing made. And don’t worry, during the weeks between the classes, I’ll be a short email or zoom call away should you want additional advice or feedback.

Dates & Times:
Saturday, May 10, 2025 – Day 1 | 10am – 5 pm
Sunday, June 14, 2025 – Day 2 | 10am – 5 pm

Cost: $15+ GST for 2 day Workshop
Location: Calgary – ACTRA Alberta Office
These sessions will be IN PERSON 
Available to ACTRA Alberta Members in good standing.

Registration Cut-off Date: April 20, 2025

Only 12 spots available for this event.

Sign up HERE

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Jason Long Bio:
Screenwriter / Playwright / Actor / Stand-up / Helpin’ Buddies

Jason has been writing for film and theatre in Canada for over six hundred years. He’s co-written four feature films, written and directed a couple of shorts, and has worked tirelessly for four plus years to convince an incredibly skittish neighborhood cat to like him.

Jason is an instructor in the film department at the SAIT. He has previously facilitated screenwriting workshops with organizations such as Company of Rogues Actors’ Studio, Alexandra Writers Centre Society, NUTV, and the Calgary Society Of Independent Filmmakers.

He is also a stand-up comedian and actor, having played various creeps and weirdos in many series and films, including The Abandons, Wyonna Earp, The Order, Dead Again In Tombstone, and Young Drunk Punk.

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