
GPP/ATLFS present The PA Academy - Spring 2025
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

Soup To Nuts: The Ideation, Production and Promotion of a Short Film
Do you have an idea for a short film? Great! Where does one even begin? And when it’s all finished and you want to relax, there’s still more to do! This workshop hopes to give you the appetite to get started and see it through to the end.

GPP/ATLFS present The PA Academy - Summer 2025
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

Cinematography: Establishing and Executing the Vision
The role of Director of Photography can be described as a marriage, or intersection, between the technical and creative. In this course, we will examine the aggregate process of establishing and executing the visual aesthetic of a film, explore various tips and tricks to keep in your cinematographic toolbox, consider the means of communicating with a director — meeting a director halfway to find the language that you both can understand, and more.

Cinema 101: A Journey Through the History of Film
Step into the world of cinema and explore its rich history, groundbreaking movements, and iconic creators. Whether you’re a film enthusiast, aspiring critic, or industry professional seeking fresh insights, this is your ticket to understanding how cinema has shaped—and been shaped by—the world.

Intro to Costumes for Film and Television
In this workshop, we will dive into the world of Costumes for Film and Television by learning the importance of the various roles within the Costume Department, exploring how characters are developed through Costume Design, the importance of conducting accurate period research, and the fundamental skills necessary to be a Costumer.

GPP/ATLFS present The PA Academy - Winter 2025
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

Voiceover 101: How to Talk for a Living (and Not Spend Your Life Savings)
Ready to talk your way into a new career? This workshop will teach you everything you need to know to get started in the voiceover biz without dropping a fortune on fancy equipment. From setting up a budget-friendly home studio to mastering the Art of the Demo that’ll make agents say, “Where have you been all my life?”— this workshop covers it all.

GPP/ATLFS present The PA Academy - Fall 2024
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

Improv For Writers
A brilliant writer knows how to create exciting scenes in a manner that captivates both script readers and viewers. Improvisation techniques can enhance that creativity, leading to fresh material for comedic and dramatic stories and everything in between. In this two-day workshop, writers participate in guided team exercises (including improv games) and experiment with various practical approaches to produce ideas that could help build a script. The collaborative environment not only generates content but can also enhance self-confidence. Overnight, you write a couple of new pages, and the next day you see a script-in-hand staged reading of your improv-inspired scene.

Short Films 101 with Kathy Berardi (Online Course)
Taught online as a 4-part series, Kathy Berardi is offering a October 2024 workshop in which attendees will receive A to Z guidance on how to successfully write, produce and direct a short film.

The Screenwriting Series With Kathy Berardi (Online Course)
The Screenwriting Series is an online course for writers who are new to screenwriting. The series, taught by Kathy Berardi, an independent writer-producer and UCLA MFA Screenwriting alum, embraces the philosophy of learning by doing. The 4-week Hollywood-style class helps students get into a collaborative mindset to learn the art of storytelling and technical essentials required for professional screenplays. Beyond receiving instruction and step by step how-to advice in each webinar, students will be motivated and encouraged to jump right into writing by collaborating with the instructor and each other with creative brainstorms, process and content critiques, and online discussion.

GPP/ATLFS present The PA Academy - Summer 2024
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

GPP/ATLFS present The PA Academy - Spring 2024
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

GPP/ATLFS present The PA Academy - Winter 2024
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.
GPP/ATLFS present The PA Academy - Fall 2023
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

Short Films 101 with Kathy Berardi (Online Course)
Taught online as a 4-part series, Kathy Berardi is offering a November 2023 workshop in which attendees will receive A to Z guidance on how to successfully write, produce and direct a short film.

The Screenwriting Series with Kathy Berardi (Online Course)
The 4-week Hollywood-style class helps students get into a collaborative mindset to learn the art of storytelling and technical essentials required for professional screenplays.

GPP/ATLFS present The PA Academy - Summer 2023
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

Short Films 101 with Kathy Berardi (Online Course)
Taught online as a 4-part series, Kathy Berardi is offering a July 2023 workshop in which attendees will receive A to Z guidance on how to successfully write, produce and direct a short film.

GPP/ATLFS present The PA Academy - Spring 2023
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

The Screenwriting Series with Kathy Berardi (Online Course)
The 4-week Hollywood-style class helps students get into a collaborative mindset to learn the art of storytelling and technical essentials required for professional screenplays.
GPP/ATLFS present The VIRTUAL PA Academy - Winter 2023
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.
GPP/ATLFS present The VIRTUAL PA Academy - Fall 2022
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

Short Films 101 with Kathy Berardi (Online Course)
Taught online as a 4-part series, Kathy Berardi is offering a November 2022 workshop in which attendees will receive A to Z guidance on how to successfully write, produce and direct a short film.

The Screenwriting Series with Kathy Berardi (Online Course)
The 4-week Hollywood-style class helps students get into a collaborative mindset to learn the art of storytelling and technical essentials required for professional screenplays.
GPP/ATLFS present The VIRTUAL PA Academy - Summer 2022
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

Short Films 101 with Kathy Berardi (Online Course)
Taught online as a 4-part series, Kathy Berardi is offering a July 2022 workshop in which attendees will receive A to Z guidance on how to successfully write, produce and direct a short film.
GPP/ATLFS present The VIRTUAL PA Academy - Spring 2022
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

The Screenwriting Series with Kathy Berardi (Online Course)
The 4-week Hollywood-style class helps students get into a collaborative mindset to learn the art of storytelling and technical essentials required for professional screenplays.
GPP/ATLFS present The VIRTUAL PA Academy - Winter 2022
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.

Writer’s Series: Creating Memorable Characters
Experiencing art is about experiencing life and vice versa. Open to actors, writers and directors, this class will push you to look at creating characters that come alive to the people that go on the journey with you. Characters that change the world.
GPP/ATLFS present The VIRTUAL PA Academy - Fall 2021
Start your career or improve upon your current skills in the industry with advanced knowledge. The PA Academy shows you what it takes to succeed while preparing you for your first day on set or your transition from a dayplayer to a core crew member.