The 2009 Retreat Will Be Outstanding
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When you register for the 2009 Screenwriters' Retreat you will receive a FREE copy of "Showbiz Producer" from Showbiz Software, a value of $99.
Another unique feature of the Eugene International Film Festival, is this intensive 4-day course where you will learn, one-on-one, from Hollywood professionals, how to
In this exciting course, Hollywood Literary Agent Ken Sherman and Screenwriter/TV Showrunner/Novelist Tom Sawyer will answer your questions, and share with you their firsthand knowledge of how the Movie/TV Business works, and how you can break into it!
Read what former attendees say about this remarkable course:
Novelist, screenwriter, playwright, Thomas B. Sawyer was Head Writer/Showrunner of the hit CBS series, Murder, She Wrote, for which he wrote 24 episodes. Tom has written 9 network TV pilots, 100 episodes, and has been Head Writer/Showrunner or Story Editor on 15 network TV series. He wrote, directed and produced the cult film comedy, Alice Goodbody, is co-librettist/lyricist of Jack, an opera about John F. Kennedy, backed by the Shuberts, that has been performed to acclaim in the US and Europe. He is publisher of Storybase 2.0 and Storybase.net. The best-selling mystery/thriller, The Sixteenth Man, is his first novel. Both his book, Fiction Writing Demystified, and Storybase 2.0, are Writer's Digest Book Club Selections. His new thriller is NO PLACE TO RUN (Sterling & Ross - April 2009). He's taught writing at UCLA, at other colleges and universities, at numerous major writers' conferences, and online at Writers University. Mr. Sawyer has been nominated for an Edgar and an Emmy. www.ThomasBSawyer.com
President of Ken Sherman and Associates, a Beverly Hills-based literary agency representing screen, TV and book writers. Ken's clients include, to name a few, John Updike, David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars, Tawni O'Dell, whose first novel, Back Roads, became an international best seller and Oprah Book Club selection, Starhawk, considered the best-known witch in the world, Anne Perry, the world's best Victorian murder mystery writer and author of 50 books, plus the estates of Luis Buñuel and John Hersey.
Ken teaches at major colleges and universities, and at numerous writers conferences, from Maui to Santa Fe and elsewhere. His course, "The Business of Writing for Screen, Television and Publishing," has been featured at both USC and UCLA for more than six years. He serves as an Arts and Cultural Affairs Commissioner in the City of West Hollywood, is a founding member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles (BAFTA) and is a member of both the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the International Advisory Board of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.
If you have a script worthy of a Hollywood agent, this is the Screenwriters' Retreat you must attend. Ken will be looking for exciting new talent at the festival.
Zak from Cincinnati works on a class assignment. 2008 was his second year at the Retreat.
1. Learn basics – the need to pitch well.
2.The changing realities of the marketplace.
3. Get a LOCK on your screenplay, on what it is you’re writing.
