The International Screenwriters' Association is inviting our screenwriting members to join the ISA team to become a Young Storytellers Mentor in a Los Angeles area school! 

As a Young Storytellers Mentor, you'll get to share your skills and talents as screenwriters with children, helping them use storytelling as a creative and personal outlet. Watch this video we have produced to get an idea of the amazing program you will be getting involved in. 

What will you be doing? 

You’ll be going to Dolored Mission School, located at 170 Gless St, Los Angeles 90033, one day a week, for one hour. You’ll be working with group of ten other mentors, all led by a trained Head Mentor who will teach you everything you need to know.

By the second session, you’ll be paired with a 5th grade student, who you’ll help guide through the process of writing a script. Mostly, this entails being an awesome secretary. They have the ideas — you just help them come out. 

In the 7th week, these scripts will be performed by professional actors in front of an auditorium full of fifth graders, teachers, parents and friends. This, we promise, will be awesome. But not as awesome as the smile on your mentee’s face as they watch their words come to life.

What’s the time commitment? 

One hour a week during your lunch hour, for seven weeks. At the end there will be a Big Show. You’ll need to take 2-3 hours for this day. Dates:

Tuesdays from noon-1pm

Session 1: 2/28 - from noon-1pm

Session 2: 3/7- from noon-1pm

Session 3: 3/21 - from noon-1pm

Session 4: 3/28 - from noon-1pm

Session 5: 4/4 - from noon-1pm

Session 6: 4/11 - from noon-1pm

 

No meeting on 3/14 & 4/18

 

BIG SHOW & wrap party: 5/2

11:30a-12:30pm - warm up and casting with writers, mentors and actors

1:30 - 3pm - BIG SHOW

IMPORTANT: Please register here and also fill out the application including a note that you are with the ISA. Someone will be in touch with you shortly. Application link

The Young Storytellers Foundation develops literacy through the art of storytelling. Using group exercises and one-on-one mentoring, YSF provides underserved children in the public school system an opportunity to write stories and see them brought to life through performance.