• Screenwriting theory (8 ECTS)
• Script analysis and project evaluation (8 ECTS)
• Writing techniques for audiovisual products: (12 ECTS)
  • Screenwriting practice: treatments, scenes and dialogues, scripts, pitches
  • The writing of genres and adaptation.
    Writing for different formats: comic books, novels, documentaries, entertainment TV shows, advertising, the web, mobile media, and transmedia projects
  • Screenwriting and production of animation projects
• The audiovisual industry: (4 ECTS)
  • Industries and audiences
  • TV acquisition and programming and film distribution
  • The physical production: pre-production, shooting, post-production, contracts and budgeting
• Communication ethics (4 ECTS)
• Workshop and practical exercises (8 ECTS)
• Final project (16 ECTS)

 

Final Project

Three months before the end of theoretical classes, students will be required to choose between one of the following careers:

• Screenwriting (students will present a script for a feature film or a TV pilot)
• Production (students will undertake an internship on a film/TV series shooting)

 

Teachers and tutors of the final projects

• Marco ALESSI, screenwriter (Elisa di Rivombrosa, Rino Gaetano, Immaturi) and producer (Tahrir, Atlantide, Disco Boy)
• Robert AMIDON, executive producer, Atlas Entertainment (Triple Frontier, What/If, Mercy)
• Francesco ARLANCH, screenwriter (Doc – Nelle tue mani, Blanca, Chiaroscuro)
• Renata AVIDANO, story editor and screenwriter (La strana coppia, Cosi fan tutte, Before Pintus)
• Francesco BALLETTA, screenwriter (Ris, Alfredino, Wonder Boys)
• Deborah BELFORD DE FURIA, script consultant Colorado, Hollywood Gang, Medusa
• Adam BERNSTEIN, Tv director, Emmy winner (30 Rock, Fargo, Breaking Bad)
• Paolo BRAGA, professor Università Cattolica and screenwriter  (Jules Verne)
• Andrea BRUSA, writer and director (Magic Alps, Inverno, Le voci sole)
• Elena BUCACCIO, head of Tv drama, Lux vide and screenwriter (Che Dio ci aiuti, Buongiorno mamma!, Hotel Costiera)
• Bobette BUSTER, script consultant, Los Angeles, and professor at NorthEastern University, Boston, Pixar Animation Studios, etc.
• Gianfranco CORDARA, SVP Crunchyroll, Los Angeles
• Lucia CEREDA, head of development, Medusa
• Laura COTTA RAMOSINO,  TV series development executive, Cattleya (Nero a metà, Tutto può succedere, Circeo)
• Luisa COTTA RAMOSINO, Director, Original Series, Netflix Italy
• Jennifer DORNBUSH, screenwriter and author, Los Angeles
• Ryan DORNBUSH, VP and Director, Operations and HR, Alcon Entertainment, Los Angeles
• Armando FUMAGALLI, professor, Università Cattolica, script consultant for Lux vide
• Jordi GASULL, screenwriter and producer, Madrid (Lope, Tadeo Jones, Atrapa la bandera /Capture the Flag, Mummies)
• Giorgio GRIGNAFFINI, General Manager Taodue
• Nadia GRIPPIOLO, producer (Alex & Co., Come diventare grandi nonostante I genitori, Marta e Eva)
• Laurie HUTZLER, script consultant (In the Valley of Elah, Tsotsi)
• Steve KAPLAN, script consultant and founder HBO New Writing Program
• Francesca LONGARDI, producer Cattleya (Io non ho paura, Benvenuti al Sud, Summertime, Petra)
• Luca MANZI, screenwriter and creative producer (Don Matteo, Boris)
• Emanuele MARCHESI, head of development, Sky Originals Italy
• Jeff MELVOIN, showrunner (Northern Exposure, Alias, Designated Survivor, Killing Eve)
• Carlo MICCICHE', Director, Osservatorio Editoriale, Mediaset
• Erica NEGRI, Head of Commissioning, Scripted Production, Sky Originals, Italy
• Gennaro NUNZIANTE, screenwriter and director (Sole a catinelle, Quo vado, Il vegetale, Buen Camino)
• Paolo PAGGETTA, Coordinator Pay and Svod Department, Mediaset
• Alberto PASQUALE, Film Business University Lecturer
• Mara PERBELLINI, screenwriter (La vita che corre, Penny on MARS, Marta e Eva)
• Erminio PEROCCO, copywriter (commercials Telecom, Lavazza) and advertising director (Crodino)
• Miranda PISIONE, screenwriter and lecturer
• Valentina POZZOLI, head of development, Onza Partners, Madrid
• Eleonora RECALCATI, story editor and screenwriter (Che Dio ci aiuti, Maggie e Bianca Fashion Friends, Marta e Eva)
• Mario RUGGERI, screenwriter (Don Matteo, Un passo dal cielo, Devils, Blanca)
• Maurizio SANGALLI, screenwriter (Love Bugs, Il mammo, Casa e bottega).
• Paolo SIGISMONDI, professor Global Entertainment, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
• Lea TAFURI, screenwriter (Coco Chanel, Chiara Lubich, Alda Merini)
• John TRUBY, head of Truby Writers Studio, Los Angeles
• Andrea VALAGUSSA, screenwriter (Fino all’ultimo battito, Belcanto, L’altro ispettore)
• Gaia VIOLO, Screenwriter (Blood & Treasure, Star Trek), and creator (Absentia, In From the Cold), Los Angeles
• Nicholas WEINSTOCK, producer Invention Films (Severance, Escape at Dannemora, Thelma)
• John WILLIAMS, Cinema writer and director, professor at Sophia University, Tokyo
• Fabrizio ZAPPI, Director, Rai Cultura

 

Special lecturers

• Eleonora ANDREATTA, Vice President, Original Content, Netflix Italy
• Giorgio ASSUMMA, Lawyer, President Fondazione Perseus
• Luca BARBARESCHI, actor, producer and director (Adriano Olivetti, Something Good, J’Accuse)
• Luca BERNABEI, Producer (Medici - Masters of Florence, Doc, Leonardo, Sandokan)
• Massimo BRUNO, Director DeAKids Channels
• Valentina CAMBI, Freelance Writer and Editorial Coordinator (Disney Publishing, Rai-Eri, Piemme, etc.)
• Elisabetta DAMI, creator & writer (Geronimo Stilton)
• Alessandro D'AVENIA, novelist and screenwriter (Bianca come il latte rossa come il sangue, Ciò che inferno non è, L’arte di essere fragili)
• Paolo DEL BROCCO, ceo Raicinema
• Ilaria GOMARASCA, head of First Cut +, Film Festival Consultant, Paris
• Giulia ICHINO, publishing editor Bompiani, Giunti Publishing Group
• Silvia MARTINOLI, author Disney publishing and journalist for Topolino
• Jaime ONDARZA, ceo Boomerang Tv, Madrid
• Carlotta QUATTROCOLO, Executive Editor, Global Magazines, Disney
• Maria RODRIGUEZ RABADAN, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
• Marilena ROSSI, director of Italian fiction, Mondadori
• Paola RUGGERI, International Tv Marketing Analyst, Mediaset
• Andrea SCROSATI, ceo Fremantle Europe
• Antonio STEFANUCCI, line producer (La piovra, Ris, Volare, Ognuno è perfetto)
• Alessandro USAI, producer and president ANICA
• David ZANNONI, Zannoni Media Consulting, Mexico
• Michele ZATTA, producer Raifiction (Mare fuori, Il cacciatore, Sandokan)

 

Teachers of the animation workshop

• Alfio BASTIANCHICH, head of animation, Showlab
• Andrea BOZZETTO, director (Topo Tip)
• Robin LYONS, screenwriter and producer, Calon, Cardiff - UK (Hana’s Helpline, YoYo)
• Evelina POGGI, producer, Lynx Multimedia Factory (Bartali’s Bicycle)
• Margherita PREMUROSO, animator and director, Milan and London
• Silvia RIGOTTO, executive producer, script consultant and agent (Rigotz Stories)
• Giorgio SCORZA, producer and director  (Strappare lungo I bordi)
• Maurizia SERENI, head of development Movimenti

 

Teachers of the workshop “Writing the musical”

• Philip LAZEBNIK, Screenwriter (Mulan, Pocahontas, The Prince of Egypt)
• Pippa CLEARY, author and musician, London (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, The Great British Bake Off Musical)
• Ronald KRUSCHAK, screenwriter and producer, Germany (Snow White and Me, A Little Peace)

The Misp is characterized by the extremely high percentage of alumni that work successfully as writers or producers in the audiovisual industry: they have been authors of thousands of hours of prime time TV series and a good number of feature films, many of them highly successful and/or with a big International impact.

 

Clara Dufay - class of 2023

After completing a degree in Political Science in Paris, Clara attended MISP 2022-2023. She has been a development assistant intern at Federation Studios -an international TV studio based in Paris-, and at Disney France. She has worked as a writing coordinator for a  French TV show for the European channel ARTE.  She is now working in the development department of the production company Montmartre Films in Paris.

"MISP gave me a chance to finally follow my passion. Thanks to this program, I was able to confidently take my first steps into the industry with a strong foundation in screenwriting and story editing and a good knowledge of the International entertainment field. But most of all, I had the opportunity to meet many inspiring professionals and classmates from all over the world." 

 

Claudia Munarin - class of 2019

While completing the Master Program, Claudia started an internship in Rome at Cattleya, one of the most important Italian production companies, becoming story editor and working on the shooting set of a Tv series for Rai Uno. Today she works in Milan, at Sky Italia, in the development of Sky Originals Tv Series (“Hanno ucciso l’uomo ragno”. “Call My Agent – Italia” etc.)

"I have always been passionate about cinema and TV series and I decided to take part in the MISP because I wanted to find out if this passion could also become a profession. And so it did. After loving the what, I learned to love the how." 

 

Amanda Devine, Writer and development executive - class of 2017

With a degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, she attended the Misp in 2016-2017. She has written on two seasons of the Disney Channel series Penny on MARS, with MIsp alumna and professor Mara Perbellini. Currently she works as a Tv writer and development executive at Novo Inspire Studios, a Los Angeles-based production company (A Tale Dark & Grimm, for Netflix, Monster Summmer, starring Mel Gibson).

“The Masters Program gave me a firm foundation in story structure and character development, which is critical no matter where you end up in the entertainment field”.

 

Edoardo Gino, Creative producer for Lux vide - class of 2015

Edoardo Gino is currently working in Lux vide, as creative producer for TV series (Un passo dal cielo, Devils, Doc- Nelle tue mani, Sandokan, etc.)

“I entered the MISP with two things: a passion for writing, and the dream to make a living out of it. Just a few months after the end of the program, my dream had become a concrete reality. You need your 3% of talent on your own, but if you want to learn the 97% of technique and persistence that you need to write a great  story, the MISP is your place to be.”

 

Alessandro D'Avenia, Writer - class of 2007

His first novel (Bianca come il latte rossa come il sangue, 2010), has sold more than one million copies in Italy, has been  published in more than 20 countries, and has been adapted into a feature film. His following books (Cose che nessuno sa, Ciò che inferno non è, L’arte di essere fragili, Ogni storia è una storia d’amore, L’appello, Resisti cuore) have been similarly in the best seller list of their year and three of them have become theatre plays. He writes a weekly column in the main Italian newspaper, Il Corriere della sera.

“I write to know how it is going to end”.

 

Francesco Arlanch Screenwriter (class of 2000)

Author of more than twenty TV miniseries for RAI (National Italian Broadcaster), most of them among the top rating shows of the year. Author also of many episodes of top-rating TV series, two feature films, and some animation series. A good number of them have been broadcasted in many countries of the world (for ex. John Paul II, starring Jon Voight, coproduction with CBS, Anna Karenina, Sant'Agostino, etc.). He is among the authors of the second and third season of Medici. Masters of Florence, coproduction between Rai and Netflix, and co-head writer of two other big International successes of recent years: Doc – Nelle tue mani and Blanca. Both of them have been sold to many countries, and Doc has been very successfully remade in US for Fox.

“Years ago I attended this Master’s Program as a pastime activity (at that time it only lasted a few months). Today I make a living from what I learned in those few months and I’ve fulfilled a dream that before I didn’t even dare to nurture: to write for the screen. This Masters Program can change your life.”

The alumni of the MISP have been writers, story editors, creative producers and in some cases directors of more than 2.500 hours of feature films and/or prime time Televisions and/or Tv series broadcasted in the main International platforms like Netflix, Amazon, DisneyPlus, etc.

Some of the alumni have reached very high positions as head of development of production companies or executive positions in high profile commissioners, like Luisa Cotta Ramosino, Director of Tv series for Netflix Italy, or Erica Negri, head of Commissioning for Sky Original Tv series Italy.

Only in 2025, and only in Italy, MISP alumni have been writers, creative producers, story editors or directors of more than 25 different Tv series (Belcanto, Blanca, Call My Agent Italia, Che Dio ci aiuti, Hotel Costiera, Il Gattopardo, Sandokan and many others) broadcasted in the main Italian channels or platforms like Netflix and Amazon, and of 6 feature films released in theaters or the two main platforms just mentioned. In some cases, up to 11 alumni have been working in different roles (headwriters, writers of episodes, creative producers, etc.) in just one Tv series.

Short films written, directed and/or produced by Misp’s alumni have been winning awards all over the world, including Emmy Student Award, Venice Film Festival and David di Donatello.

Other alumni have been working on advertising or as theatre play authors or as production assistants, or assistant directors in many films or TV series.

Others have been working as authors for comics (Disney Publishing, ReNoir, Manga Vibe), or in tv channels or networks (Italia 1, Rete 4, Canale 5, Sky Cinema, Lei tv, Discovery), or in production or distribution companies or in specialized press (Best Movie, Box office) or publishing companies (Mondadori, Rizzoli, Il Castoro).

In the area of novels, the alumni of MISP have been authors, among others, of international best-sellers like Bianca come il latte rossa come il sangue, published in more than twenty countries; and some series of novels for  young girls like Leila blue and Aria (both series for Mondadori), which have been also published in many countries. Only in 2024 and 2025 around twenty  novels have been published by our alumni, with some of the top Italian publishing companies like De Agostini, Mondadori, Piemme, Rizzoli, etc.

Graduates from the MISP are exposed to a wide range of career opportunities. Graduates have both the theoretical knowledge and the methodological tools suited to pursue professional and managerial careers as:

• Screenwriters or creative producers of television series and feature films;
• Authors of TV entertainment programs and documentaries, copywriters, creators of video games and web series, writers of comic books and novels and fiction editors in publishing companies;
• Story editors and script consultants;
• Supervisors of evaluation, acquisition and programming of TV shows;
• Professionals working in different areas of the television and film industry (physical production, distribution, acquisition, product placement, etc.)

Classes begin on 22 September 2026 and end by 28 May 2027.

Classes are scheduled from Tuesday to Friday, 4 days a week on campus (10.00 AM - 5.30 PM). A break of 3 weeks will be scheduled during Christmas time.

Attendance is mandatory. In order to graduate, a minimum of 90% attendance is required.

The graduation is expected at the end of November 2027.

International students can join Italian language courses offered by SELDA (Servizio Linguistico d’Ateneo). These courses require a fee.

To contact SELDA:

• Use the “Request for Information” form on the iCatt homepage
• Or email: selda.lingueper@unicatt.it