🎬 WORKSHOP: Cinematic Storytelling for Writers with Deborah Eve Lewis
​** This is a LIVE workshop. Attendees will be sent a video recording after the workshop. **
​Have you ever wondered if your story might make a great film? Are you curious about turning your creative ideas into moving images, but not sure where to start?
​In this hands-on workshop with filmmaker, cinematographer, and educator Deborah Eve Lewis, we’ll demystify the basics of filmmaking for writers. Whether you're exploring how to adapt your own work or are simply curious about cinematic storytelling, this interactive session will help you begin to see your writing through a filmmaker’s lens.
​This workshop blends lecture, short film screenings, and generative exercises—plus time for Q&A and discussion.
​📝 Bring a notebook and pen—you’ll be putting ideas into motion.
​We’ll explore:
​Why make movies? What film offers that the page can’t
​How to tell if your story has cinematic potential
​How to break down a scene like a screenwriter or director
Tips for getting started with filmmaking—even on your own​Warm-up exercises for developing a cinematic eye
​About Deborah Eve Lewis Â
​At age nine, Deborah Eve Lewis began taking pictures at summer camp, developing and printing her photographs and hasn’t stopped since - except now she takes 24 pictures per second. Â
​In her twenties, she worked as an on-set photographer for Robert Altman and a camera production assistant on dozens of movies, including films by Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Demme. She became a professional cinematographer in her 30s and has been shooting fiction and non-fiction films ever since. She teaches cinematography at the University of Texas at Austin and won the 2024 Moody College Award for Teaching Excellence in January.
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