WriteMovies Academy Lite
Daily screenwriting mentoring for under $5 a day.
Keep your writing moving with regular creative challenges, industry-focused activities, personalised feedback and ongoing professional guidance from our team.
LIMITED-TIME SPECIAL OFFER
Get your first week FREE
Join Academy Lite for just $95 for your first month
Then $125/month.
Offer limited to the first 10 sign-ups or until October 25th – whichever comes first.
WHAT YOU GET:
What do you get with Academy Lite?
Daily Creative Challenges
Regular prompts and activities designed to keep you writing, experimenting and making progress.
Personalized Mentoring
Submit your work and receive daily personalized feedback and guidance from the WriteMovies team.
Academy Resources
Proven exercises and resources from WriteMovies Academy to help you develop your writing, try different approaches and strengthen your craft.
Free Contest Entries
Enter one script to a current or upcoming WriteMovies contest every month at no additional cost.
HOW IT WORKS:
How does Academy Lite work?
Academy Lite is designed to fit around your writing routine. Work through the challenges and resources at your own pace, submit your work to us for feedback, and use the guidance you receive to keep developing your writing and projects.
1. Write and Develop – Use our creative challenges and Academy resources to keep writing, experimenting and developing your craft.
2. Submit & Get Daily Feedback – Send your work to the WriteMovies team each day and receive personalized mentoring and guidance.
3. Keep Moving Forward – Apply your feedback, continue developing your work and enter a script to a current or upcoming WriteMovies contest every month at no additional cost.
DAILY DEVELOPMENT:
Something new to develop your writing every day.
Each week, you’ll receive a new seven-day Academy Lite pack, with daily materials designed to keep you creating, experimenting and developing your screenwriting.
Monday to Friday, you’ll work through Creative Challenges, practical writing activities and development resources. Many begin with a short, focused creative prompt – giving you a manageable way to generate ideas, try different approaches and explore your strengths as a writer.
At the weekend, the pace changes. Lighter Watch and Reflect activities encourage you to engage with films and television as a writer – considering what works, what doesn’t and what you can take from it into your own work.
Short, focused activities designed to fit around your writing and your day means you can make progress by committing as little as 15-45 minutes a day.
Daily mentoring when you submit your work.
Academy Lite isn’t just a set of resources to work through on your own. When you submit the outcomes of your activities to us by email, the WriteMovies team will send you personalized feedback and guidance.
That gives you the opportunity to receive daily mentoring as you work through the programme – applying the feedback directly to your writing and continuing to develop your work.
WHO IT’S FOR:
Academy Lite is designed for production-curious writers and aspiring producers/filmmakers who want to keep developing.
Whether you’re starting out, developing your first screenplay or already working on your own projects, Academy Lite gives you regular opportunities to write, experiment, receive feedback and strengthen your craft.
It’s particularly useful if you want to:
• Develop your screenwriting skills through regular practical work.
• Generate new ideas and experiment with different approaches to writing.
• Get professional feedback on your work as you develop it.
• Keep making progress between larger projects, drafts or periods of development.
• Develop your industry insight and confidence at the same time.
• Work towards stronger screenplays– with the option to enter the WriteMovies Screenwriting Contest each month at no additional cost.
INCLUDED WITH ACADEMY LITE:
Enter the WriteMovies Screenwriting Contest at no additional cost
As an Academy Lite member, you have the option to enter one screenplay to a current or upcoming WriteMovies Contest every month at no additional cost – normally from $49 per entry.
This gives you somewhere to take the work you’re developing through Academy Lite when you feel it’s ready, with the opportunity to progress through the WriteMovies contest and into our wider industry pipeline.
Our contest winners receive a year of development, representation through TalentScout International Management, and industry pitching – giving strong projects the opportunity to move beyond the page.
Academy Lite membership: $125/month
Monthly contest entry: normally from $49 per entry – included at no additional cost
WHY WRITEMOVIES:
Over 25 years of developing writers and screenplays.
WriteMovies has been helping writers develop their work and take their projects forward since we were established in Hollywood in 1999.
Over that time, we’ve assessed and developed thousands of screenplays from writers around the world, with two Oscar-nominated writers among our notable success stories.
Academy Lite brings that experience and approach into an affordable, ongoing programme – giving you regular opportunities to develop your craft and receive professional feedback as you work.
Established in Hollywood in 1999
WriteMovies has spent over 25 years assessing, developing and championing screenwriting talent internationally.
Founded on industry expertise
WriteMovies founder Dr Alex Ross has decades of Hollywood experience, including serving as co-agent to Quentin Tarantino. His doctorate from Oxford examined how scripts become blockbusters, and he has also taught at Yale.
Close to how the industry works
Our ongoing involvement with the international entertainment industry helps keep our feedback, contests and development opportunities connected to how projects are assessed and progressed professionally.
And your development doesn’t have to stop with Academy. As your writing progresses, WriteMovies offers further opportunities to develop and take strong projects forward through our wider services, contests and industry pipeline.
“Any writer looking to move their script to a higher level can’t go wrong by turning to WriteMovies for feedback.”
– Tom Craig
Producer of Shakespeare in Love, Rain Man and many other top films.
READY TO GET STARTED?
Join WriteMovies Academy Lite
Keep developing your screenwriting with Creative Challenges, practical activities and daily personalized mentoring – for under $5 a day.
LIMITED-TIME SPECIAL OFFER
Get your first week FREE
$95 for your first month
$125/month thereafter. Cancel anytime.
Offer limited to the first 10 sign-ups or until October 25th – whichever comes first.
Membership includes weekly Academy Lite materials, daily mentoring when you submit your work, and the option to enter a screenplay into a current or upcoming WriteMovies Contest every month at no additional cost.