Introduction to Screenwriting Course

Alan Brash and Christina Milligan offer a 10-week introductory course in screen writing at the Creative Hub this coming May. The in-depth course includes discussion about the mechanics and principles of the TV and film industry in New Zealand, what makes a film script strong enough for funding bodies and studios to pour millions into its production, what the language- and medium-specific rules of screenwriting are. This is a unique chance to show your work to professionals who not only have the experience of seeing their own work through to production, but who are producers themselves, always on the look-out for new talent.

Between them, Alan and Christina have worked on several top-rating TV series both here and in Australia, both as screenplay writers and script editors. Alan has taught screenwriting at Unitec and South Seas Film & Television School, having worked in the film and TV industry going back to the early 1990s, including writing for Shortland Street and creating the TV3 dramedy The Strip. His directorial debut, the short film Be Careful…, played at the Show Me Shorts Film Festival in 2010. Christina has worked as a writer on the top-ranked Australian drama McLeod’s Daughters, All Saints and as a script editor on Ch 7’s Something in the Air. She was a producer on Nights in the Garden of Spain, an adaptation of the Witi Ihimaera novel, and executive producer on a short film series for the NZ Film Commission, including three films that went to the Sundance, Berlin and the Los Angeles festivals. She has been a lecturer in film at the Universities of Auckland and Otago and has sat on various New Zealand film boards.