Film & TV Scriptwriting Private Sessions on Zoom
For more information and registration please e-mail Elana at goldenelana@gmail.com or call: +1.323.350.4650
Writing a script for a feature film or a TV series is a fascinating endeavor. It is also a rigorous process that requires both creative imagination and skill. Often it can become lonely, and at times, elusive. Having another pair of eyes and ears by your side will keep you moving when you think you don’t have one more cohesive sentence in you.
Whether you have only an idea, a few pages written, or a first draft that needs work, I will share with you my knowledge, experience, and intuition to support you in writing the script you yearn to write. Our sessions will be confidential and safe so you can explore deeply, make mistakes, be ridiculous, original, and brilliant. This will allow for the true gold of your talent to shine.
As you merge the triangle of character, plot, and theme, weaving together subtext, visual detail, and dialogue, your story will come to life within a dramatic structure in a script with archetypal depth. When you write “The End,” you will be amazed by the script you have produced. A script that matters!
HOW IT WORKS (for both feature films & TV series)
- We meet once a week or twice a month in sessions of 3 hours on Zoom—your choice.
- In our first session, we view together a feature film and analyze the 3-act structure principal and how the characters confront obstacles and change as they achieve (or not achieve) their goal.
- We break down your script into acts and discuss the world of the story, the dramatic question at the heart of your script, the deeper needs and behavior of your characters, the story’s twists and turns, subtext and theme, and how best to express it all cinematically.
- We start each session with a 5-minute meditation to open up to creativity and imagination.
- In between sessions you write pages on your own.
- I read your pages ahead of our next session and when we meet we go over them scene by scene, line by line.
- If you’re writing a TV series, I help you develop the overall trajectory of the season, break it down into episodes, write the PILOT, and prepare a proposal for the project.
- At the end of our work together, you’ll have a script for a feature film or TV series (including proposal) ready to be sent out.
*** I am also available to write, re-write, edit, or co-write a film script or TV series.
FEES
$2000 for 6 one-on-one sessions—3 hours each—on Zoom.
$950 to read your script, if you have one, and meet you for a 2-hour consultation on Zoom.
***. Fee for writing, rewriting, editing, and co-writing a script is project-dependent.
For more information and registration please e-mail Elana at goldenelana@gmail.com or call: +1.323.350.4650
Films & TV Series that Have Inspired Me Over the Years

WHO I AM
After working on 40 feature films as script supervisor and film consultant in New York and Los Angeles for 20 years, and after training as a director at the Beverly Hills Playhouse for three years, I founded “The Writing Studio”—a Los Angeles based school for creative writing and screenwriting in 2000. Since then I have taught thousands of classes, workshops, and private sessions to hundreds of writers from around the world, coaching them on scripts for film and TV series, novels, memoirs, and short stories.
My own scripts always position personal stories against a historical/sociopolitical background. My latest, The Weaver of Bucharest—a female driven World War II drama—was selected to be workshopped at DreamAgo, a Sundance-like film institute in Switzerland. I have a BFA from the New York University Film School where I wrote and directed an award-winning short film The Open Window and an MA in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica, California. I am a human-rights activist and have been studying eastern philosophies and practicing meditation for over three decades.
Fusing my education with my professional experience and spiritual insights, I developed a unique method for coaching script writing.
I look forward to working with you!
Sincerely yours,
Elana Golden
Los Angeles, CA
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Films & TV Series that Have Inspired Me Over the Years

For more information and registration please e-mail Elana at goldenelana@gmail.com or call: +1.323.350.4650