Consulting Services

Cheryl Dunye offers personal consulting for film projects and her clients range from professional filmmakers to students. Put her 20 plus years of filmmaking experience and industry contacts to work for you. Consultations focus on your individual experience by providing tools, options, and ideas. Cheryl is a well respected and established a film professor and certified writing coach who can help take a project from concept to script to screen.

Screenplay Consulting

After thoroughly reading and analyzing your script, we collaborate in a dynamic interchange designed to help define your story and to find the best way to bring it to the page. Screenplay Consulting services include:

- Creative brainstorming
- Screenplay Development
- Script Analysis and Coverage

Directorial Consulting

Actors, writers, filmmakers and film producers can receive highly customized consultation to meet their specific goals. From the big to small screen, handheld devices and the web and more, I work to provide you with the technical and aesthetic skills to keep you in charge of the overall outcome of your movie. Directorial Consulting services include:

- Script breakdown and preparation
- Working with Actors
- Floor plans and Storyboards
- Working with the Camera and Staging
- Trouble-shooting during Production
- Film Festival strategies

Workshops and Seminars

If you are in a screenwriting/filmmakers group or know 10 writers/directors in your area who would benefit and have interest in a workshop or seminar, Cheryl is available to teach customized workshops. Her lectures are engaging, informative, hands-on, and provide results. She will motivate, remove years of blockage and work with your internal rhythm to strategize and inspire you towards a powerful creation for the page or screen.

2-day offerings are:
- Script to Screen: From Short Film to Film Festival
- Directing Principles
- Screenwriting
- Keeping it Real (Reel): Creating Strong Queer, Race, or Gender Based Script and Movies

Rates

Please contact us with specific details of your project, timeline, availability, and budget. The rate for each consult will vary depending on client needs.