Learn structure fundamentals or advance your skills with expert coaching and insight. We’ll pull apart your story from every angle in this intensive, writers’ room-style workshop. Leave with a solid outline/story and be ready to write the next Hollywood/indie/TV hit.
One of the most valuable aspects of our workshops is sharing with other writers in a nurturing, focused environment.
This will be a commuter workshop, running Friday morning through Sunday afternoon, with writing and thinking time built into the schedule. There are numerous food options in easy walking distance. The workshop will be capped at 6 writers.
Heidi Hornbacher is a writer, director, and instructor who writes stories of misfits struggling to find their place and themselves. Her rescue horse film, Arrow, won best short doc at the Malibu Film Fest 2021. Her short, Washed Away, about a struggling artist’s encounter with Picasso is streaming on Amazon Prime. Her animated family feature, Gristle, made the Grey List for 2023 and 2024, won 2023 Industrial Scripts Titan Awards, is a top 10 Finalist for 2025 Cinequest, and is in the top 1% on Coverfly.
A UCLA Screenwriting alum, she cofounded the Slamdance Script Clinic as well as PageCraft Writing and loves working with other writers to elevate their craft. She’s a frequent lecturer on craft at Slamdance, Roadmap Writers, Alameda International Film Festival, Coherence Education, and Eastern New Mexico University. As a kid she hid in her room to write stories about animals. This had the dual benefit of playing in imagination and avoiding chores.
She is repped by Zero Gravity.
Our readers judge for major screenwriting competitions, including Slamdance, Page International, and NYWIFT/IRIS Writer’s Lab. We will read your script, make line notes, and write a detailed report diagnosing problems and suggesting improvements in easy-to-digest sections like dialog, structure, style/tone, presentation, character, etc. We also offer telephone or Skype consultations.
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