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This online course is intended for 20-25 aspiring fiction feature screenwriters who will benefit from an intensive immersion into the craft of screenwriting.

Please fill out the below form if you are interested in participating in this year’s course, upon submitting the form you will be directed to the purchase page and will be able to complete your enrollment. If you have any questions you can contact us at helpdesk@nantucketfilmfestival.org.

NANCY MEYERS (Writer / Director / Producer) is a trailblazing filmmaker who, as a first-rate writer, director and producer, has created a body of work focusing on the female experience with her exceptionally literate and sophisticated comedies.  Tapping into the very heart of modern relationships, she chronicles women and men, at work and in love, in a singular fashion that makes each film instantly recognizable as a Nancy Meyers movie. NFF 2012 Screenwriters Tribute Honoree.

STELLA MEGHIE (Writer / Director) is quietly defying Hollywood convention, one film at a time, with three feature films, and two in development. Meghie is one of a tiny few black women filmmakers with a similar resume, working at the studio level. NFF 2012 Tony Cox Feature Screenplay Competition Winner. 2012 Screenwriter Colony Fellow.

GREGORY NAVA (Writer/Director/Producer) is an Academy Award-winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker best known for a number of groundbreaking films focused on the Latinx experience. In 1981, Nava along with a small band of filmmakers founded Film Independent, with the purpose of elevating the voices of un-told stories that were not being told by studios or our mainstream media.

LESLIE DIXON (Writer / Producer) for more than thirty years, has been writing some of the seminal comedies of our time and imagining into existence iconic characters who have been brought to cinematic life by the greatest comedians. Dixon in more recent years has also kept audiences on the edge of their seats with smart and suspenseful screenplays, and adapted cult classics for a new audience, making her a truly versatile creator. NFF 2019 Screenwriters Tribute Honoree.

CHARLIE KAUFMAN (Writer / Director / Producer) is a multi-award-winning filmmaker known for his offbeat films and ambitious narrative style. His body of work which includes films that range from black comedy to thrillers separates Kaufman as one of our deepest and most imaginative thinkers/writers about the self. NFF 2004 Screenwriters Tribute Honoree.

KAITLIN FONTANA is an Emmy-nominated writer and director. Her feature film script, GIRLFRIEND ON MARS, was on the 2019 Black List and her directorial debut, FRANCHESCA, was a Sundance Film Festival selection. Kaitlin lives in Los Angeles, CA, and was born in Fernie, BC, Canada.

Fontana’s credits include hosting the Writers Guild of America, East podcast, On Screenwriting. Her writing has won prestigious honors including the inaugural WGA/Made in New York Writers Room Fellowship, NYTVF 2018 Development Deal with Audible, 2018 WriteHer List Honoree, NFF 2017 Showtime Tony Cox Episodic Comedy Screenplay Award which included a spot in the Episodic Comedy Screenwriters Colony, and 2017 Bitch List Honoree.