Revealing Your Story Piece by Piece: Exposition in Your Script

In this screenwriting session, we will talk about approaches to writing exposition, a necessary tool of visual storytelling, that can help you to avoid writing exposition that is too "obvious." Students will watch and read examples from films and shows in English and Spanish and discuss as well as write their own scenes using techniques.

About the Facilitator: 

Paloma Valenzuela is a Dominican-American, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker originally from the city of Boston. She is the creative director of the production company La Palomita Productions. She is the writer/producer/creator of the comedic web series "The Pineapple Diaries". The show was featured in the Latina Magazine's "5 Web Series Every Latinx Needs to Watch Right Now". She has received press for her work in The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Remezcla and Hip Latina. She is a 2018-2019 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Neighborhood Salon Luminary and between 2020-2021 directed an 8 episode video series for the museum called the "Luminary Lens Series". She is a 2019 City of Boston Artist Fellow as well as was chosen for the WBUR Boston’s NPR Artery 25 in 2019. In 2019 she won for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy at the Iris Dominicana Movie Awards for her role as Lolita in the Dominican film "Un 4to de Josué" which streamed on HBOMax.