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Take a look at historical fiction using elements of place, time, and cultural, political and socio-economical context for developing characters and a plot narrative. Class will involve group discussions of setting, writing exercises and reading assignments, and workshop of short fiction and flash fiction.

Learn all the basics of writing a screenplay, and finish the class with a script that you can actually shoot, send to film festivals, and maybe even win awards. This course is an introduction to the techniques and elements of screenwriting, designed to provide you with skills that cultivate 1) an ability to create narrative story lines; 2) an understanding of the dramatic structure of screenplays; and 3) an ability to read and write in basic film script format.

Local Haitian authors Rebecca Demas, M.J. Fievre, and Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel lead creative writing workshops with high school students.

Presented by the City of Miami, Little Haiti Cultural Complex in Collaboration with Lobey Art &Travel and Future Roots Collective.