Film Is For Everybody Screenwriting Workshop Series

CLEVELAND - June 18, 2015 - PRLog -- Cleveland native Najaa Young returns with her Film Is For Everybody Screenwriting Workshop Series, July 11 and July 18, 2015 at Antioch Baptist Church, 8869 Cedar Ave., Cleveland OH 44106. The series is designed for the person who is eager to learn how to write a professional screenplay but doesn't quite know where to start. Workshop participants will learn the fundamentals of storytelling, how to develop a dramatic arc using the 3 act structure, how to create compelling characters, how to properly to format a screenplay and more importantly, what to do with their completed feature length screenplays. Workshops will be from 9:30am to 1:30pm, July 11th and 18th, which is a total of 8 hours of instruction!

Najaa has a MFA in Film Production from Florida State University's highly regarded Graduate Conservatory of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts. In addition to being President and CEO of NaRa Films, Najaa is currenlty an adjunct professor of Media Production at American InterContinental University where she teaches the following courses, Screenwriting, Pitching and Project Management and Production Techniques as well as others. She has also worked nearly every position on a film set on student and professional productions.

Najaa worked for nearly 20 years in arts education and theater in Cleveland, OH, Pittsburgh, PA, and Los Angeles, CA.  She has performed at Cleveland Public Theatre, Karamu House, Cleveland Natural History Museum, Cuyahoga Community College and Chatham University. Her films have been invited to screen at the Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival, Yale University Visual Conexx, Atlanta Pan African Film Festival, Denver Pan African Film Festival, Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival, Hamburg International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival and the Nashville Film Festival just to name a few.

To register or for more information about the Film Is For Everybody Screenwriting Workshop Series please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/film-is-for-everybody-screen...