April 23, 2011 – The Starter Screenplay

As a production company executive, Adam Levenberg has read nearly 3,000 screenplays sent out by major agencies. After becoming an independent consultant, he opened his business to unrepresented screenwriters and spent over 1,000 hours talking with writers from around the world about their spec scripts. Inspired by SAVE THE CAT’s helpful guide to structure, Adam synthesized […]

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April 16, 2011 – Pitching to the Very Honest Feedback Panel

If you don’t know the measure of your product you won’t find success. You can’t buy pants if you don’t know your own waist size. And you can’t sell your material if you don’t know it’s true market value. A panel of producers and consultants should be of great help by presenting a good dose […]

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April 9, 2011 – PANEL: Writing for the Whole Family!

Annie DeYoung is an award-winning writer of feature film and television scripts. In 2008, she won the WGA award and Humanitas prize in the children’s live-action categories for her teleplay JOHNNY KAPAHALA: BACK ON THE BOARD. In 2007 she won the Christopher Award for THE RON CLARK STORY, which was also nominated for a Golden […]

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March 26, 2011 – The New Litmus Tests of Story

We live in a time of unprecedented and unbridled change that increasingly presents both the media industry and the worlds it seeks to serve with endlessly unforeseen challenges and unimagined possibilities, even as it just as rapidly renders previously reliable ways of seeing and doing things as outdated to irrelevant. It is a radically changing world that […]

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