Content Tabs
A standalone 2-hour session designed to help storytellers across documentary, TV, short, and feature filmmaking uncover and shape compelling ideas.
Where do great ideas for visual storytelling come from? This session explores practical techniques for generating original stories, breaking past creative blocks, and identifying ideas with strong visual potential. Through interactive exercises and analysis, participants will leave with fresh inspiration and tools to spark new projects, whether for a short film, feature, or TV series.
This session is delivered by Fateme Ahmadi, an award-winning Iranian writer-director whose films have screened at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight and Locarno and received a BIFA nomination. A Berlinale Talents alum and Film London Lodestar, she is currently developing her debut feature Daughter of Eden with BFI, BBC Film, and Screen Ireland.
- Where do great film ideas come from? Exploring sources of inspiration and fresh perspectives.
- How do you break past creative blocks? Practical techniques to spark originality.
- What makes an idea work for the screen? Understanding the leap from idea to cinematic storytelling.
- Pre-writing strategies: Feeding your brain, finding unexpected sources, and transforming raw material into compelling ideas.
- Let’s generate ideas together. Interactive exercises designed to uncover your next story.
This session is open to all storytellers, whether you are new to filmmaking or already developing projects. If you are looking for practical ways to generate fresh ideas and unlock creative inspiration, this workshop is for you.
No prior experience is required, just curiosity and a willingness to explore new approaches to storytelling!
Please fill in the application form, attaching your CV
If you need any assistance please contact us at shortcourses@nfts.co.uk or call us on 01494 677 903
Full payment (Freelance Rate) taken upon application