Real Life into Reel Life, Your Truth in Script Form

Asha Michelle Wilson, Writer/Producer/Actor/Showrunner

Join the event on YouTube Live on March 4th at 5:30pm with this link:

Link:https://youtube.com/live/rKZH5HqpN2c?feature=share 

Co-hosted by Assistant Professor-in-Residence Catherine Masud, and Digital Media & Design students Ernest Lowe and Adam Gonzalez; Event Producer: Musawir Abrar

About the Topic:

The most common advice given to writers is "write what you know." Determining how much of that should be in your script is a different story. This discussion will focus on how to bring your authentic and diverse POV to the script and screen, while maintaining story, comedy, and character. It will also speak to how to keep reality alive when writing genre television (animation, horror, sci-fi), and how to know when a truth from real life, might not fit into the reel life that's been created.

About the Speaker: 

ASHA MICHELLE WILSON is a writer currently in development on series with Sony TV and 20th Century Fox, as well as being Co-Executive Producer on the Fox animated series The Great North. She has previously developed with and written on series for Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, and FX, including American Horror Story and Archer. Her short film Friends Like These won the London Shorts Festival, and she was listed as one of BET’s Six Black Female Showrunners Who Inspired TV’s Diverse Renaissance.

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This event is brought to you by UConn’s Department of Digital Media & Design in partnership with UConn’s Africana Studies Institute

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