Script-Storyboard-Screen: Making Your Ideas Come to Life

Join award-winning filmmaker Patrick Wimp on Monday, November 10, 2025, at 6 p.m. CT, to learn about how a documentary goes from an idea to research, writing, storyboarding, and final edit.

How do you control the narrative when the research is constantly evolving?  What happens when an interview takes you in a different direction and renders your script and storyboards obsolete? How do you know when to say “it’s done,” even when you want to keep tinkering?

Join award-winning filmmaker Patrick Wimp to learn about how a documentary goes from an idea to research, writing, storyboarding, and final edit.

Meet Your Mentor:

Patrick Wimp is an award-winning, biracial, Black American screenwriter, director, and producer from Chicago. He is a member of the Writers’ Guild of America, and his feature and short film work has been awarded in prestigious film festivals around the world, including Chicago International, Cannes International, New York Television Festival, Austin Film Festival, SeriesFest, and HBO’s Urbanworld. Patrick was the writer and director of Brothers from the Suburbs, which was sold to Warner Bros TV and HBO Max. He also recently directed the Emmy-nominated documentary Mister Abbott that aired on AMC+ in 2025. Patrick was listed as #7 on NewCity’s Chicago Film 50 in 2021 and named to the Austin Film Festival's 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2020. He has also worked as a cinematographer for A-list music artists like Jennifer Hudson, Billie Eilish, and Chance the Rapper. Patrick holds an academic appointment as an Associate Professor at the University of Iowa. 

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This program is a partnership between Lincoln Presidential Foundation and The Better Angels Society, and funded through the Amy Margerum Berg Education Fund.