giving a voice to those who served

The next VFF Program (currently anticipated to  begin in February 2023) is hosted both in person at New York University’s Department of Dramatic Writing, and remotely to interested veterans nationwide.

The program  provides a  series of free lectures and discussions on filmmaking and screenwriting. These weekly lectures cover both the fundamentals of screenwriting and a survey of the 

collaborative roles of filmmaking.    

The VFF Program provides a supportive environment under which VFF participants can begin to formulate and outline a 

feature-length screenplay of their own.

VFF participants also gain a fundamental understanding of the various collaborative functions necessary to bring a script to screen, and the career paths available to veterans in the film and tv industries.     

Future versions of the program progress to a completed feature-length script and, eventually, to a hands-on filmmaking course where participants write, direct, produce, and edit short films of their own.

*** The VFF Program is a cursory, introductory, program not intended for Veterans who have already received a formal or informal introduction 

to the fundamentals of filmmaking or screenwriting.   

The VFF Program Curriculum will consist of:  

-- A fundamental education in the art and craft of screenwriting, 

from ideation and premise, to plot structure, character development, 

scene development, dialogue, etc.

-- A survey of the essential and collaborative roles of filmmaking, including, but not limited to, writing, development, pre-production, 

directing, cinematography, line producing, sound, 

set design, editing, and post-production.