06/03/2025
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This session will provide a simple, practical approach to formatting your screenplay to industry standards. Weโll cover the fundamental principles of the screenwriting format and examine how each script element contributes to storytelling.
While weโll touch briefly on different types of scripts across various mediums, the primary focus will be on writing a film scene - demonstrating how all these elements come together in practice.
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๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ: Wednesday, 19 March 2025
๐ง๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ: 18:00 - 19:00 SAST
๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: Online (Zoom link sent by 12pm, 19 March 2025 - Please add [email protected] to your contact list)
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/wrdheLWcKLjZHuKB7
NB: Registration is essential.WGSA members may attend free of charge. We also invite members of our sister organisations Safrea and DFA to attend free of charge. Non-members pay ZAR 75.00
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Theoline Maphutha is a screenwriter, industry advocate, and trainer with nearly 20 years of experience in film and television. Over 14 of those years have been dedicated to training performance writers at various levels and championing their rights as a Writers Guild of South Africa (WGSA) member. She played a key role in advocating for performance writers during the public participation of the Copyright Amendment Bill in Parliament and was honoured with the prestigious WGSA Service Excellence Award.
In addition to her work as a writer and advocate, Theoline is a trained script reader. Over the past decade, she has reviewed and analysed 500+ scripts across genres for competitions and awards, including the WGSA Muse Awards. She has also served as a judge and panel chair for the South African Film and Television Awards (SAFTAs).
She holds an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory, where she was a World Cinema Class teaching assistant and the screenwriting instructor for the inaugural Young Women In Film initiative (a collaboration with the Will & Jada Smith Family Foundation), teaching high school girls the fundamentals of screenwriting. The AFI thesis film, Junior, which she co-wrote, was nominated for Best Short Film at the Pan African Film & Arts Festival. Cinturรณn Negro (Black Belt), another co-written short, gained international recognition in Argentina and Spain, including a special LGBTQIA+ award.
Theoline began her screenwriting career as a researcher and writer on corporate video projects and SABC 2โs Living Land, a lifestyle programme spotlighting agriculture. Sheโs a Berlinale Talents Durban alum, and her directorial short film, Sidetracked, is currently in post-production with support from the National Film and Video Foundation.
