Susan Kouguell: Film/theatre journalist, filmmaker and screenwriter in New York City, New York.

So honored by the awards by short films have been receiving. To learn more: https://slkfilms.wpcomstaging.com

Pleased to announce my promotion at SCRIPT MAGAZINE to Senior Contributing Editor.

https://www.scriptmag.com/

Visit my blog for recent interviews with award-winning screenwriting and filmmakers:

http://su-city-pictures.com/wpblog/

Please visit my blog for recent interviews with award-winning screenwriting and filmmakers:

http://su-city-pictures.com/wpblog/

(Agnes Varda, Patricia Rozema, Jordana Spiro, Tom Cross, Margarethe von Trotta, Alison Klayman & Marie Therese Guirgis, and many more!)

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JOIN Susan's Online class 'WRITING THE DOCUMENTARY' - starts 3//1/18:

https://wp.me/p5jTOb-Lh

JOIN Susan's Online 'WRITING THE SERIES BIBLE: DEVELOPING YOUR TV SERIES' starts March 1: https://wp.me/p5jTOb-Le

Writing the Series Bible: Developing Your TV Series

A strong series bible is a crucial sales tool for your series. This workshop will help you get your TV series ready for an executive by developing your series premise, honing your pilot, and writing your series bible.

Join Susan's Online 'Writing the Series Bible: Developing Your TV Series' Class runs 2/1/18 - 3/1/18

Writing the Series Bible: Developing Your TV Series

https://www.screenwritersuniversity.com/courses/writing-the-series-bible...

A strong series bible is a crucial sales tool for your series. This workshop will help you get your TV series ready for an executive by developing your series premise, honing your pilot, and writing your series bible.

What You'll Learn:

The top tools for selling a TV series.

What a TV series needs before it can get off the ground.

How to write a series bible.

The key elements of a pilot that can launch a series.

What a first season needs.

Who Should Take This Course:

Writers developing a TV show.

Writers looking for tools to generate ideas for new episodes.

Writers who want to understand how to develop series long story arcs.

Writers wanting to put together a sales kit for their TV series.

Next session:

February 1 - March 1

Join my online 'Advanced Film Rewriting Workshop' at Screenwriters University

https://www.screenwritersuniversity.com/courses/advanced-film-rewriting-...

This ten-week workshop is broken up into five sessions that each focus on individual elements of the rewriting process. Each session, you will submit a section of your screenplay for review. Each session will also have focused lectures that help you on each step of your revision process. The lectures are there for support, but the focus of this workshop will be on your screenplay. Each session, you will submit to your instructor for private review, and also you can submit to the other workshop participants for peer review.

February 1 - April 12, 2018

My new Script Magazine article: A Conversation with Actress Vanessa Redgrave on Her Debut Documentary Sea Sorrow at the New York Film Festival

http://www.scriptmag.com/features/how-to-make-a-movie/documentary/conver...

My Script Magazine piece: A Conversation w/ ‘ZAMA’ Writer/Director Lucrecia Martel @TheNYFF @scriptmag

http://bit.ly/2fLkJpJ

Join my Writing the Documentary Film Online 4-week class: 10/12-11/9:

https://www.screenwritersuniversity.com/courses/writing-the-documentary-...

My new article: A Conversation with ‘Faces Places’ Documentary Filmmakers Agnès Varda and JR at the New York Film Festival

http://su-city-pictures.com/conversation-faces-places-documentary-filmma...

Join my Online Class: '7 Weeks to Your TV Spec Script': 9/28-11/16

Seven Weeks to Your TV Spec Script

https://www.screenwritersuniversity.com/courses/writing-a-spec-script-fo...

In this workshop, writers will learn all the key elements to a successful “episodic spec,” and will receive ongoing instructor guidance in building their own—from basic idea through finished outline. It begins with knowing how to choose the right kind of show to spec, then understanding which elements to study, in order to really grasp how a typical episode functions well enough to write one. Students will then learn the elements of great story ideas for a spec, and be given a chance to pitch and re-pitch multiple ideas for their episode, before finally settling on one to write. At that point, they will begin “breaking story” (figuring out the key “beats” of each “act”) over several weeks, getting instructor feedback along the way. Finally, they will be guided in crafting a scene-by-scene outline, from which they could then go on to write the actual script.

My new SCRIPT MAGAZINE article: Jane Campion Talks Top of the Lake, The Piano, Writing and Moviemaking

http://www.scriptmag.com/features/how-to-make-a-movie/film-directing/jan...

Join my online WRITING THE DOCUMENTARY class starts September 7

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017 / SUCITY / COMMENTS OFF ON SUSAN’S ONLINE WRITING THE DOCUMENTARY CLASS STARTS SEPTEMBER 7

Read more here and register:

https://www.screenwritersuniversity.com/courses/writing-the-documentary-...

My new Script Magazine article: Susan Kouguell Interviews ‘Swim Team’ Filmmaker Lara Stolman

http://bit.ly/2twYsVU

My new Script Magazine article: Susan Kouguell Interviews ‘Strange Weather’ Writer and Director Katherine Dieckmann

http://bit.ly/2tml0o5

Join my 'Seven Weeks to Your TV Spec Script ' online class

https://www.screenwritersuniversity.com/courses/writing-a-spec-script-fo...

In this workshop, writers will learn all the key elements to a successful “episodic spec,” and will receive ongoing instructor guidance in building their own—from basic idea through finished outline. It begins with knowing how to choose the right kind of show to spec, then understanding which elements to study, in order to really grasp how a typical episode functions well enough to write one. Students will then learn the elements of great story ideas for a spec, and be given a chance to pitch and re-pitch multiple ideas for their episode, before finally settling on one to write. At that point, they will begin “breaking story” (figuring out the key “beats” of each “act”) over several weeks, getting instructor feedback along the way. Finally, they will be guided in crafting a scene-by-scene outline, from which they could then go on to write the actual script.

Next sessions:

August 3 – September 21

My new Script Magazine article:

Susan Kouguell Interviews ‘Swim Team’ Filmmaker Lara Stolman

http://bit.ly/2twYsVU