Renown author to hold screenwriting seminar

A two-day seminar held by UK author Helen Jacey was announced today to be held in June.

The announcement:

Screen Australia is pleased to announce, on International Women’s Day, a new development initiative Writing the Heroine’s Story, a screenwriting seminar with renowned UK author, lecturer and screenwriter Helen Jacey. The two-day workshop will be held with a select group of Australian filmmakers in June 2013.

Participants will be invited to consider why successfully written screen heroines are more than just female heroes, and what they represent in terms of the writer’s attitudes and beliefs about gender and being a woman. The seminar will explore why we choose certain types of heroines, and what we want to say about women’s lives when we choose a heroine. Via practical examples and creative exercises, participants will put the principles into practice to benefit their own projects.