One-on-One Script Consultations with Ruth Atkinson

FREE (by appointment only)
NIFCO, 40 King’s Rd., St. John’s, NL

Ruth will be offering a limited number of one-on-one private script consultations (shorts/features/treatments). To apply, email jenn@womensfilmfestival.com and include a short bio of yourself/your work. We can only select a limited number of scripts. Successful applicants only will be contacted via email.

Ruth Atkinson is a Los Angeles-based script consultant and story editor with over 20 years of experience in the film/television business. Ruth has story edited and consulted on many films that have won awards and been distributed internationally including Jonas Chernick’s My Awkward Sexual Adventure, multi-award winning short film Lil Toyko Reporter with Chris Tashima, The Perfect Family starring Kathleen Turner celebrated indie The People I’ve Slept With, Genie-nominated Who Loves the Sun starring Molly Parker and Adam Scott, and the New Zealand hit Predicament with Jemaine Clement. Ruth is also a story analyst for Screen Queensland and the Sundance Institute’s Feature Film Screenwriting and Directing Lab. She is also a screenwriting instructor and story editor for Project Involve, Film Independent’s (FIND) signature diversity program where she helps develop short film scripts which are produced and showcased at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Many have gone on to play at festivals across the country. Ruth has given seminars at The Great American Pitchfest, Screenwriters World Conference West, The Writer’s Store, On the Page Podcast and at the St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival. She is available for story editing, script consulting and screenwriting workshops and can be reached at www.ruthatkinson.com.

For more information, please visit www.womensfilmfestival.com/scene-heard/