The Recorded Lecture Series - is taught by UCLA instructors and covers every aspect of the process from initial concept though rewrite.

The Live Q&A -  Students will attend a live Q&A session on Zoom  with one of our lecture series instructors on Monday nights at 7pm Pacific Time to ask any questions they may have after viewing the recorded lecture. Guest speakers from the film industry will visit the Live Q&A to discuss the state of the business and how to approach it as a new writer.

Class and lecture guests have included Meg LeFauve (Captain Marvel, Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur), Billy Ray (Richard Jewel, Terminator: Dark Fate, Overlord, The Hunger Games, Captain Phillips, Gemini Man), Damon Lindeloff (Watchmen, Tomorrowland, The Leftovers, Lost), Sacha Gervasi (The Terminal, My Dinner with Herve, November Criminals, Anvil), Steven Canals (Writer/Producer/Director Pose), Marissa Matteo (Writer/Producer Bull), Justin Hillian (Writer/EPThe Chi, Snowfall), Felischa Marye (Writer/Producer Bigger, 13 Reasons Why), Craig Borten (The Dallas Buyers Club), Joe Manganiello (Zach Snyder’s Justice League, True Blood), Ed Solomon (Men in Black, Now You See Me, Bill and Ted), Michael Colleary (Face/Off), Nancy Oliver (Lars and the Real Girl, True Blood), Paul Haggis (Crash, Quantum of Solace, Walker), Dan Futterman (Capote), Scott Kosar (The Machinist, The Haunting of Hill House, The Crazies, The Amityville Horror), Tom O’Connor (Writer/EP The Courier, The Hitman’s Bodyguard,The Hitman’s Bodyguard’s Wife), Joan Wai (Director of Nicholl Fellowhips in Screenwriting), Jeanne Mau (Senior VP, Viacom CBS Global Inclusion), Liz Kelly (Disney, Manager of Creative Talent and Inclusion), Barbara Curry (The Boy Next Door, Interrogation), Nicole Riegel (Holler), Keith Sharon (Showtime, Finding Steve McQueen), Maggie Malone (Frozen II, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Moana, Zootopia, Big Hero 6), Kranti Kanade (CRD), and many agents and managers.