PacificScreenwritingProgram PageHeaders 1920px Home

Welcome

The Pacific Screenwriting Program supports a vibrant screenwriter community in British Columbia by providing a training ground for BC’s aspiring and active screenwriters. Combining real-world story-room experience, mentorship, bootcamps, workshops and information sessions, the PSP equips writers with the skills, experience, and connections necessary to establish a sustainable career in the province’s dynamic screen industry.

News & Events

Develop BC Renewed

The PSP is pleased to announce the renewal of Develop BC, a program designed to stimulate the development of domestic IP and create work experience opportunities for emerging BC-based screenwriters, funded by Creative BC and the Province of British Columbia. Buyers...

Alums Renuka Singh (SSL 2020) & Richard Young (SSL 2026) screen films at the Tasveer Film Festival

We're celebrating the upcoming short film screenings of "Petticoat" written by Renuka Singh (SSL 2020) and "Rising Tide" written by Richard Young (SSL 2026), both at the Tasveer South Asian Film Festival in Seattle on October 16th.

Qaseem Fazal (SSL 2020) hired as writers assistant on “Scrubs” S2

Shout out to alumnus Qaseem Fazal (SSL 2020) who is currently working on "Scrubs" S2 as the local writers assistant!

Alum. Kay Metchie’s short film selected for Whistler Film Festival

Congratulations to Kay Shioma Metchie (SSL 2023) who wrote (and directed) the short film "Split Ends", which is part of the official selection for the 2026 Whistler Film Festival.

Alum. Renuka Singh adapting Korean series with Omnifilm

Renuka Singh (SSL 2020) is writing the pilot for the adaptation of the Korean tv series "The Good Detective", to be produced by Vancouver's Omnifilm Entertainment, the Korean production company SLL, and L.A.- and Seoul-based Third Culture Entertainment. Amazing news,...