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Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe Offers Mentor Classes
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Hal Ackerman (Chair of the UCLA graduate screenwriting division and author) has been a mentor to Nicholas Griffin (Matchstick Men), Sacha Gervasi (The Terminal), Scott Kosar (The Machinist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Felicia Henderson (Soul Food) and Pamela Gray (A Walk On The Moon). Hal’s mentor class will help you turn your Passion Into Product.
Terry Borst studied with legendary screenwriting gurus Lew Hunter, Richard Walter and William Froug. His credits include numerous episodes for the TV series BUGS, the TV movie sequel
Gerald DiPego has 30-plus screenplays to his credit, including Phenomenon, Message in a Bottle, Instinct, Angel Eyes, and The Forgotten. In addition, he has five published novels. Gerald’s mentor class will show you how to “bring the audience in,” called FEEL
Pamela Gray’s feature credits include A Walk on the Moon (which received a Golden Satellite nomination for Best Original Screenplay and the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award), Music of the Heart and Dirty Dancing Dancing 2: Havana Nights. She has written features for Miramax, HBO, Disney, Universal and Working Title. She's also written for television, including episodes of Once and Again, Star Trek: The Next Generation, two Hallmark Hall of Fame movies and one-hour drama pilots for CBS and ABC. In her mentor class, Pamela will help you write distinct and unique characters in What Did Your Main Character Eat for Breakfast Today?
Bill Martell (West Coast editor of Scr(i)pt Magazine) has written 19 produced films, including three HBO World Premieres (Steel Sharks, Crash Dive! and Grid Runners), two for Showtime (Black Thunder and Droid Gunner), three Cinemax Premieres (Treacherous, Night Hunter and The Base), plus a couple of USA Network thrillers (Hard Evidence and Blind Trust). Bill will teach you how to scare the pants off of your audience in his mentor class, called Writing Horror and Thrillers.
For more detailed descriptions of the mentors and their classes, please visit www.scsfe.com or call toll-free
Updated: 03/09/2007
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After a string of suspicious celebrity deaths, an obsessed detective must protect a fragile pop starlet and other notable targets of an eccentric stalker who claims to be able to cancel deals with the devil they've unknowingly made.
THE FAT LADY SINGS
When a small time private investigator gets a chance at the big time taking on a prominent politician’s wife’s case; neither realizes they are in way over their heads, the political party has been shadowing her, and will do anything to protect her husband, a presumed future presidential candidate.
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A Psychological Horror With a twist of a psychotic individual suffering from psychosocial issues has an imaginary friend that’s part of his hallucinations his Imaginary friend is his British father a young proud to be American, forgets his medication after collecting it from a Pharmacy he causes a lot of mayhem around his area he thinks the worlds in his fingertips he chases down social media Influencers and artists by hacking and tracking their location constantly talking to himself as he hallucinates thinking He can see his British Father is around him, Kevin ends up with a chainsaw and gets a few round kills with his Chainsaw he stole from an old granny.
A Cracker in East Harlem
JIMMY J is 50 and has lived in the same East Harlem building for more than half of his life.
Free Sports Radio
Two Filipino-American brothers purchase a radio station in a small city, dreaming of commercial free sports talk, but their ambitious, younger sister has bigger plans for herself and the station.
Desert Quarry
Two mercenaries rob a former colleague's New York jewelry shop to even a score, but after the shop’s employees are found murdered, a deadly bank heist in Iraq begins to haunt them.
Perfect Contrition
A traumatized priest haunted by visions of his violent past obligingly serves a rural parish while indulging in a long distance affair, but his vindictive compulsion is sparked when he’s wrongly blamed for the deaths of two troubled altar boys.
LA Nights
It is 1973, and Quick operates an upscale after-hours establishment in West Los Angeles alongside his socialite son, Dizzy.
The Coventry Deception
After a crisis thrusts him into the presidency, Robert Gorley confronts the challenges of leadership as he deals with a power struggle, an assassination attempt, and a ruthless terrorist plot to launch multiple attacks on US soil.
Untouchable!
A blonde bombshell in stainless steel becomes a femme fatale - a relentless tiger with razor-sharp-toothed-pen spilling blood across the pages leaving nowhere, for the perpetrators - to turn - to hide - no 'out'! .
