Karen McClellan

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (PRWEB)
November 18, 2021
The Pacific Screenwriting Method (PSP) is enthusiastic to announce that award-profitable writer Karen McClellan will provide as Showrunner-in-Residence for the 2022 Scripted Sequence Lab. Starting in January 2022, McClellan will mentor 6 up-and-coming BC-dependent screenwriters as they establish her initial collection in the PSP’s flagship coaching system.
Now in its fourth yr, the Scripted Sequence Lab combines real-world story place expertise, mentorship, workshops and details classes to equip writers with the competencies, encounter and connections required to create a sustainable job in the province’s dynamic display screen-based mostly market. The PSP is a collaboration among Netflix, Canadian Media Producers Affiliation, the Writer’s Guild of Canada and Resourceful BC.
“We are so really lucky to have Karen McLellan as our mentor Showrunner this calendar year,” affirmed PSP President, Brian Hamilton. “Her deep encounter as a writer and producer of various worldwide hits throughout varied genres provides her the perfect qualifications for this position. Karen shares our passion for producing community new voices and has never forgotten what it’s like to be setting up out on the highway to creating a screenwriting occupation.”
An award-successful writer, Karen McLellan most a short while ago served as Executive Producer and Co-Showrunner of The Following Phase, a world strike collection taking part in in in excess of 120 countries. In the course of her tenure, the fictional tween dramedy garnered several BAFTA and Canadian Screen Award nominations.
“I am honoured to be this year’s Showrunner for the Scripted Series Lab,” explained McLellan. “Programs like this and the mentorship prospect it offers is invaluable to an up-and-coming writer, so I’m genuinely psyched for the chance to get the job done with the contributors on the improvement of a new collection.”
Prior to signing up for The Upcoming Step in its fifth year, Karen co-established and executive-developed the Victoria, BC-set thriller digital series Spiral for which she gained a 2018 Writers Guild of Canada award. Her other credits deal with an array of one particular-hour and 50 percent-hour shows, together with CBC’s intercontinental hit drama Getting Erica and critically acclaimed Cracked, as effectively as CTV’s beloved comedy Robson’s Arms. A graduate of the Shaw Media Showrunner Education Software, Karen has formulated numerous assignments for Canadian and American broadcasters and generation providers.
ABOUT THE PACIFIC SCREENWRITING System
The Pacific Screenwriting Application was recognized in 2018 with the objective of constructing a vivid screenwriter group in British Columbia. Based mostly in Vancouver, the not-for-gain business presents assist and vocation-advancement alternatives to BC-based mostly movie and tv writers at all degrees, even though producing a deep and sustainable pool of area talent for BC-dependent sequence and movies. For a lot more facts: Pacific Screenwriting Plan, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
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ABOUT THE CMPA – BC PRODUCERS Department
The CMPA-BC is a trade association representing member providers throughout British Columbia engaged in the output and distribution of television courses, aspect movies, and interactive media written content. Producers are considerable employers of BC resourceful expertise and suppose the economic and imaginative hazard of producing our tales and primary information for Canadian and international audiences. CMPA associates create content for distribution on common film and tv, web and cell wi-fi platforms. For far more facts: CMPA-BC
ABOUT THE WGC
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) is a specialist affiliation of additional than 2,400 English-language screenwriters. WGC customers are the imaginative pressure driving Canada’s thriving Television set exhibits, motion pictures and electronic collection, and their do the job delivers the variety of Canadian lifetime and tradition to the world’s screens. The WGC supports Canadian screenwriters by means of negotiating and administering collective agreements with producers to assure that screenwriters gain reasonable fork out and added benefits. It also advocates for insurance policies that foster Canadian programming and creation and boosts the profile of WGC members in the sector. For much more data,
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ABOUT Inventive BC
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