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CineStory offers Script Reading Workshop

Learn to read screenplays for coverage and competition. Get inside the heads of those who read YOUR submitted scripts. This is the only place between the coasts to learn to evaluate screenplays directly from active, working professionals.

This is a 2-day, weekend course.

WHEN: Sept. 11, 1999: 9:30 am ­ 3:00 pm and Sept. 12, 1999: 10:30 am ­ 4:00 pm

WHERE: DePaul University Building at 243 S. Wabash, 9th floor (near the corner of Jackson and Wabash, just north of the McDonald’s)

HOW MUCH: Registration Fee: CineStory Members: $145 (includes Saturday lunch) Non-Members: $160 (includes Saturday lunch)

WHAT:

• Story evaluation and appraisal techniques

• Coverage writing

• Script assessment and judging for contests

• Inside dope for writers entering competitions and submitting scripts to agencies and production companies

This course will include:

An unproduced screenplay to evaluate

Copy of a winning script from last year’s CineStory Screenwriting Awards

Plenty of handouts and sample coverages

A screenplay will be sent to registrants a week in advance to read PRIOR to the weekend seminar. There will be some overnight homework Saturday for evaluation on Sunday.

WHO:

This year’s seminar leaders:

• Brooks Ferguson, Partner, Promethean Productions. Formerly an assistant at Creative Artists Agency (CAA); assistant to Denise Di Novi (BATMAN, MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE); Columbia Pictures Vice President (ED WOOD, LITTLE WOMEN); Developer and Co-Producer at 20th Century Fox with Randa Haines (CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, THE DOCTOR); Partner with Jon Landau (TITANIC)

• Jonathan Kier, Development Executive, Marc Platt Productions, Universal Studios Formerly Story Editor for Disney-based Sonnenfeld/Josephson, Miramax, and Merchant Ivory Productions. Current position centers around fostering new talent.

• Pam Pierce, Executive Director, CineStory Producer of the CineStory Screenwriting Awards, Script Consultant, Award-Winning Writer, Documentarian, Writing Instructor

WHY:

Benefits of Attending:

A new way for writers to evaluate their own craft and projects.

Valuable career information from professionals in the middle of the action.

Background and experience if you are interested in applying to read for the 4th Annual CineStory Screenwriting Awards.

HOW:

Reserve your place by calling, faxing, mailing or returning this e-mail. Place will be guaranteed upon payment in full.

Space is limited to 45 people. Please register early.

If space is available, walk-ins will be welcome.

A confirmation packet including the script to be read prior to the seminar will be sent to the address you supply above.

REMEMBER:

Outside of rewriting, rewriting and more rewriting, this is the OTHER thing you can do to become a better screenwriter ­ and a better evaluator of script material.

Updated: 08/18/1999

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