Craft Seminar: Film School for Fiction Writers: The 10 Scenes Every Drama Must Have with Sunil Yapa
Craft Seminar: Film School for Fiction Writers: The 10 Scenes Every Drama Must Have with Sunil Yapa
1 Session: Saturday, April 25
1:00-4:00pm ET
Sunil Yapa
Sunil is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. His bestselling novel Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist was a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner award and was described as "fast-paced and unflinching" by The New Yorker, "a genuine tour-de-force" by The Seattle Times, and “generation-defining” by The Toronto Star. Yapa holds an MFA in Fiction from the City University of New York- Hunter where we worked with Colum McCann and Peter Carey. He also holds a certificate in writing from the UCLA Film and Television program.
Using clips from Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Godfather, The Great Gatsby, Titanic, Star Wars, Pride & Prejudice, Breaking Bad, and more, we will break down and highlight the ten crucial scenes in every successful drama. In this introductory one day craft seminar we will learn the ups and downs of three act structure: from the inciting incident to the moment of despair, from the character’s ghost to their moment of revelation. You’ll leave with a deeper understand of how great stories work their magic—to use in your own work or just to wow your friends with your sparkling insights about this year’s Oscar winners.
Workshop Highlights:
Learn the secrets of cinematic storytelling
Supported with multiple examples from well-known films
Study with a hybrid novelist-screenwriter.
This class has 2 half scholarships available. To apply, please fill out this form by Friday, April 17.
Sunil Yapa is the author of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist (Lee Boudreaux Books, 2016), a finalist for the 2017 PEN/Faulkner award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Pick. It was also named one of the best books of 2016 by Amazon, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, Bustle, and others.
Yapa’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in American Short Fiction, Guernica, O Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Margins, Hyphen, Slice, LitHub and others. He is the recipient of the 2010 Asian American Short Story Award, sponsored by Hyphen Magazine and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York, and has received scholarships to The New York State Summer Writers’ Institute, The Norman Mailer Writers’ Center in Provincetown and The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.
