FilmDayton is proud to bring back Marisha Mukerjee to teach a “Mini-Master Class” on pilot script writing. Ms. Mukerjee was a FilmDayton board member and helped produce the first FilmDayton Festival in 2009 before she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her writing career.

Growing up in a dual religion household as a first generation American, Marisha aims to bridge the cultural divide through compelling characters and storytelling. She holds a Bacherlors of Arts in Art History from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and a Masters in Writing from Northwestern University focused on Screen and Stage. She co-produced the feature film The Grind as well as countless festival clad shorts. She is the co-founder of Relief Productions Theater Group and Madrina Films, where she has produced and directed various theatrical productions and short films during her eight years in Europe and India. While in Chicago, her play about the life of Thomas Paine was featured in a reading at the Goodman Theater. Her short film Open House, which she directed, was the 2015 LA Film Festival Short Comedy Winner. The award led her to direct the Funny or Die film It Knows.

Marisha has worked on the productions of Copper on BBCA (Cineflix Studios) and Justified on FX. Marisha’s writer credits include the critically acclaimed FX series The Bridge, the NBC series Heroes Reborn, Quantico on ABC, and currently Titans for D.C. Comics. Recently her serialized crime show AGAIN, set in India, was picked up by Netflix. She splits her time between Los Angeles and India.

Ideal Candidates for this workshop will be working on drama/dramedy based tv shows who have a script – or at least a partial script started. Class attendees will send in their script, or at least the first 10 pages with a synopsis for Ms. Murkerjee to read prior to the first class session.

The first morning of class will focus on structure and writing tips, then will break into groups to work on what is missing, then back together to talk about what the pitch should look like, how to sell your script and more. You’ll leave with notes to work on revisions and by the end of the Second Saturday you’ll leave with a revised script.

Industry guest speakers and writers will address the class, both in person and by Skype

Classes: Sat & Sun July 28 & 29 from 9am-5pm and again on Sat, Aug 4th from 9am – 5pm. Limited to just 20 attendees!
Registration for FilmDayton members is $175 and $225 for nonmembers.