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Feb 24 2025 Online Event: Playwriting to Screenwriting

by | Jan 29, 2025 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

An online discussion with playwrights turned screenwriters.

Feb 18 2025 Online Event: Showrunner Susin Nielsen

by | Jan 20, 2025 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

Showrunner Susin Nielsen (FAMILY LAW) in conversation with Ken Craw.

Dec 10 Online Event: Writing Features for Television

by | Nov 18, 2024 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

An online discussion featuring three local MOW screenwriters

2025 Scripted Series Lab Online Info Session

by | Jun 5, 2024 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

An updated online info session about the full-time 15-week program that runs from January through April 2025.

Online Event: Audience Metrics & TV Writers

by | Feb 27, 2024 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

Showrunner Jennica Harper leads this conversation about audience viewing data and why it matters to TV writers.

ISL 2024 Online Info Night Feb 12, 2024

by | Feb 26, 2024 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

Indigenous Screenwriters Lab info session

SSL 2024 Online Info Night July 20, 2023

by | Jun 21, 2023 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

Scripted Series Lab online info night on Thursday, July 20, 2023. 7-8 pm PT.

Public PSP Panel: First Jobs in the Writers’ Room

by | Mar 1, 2022 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

Learn what each of the writers' room support staff is responsible for, how to approach landing one of these jobs and how to set yourself up for success.

PSP Industry Panel: Literary Managers’ Panel

by | Mar 1, 2022 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

For a new writer, having a literary manager can be incredibly beneficial. While agents are more deal-oriented, managers are typically more career oriented. They are...

Jennifer Whalen Q&A

by | Jan 14, 2021 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

Jennifer Whalen is a writer, actor, improviser, showrunner and producer. Jennifer can be seen on CBC/IFC’s Baroness von Sketch as a co-creator, executive producer,...

Elan Mastai Q&A

by | Nov 27, 2020 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

Elan Mastai is currently a writer and supervising producer on the Emmy-winning hit TV series THIS IS US. He won the Canadian Screen Award and the WGC Award for his...

Q&A with Shebli Zarghami

by | May 25, 2020 | Recorded Events | 0 Comments

A Q&A session with Shebli Zarghami

Q&A with Shelley Eriksen

by | May 25, 2020 | Recorded Events,Uncategorized | 0 Comments

A Q&A session with Shelley Eriksen.

Past

Inkdrinks Vancouver: 22 Jan 2025

by | Oct 28, 2024 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Join us for a drink at our next community event in collaboration with inkCanada.

Oct 22nd Event: Showrunner Michael Konyves

by | Oct 10, 2024 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Join us in person for an event featuring showrunner Michael Konyves (WILD CARDS, BAD BLOOD)

Inkdrinks Vancouver: 11 Sept 2024

by | Jul 18, 2024 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Join us for a drink at our next community event in collaboration with inkCanada.

PSP Hosts inkdrinks Vancouver on June 19, 2024

by | Jun 4, 2024 | Past Events | 0 Comments

In collaboration with inkcanada, the PSP is reviving the screenwriting social night: inkdrinks Vancouver!

Nov 22nd: Showrunners Mark Ellis & Stephanie Morgenstern

by | Oct 27, 2023 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Join us in person for a conversation with award-winning showrunning team Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern.

Spotlight on The Porter: Authentic Storytelling

by | Feb 2, 2022 | Past Events | 0 Comments

The Porter (CBC, BET+) is set in the Black community of St. Antoine, Montreal in the 1920s. The series follows an ensemble of characters who hustle, dream, cross...

VIFF Talks: Yellowjackets Co-Creators Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson

by | Jan 18, 2022 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Yellowjackets (Showtime, Crave) has been seen by over 4 million viewers since its November 14, 2021 debut. The show picked up a Critics’ Choice nomination for ’Best...

John Wells, Creator of Shameless

by | Feb 8, 2021 | Past Events | 0 Comments

The PSP is proud to support VIFF's Creator Talk with John Wells, Creator/Executive Producer of Shameless. February 18, 6pm PST (Livestreamed on VIFF Connect)  For More Information & Tickets: http://goviff.org/ct-shameless

Co-Creators of The Great North

by | Feb 8, 2021 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Join showrunners Wendy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin as they take us for a deep dive into writing and creating an animated tv series – from envisioning the town of Lone Moose, stocking it with eccentric residents to casting the superb vocal talents. Tickets: http://goviff.org/ct-the-great-north

Diversity and Inclusion Workshop For Storytellers in Media

by | Jan 21, 2021 | Past Events | 0 Comments

4 hours of training tailored to the needs of storytellers in media. Feb 17, 10am -12pm PT and Feb 24, 10am -12pm PT 

An Evening with TV Writer/ Producer Maggie Bandur

by | Jan 28, 2020 | Past Events | 0 Comments

A great evening was had by all last Saturday at our Q&A event with Maggie Bandur. (Malcolm in the Middle, Community, Galivant, Deadly Class) We would like to thank...

Thank you to everyone who attended our sold out event with Jem Garrard!

by | Jan 16, 2020 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Jem Garrard is the creator and showrunner of the space opera, Vagrant Queen, for SYFY.

A Wonderful Q&A With Amy and Tassie Cameron

by | Nov 22, 2019 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Thank you to everyone who attended our sold out Q&A with Amy and Tassie Cameron! For those of you who weren't able to attend, here are a few of the questions they...

Pearls of Wisdom from LA TV Exec and Pitching Coach, Carole Kirschner

by | Oct 19, 2019 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Your work has to be blazingly good, not just really good or great. How do you know if your work is blazing? Your phone should be ringing off the hook.

VIFF Meet the Showrunners Talk

by | Oct 8, 2019 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Sera Gamble (You), Alexandra Cunningham (Dirty John), Gloria Calderon Kellet (One Day at a Time), Jami O'Brien (NOS4A2) and Jennica Harper (Jann) all arrived with plenty of humor and wisdom to share.

A Packed House for Visiting Showrunner, Martin Gero

by | Sep 18, 2019 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Our PSP Director, Raila Gutman, introducing Showrunner Martin Gero and Interviewer, local writer and VFS prof, Kat Montagu. "There's no right way to [get into a room]....

Scripted Series 2020 Info Night

by | Jul 18, 2019 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Please email us with your questions if you weren't able to attend last night's event! Also, be sure to sign up to our mailing list if you haven't already. We plan to hold an online info session later in the summer. (Details still to come.) The application window for our 15 week 2020 Scripted Lab is open until September 1, 2019. Please have a look through our SSL FAQ page and send in your original TV pilot script!

Thank you Rob

by | Jan 30, 2019 | Past Events | 0 Comments

Thank You to Showrunner and Executive Producer, Robert C Cooper. We would like to send a big thank you to Rob for his Q&A event. It was a sold-out show! Rob’s...

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