Screenwriting is an essential element of the creative process.

This 12-hour course will teach you how to structure your ideas, create a personal vision and develop your narrative style. Particular attention will be paid to character validity and dialogue. Camille Trudel will give examples from their own screenwriting practice. In the 2nd part of the workshop, participants will be invited to discuss their own project.

Following this workshop, you’ll be able to better define your intentions and successfully convey them, while developing your narrative style!

Workshop is given in French but questions may be asked in English.

Material to send before February 27th 2025 to services@mainfilm.qc.ca : 

• Short descriptive note of your project
• Script draft (if available)

The Fiction cycle continues through the winter! To see the full program, please visit the Events & Workshops page. 

Camille Trudel

Ⓒ Vivien Gaumand

A graduate of the Cinéma program and now a trainer at Inis, Camille Trudel established herself as a screenwriter after her experience as a content analyst in the institutional sector, her human yet rigorous approach leading her to multiply her collaborations. In addition to offering workshops on narrative structure and the art of pitching at Cours écrire ton court, La Forge and other creative labs, Camille quickly became a sought-after script consultant in the industry, contributing to the development of numerous projects in both English and French.

Armed with this mastery of narrative, she made the leap to directing with Miette, her first short film (co-directed with Maude Bouchard). The film was selected for the Regard and Raindance festivals in 2021. In 2022, Brasier, her most recent short film as screenwriter, premiered at Regard before winning Best Screenplay at Fantasia and Best Quebec Short at Les Percéïdes. Driven by a desire to perfect her mastery of her narrative universe, she took part in the 2022 edition of Atelier Grand Nord with her feature film La Fauche. She also won the FNC-Netflix Best First Works Pitch award for Ce qui Hante Marlène, a feature-length project produced by Stéphanie Morissette (La maison de prod). She also dabbled in the serial form, co-writing the series FEM (2024).

At ease both as a solo artist and as a co-writer, Camille is currently working on the simultaneous development of four feature-length fiction films. Well-known in the industry for her sensitivity, she campaigns for better representation of minorities and articulates her work through a queer feminist lens, not hesitating to borrow bold forms such as the genre film to better achieve this.