giving a voice to those who served

The Inaugural VFF Program (still under development) is anticipated to run remotely from  Sept - Dec 2022 and will provide a  series of free lectures and discussions on filmmaking and screenwriting. 

These weekly lectures will cover both the fundamentals of screenwriting 

and a survey of the collaborative roles of filmmaking.    

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

feature-length screenplay of their own.

VFF participants will 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 would 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.