Scriptateria Writers’ Group - Writers Helping Writers

Scriptateria is a bi-monthly meeting of active TV, Feature and Shorts screenwriters where we will have a table read of their work and help that writer improve their work. Those attending will be asked to read the dialogue of certain characters or be the narrator for action. Actors are invited.
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FORMAT
At each group meet up, 2 or 3 writers will bring either the first 10 pages or 30 pages of their work to be read and discussed.

DATES
The group will meet on limited Tueday evenings throughout the summer.

The group is limited to 18 people per meet up.

PARTICIPATE
Please RSVP on the Meetup. To have your pages read, you must have attended at least 2 meetups where you’ve given feedback to the writers.

You may attend the first meetup free of charge. For further meetups, you need to join Fimmaking Lisboa and pay the annual €20 fee.

If you qualify to have your project read, please leave the name of your project and break out how many readers you will need for your characters. A good guideline is to have the main characters read individually and to have multiple minor male or female characters batched together. List any special characters that may have an accent.
Example:
My Greatest Script
I need a 1 narrator, 2 main male characters, 3 main female characters and 1 for misc minor female characters for a total of 7 readers for the 30 pages.
Special characters: 1 French male, 1 Nigerian female
We will do our best to bring characters alive that may not be of that soecific nationality.
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DOs
Give constructive criticism to help the writer refine the script.
Keep your feedback short, about 2 minutes.
If you didn’t have time to give notes to the writer, please ask to contact the writer after the meetup.
Buy a drink or eat to support the cafe.

DON’T
Criticize the subject matter as you don’t know where the story is going.
Interject politics.
Criticize nationalities, nations, races, gender preferences.