Learn how to create a concise summary of your film’s story, emphasising the journey your film will be taking the audience on. This process has many applications, and is a particularly useful tool when fundraising.

If you are considering applying the Screen Ashford Film Script Lab , this is for you, as you will have to write a treatment for your Film idea to apply to be selected for that Lab. Deadline Sept 15th 2025.

Gabriella Apicella is a freelance screenwriter and tutor. Alongside her teaching engagements at various Higher Education Institutions and Film Schools, she works as a consultant on short and feature-length screenplays independently and on under contract for regional screen agencies and Production Companies. She has worked with BFI Future Film for ten years delivering sessions for the Film Academy as well as lectures, consultancy and workshops to participants. In 2010 she was also a co-founder of the Underwire Festival. Gabriella is currently re-drafting her latest feature project with support from Silver Salt.