CHRISSY BLUMENTHAL
Producer Chrissy Blumenthal began her career as a story editor at Mandalay
Entertainment. In 1999 she joined Todd Black and Jason Blumenthal's Black
and Blu Entertainment as Vice President of Development, overseeing the
production of such films as A Knight's Tale and Antwone Fisher.
In 2001 Black and Blu merged with the Steve Tisch Company to form Escape
Artists, which is currently in pre-production on Weather Man, directed
by Gore Verbinski and starring Nicholas Cage, as well as Need,
directed by Marcus Nispel and starring Diane Lane. As Senior Vice President
of Escape Artists, she is personally overseeing the development of Thompson
Evan's romantic-comedy, Wedlocked, starring Meg Ryan; and an adaptation
of Karyn Bosnak's novel, Save Karyn.
MARTI BLUMENTHAL
Marti Blumenthal has been a literary agent in the motion picture and television
industry for over fifteen years. She currently is a partner and oversees
the literary department at Writers and Artists Group International, which
encompasses both motion pictures and television. Some of her personal
projects include raising the financing for Igby Goes Down and negotiating
the sale of film rights to many of John Grisham's best-selling novels.
She is co-founder of Showbiz Seminars, a company established to educate
the next generation of screenwriters and filmmakers about the industry.
She is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science.
MARTY BOWEN
Marty Bowen is partner and agent at the United Talent Agency.
LARRY BRODY
A television writing legend, Larry Brody has written and/or produced and
created thousands of hours of network television programming, including
such animated series as Spawn, The Silver Surfer, and Spider-Man
Unlimited; as well as primetime series such as Mike Hammer, Baretta, Medical Story, The Fall Guy, The Streets
of San Francisco, and Police Story. Brody has won or been nominated
for every major television award and both Spawn and Police Story have won Emmys for Best Series. Brody is also the Founder and Creative
Director of Cloud Creek Institute for the Arts, a non-profit corporation
dedicated to advancing the arts by helping new artists get a foot in the
door. Brody has used his award-winning website, tvwriter.com, to help
launch the careers of many new writers, and his book, Television Writing
from the Inside Out: Your Channel to Success, is a top seller.
STANLEY M. BROOKS
Veteran TV Producer Stanley Brooks started his career as Vice President
of Development for Centerpoint Productions, where he developed Oceanquest,
an NBC documentary miniseries that garnered five Emmy nominations. Brooks
left Centerpoint to become President of Guber-Peters Television, which
afforded him an opportunity to help some of the more prominent writers
and producers in television to move into features, the foremost example
being Barry Morrow with Rain Man, which went on to win Best Picture
in 1988. After Brooks left Guber-Peters, he started Once Upon A Time
Films, and embarked on a series of TV firsts: producing MTV's first
movie, Jailbait!; TNT's first MOW, Finish Line; and Arnold
Schwarzenegger's directorial debut Christmas in Connecticut. Last
year, his company produced the first telefilm to ever air on ESPN: A
Season on the Brink, starring Brian Dennehy as former Indiana head
basketball coach Bobby Knight. This year Once Upon A Time Films has already
produced three TV films including Beautiful Girl for Disney; On
Thin Ice with Diane Keaton for Lifetime; and The Legend of Butch
& Sundance for NBC.
LINDA COWGILL
Linda Cowgill is a screen and television writer who has taught at the
AFI, the Kennedy Center, the Boston Film Institute, Loyola Marymount University,
and the LA Film School. As a student at UCLA, she won a Jim Morrison Award
for best short film, and in 1986, her feature film, Opposing Force,
was released by Orion Pictures (under a pseudonym). She has written for
such television shows as Quincy, The Young Riders, and Life
Goes On, for which she won a Genesis Award. Ms. Cowgill teaches a
seminar called The Art of Plotting, and is also the author of Writing
Short Films and Secrets of Screenplay Structure. Her website
can be found at www.plotinc.com.
LISA CRON
Lisa Cron spent a decade in publishing as an editor and publicist before
turning to writing. On the strength of her spec script, Overnight Sensation,
she was hired by producers Brett and Bill Hudson (Kate's dad) to write
the pilot and bible for a one-hour family drama they were developing.
She spent the next seven years commuting between New York and Los Angeles,
where she served as a writer and producer on several projects with Hudson.
In New York she was a story analyst, first for Warner Bros., then for
the William Morris Agency, concentrating on books to film. She has read
for such companies as Miramax, Icon Productions, Village Roadshow, and
the Don Buchwald Agency. As a natural off-shoot of her work, about ten
years ago she also began working one-on-one with writers, as a literary
coach.
Her website can be found at inside-story-ink.com.
MARK DEMPSEY
Mark Dempsey is currently a freelance story analyst. Prior to that, Mark
was a development executive at Echo Lake Productions for seven years,
where he was Vice President and Director of Development. During his tenure
at Echo Lake, Mark evaluated submissions, advised the company on the acquisition
of new projects, and assisted in the development of many of Echo Lake's
current slate of projects. Mark is a graduate of Southern Methodist University
and received his MFA in Screenwriting from Loyola Marymount University.
DIANE DRAKE
Diane Drake's credits include the Paramount romantic comedy What Women
Want starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt; and Only You, directed
by Norman Jewison, and starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Marisa Tomei. Before
turning to screenwriting full time, Drake was Vice President of Creative
Affairs for Director-Producer Sydney Pollack's Mirage Productions. She
is a native of Los Angeles, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from
the University of California at San Diego.
DAVID ENGEL
David Engel is a partner at the West Coast office of the management/production
company, Circle of Confusion. Circle has a first-look production deal
with Columbia Pictures. Additionally, the outfit manages such film, television,
and comic book clients as The Wachowski Brothers (The Matrix trilogy),
Simon Kinberg (XXX2), Chabot & Peterka (Reign of Fire),
Kiran (Kid Bang), Brian Michael Bendis (Spider-Man, Powers,
Jinx), Michael Avon Oeming (Hammer of the Gods, Bastard Samurai),
Dan Brereton (The Psycho, The Nocturnals), and James Hudnall
(The Psycho, Harsh Realm). Formerly, Engel was Director
of Development for Mace Neufeld Productions, where he discovered Powers,
the graphic novel now set up at Sony, and previously found the comic book Harsh Realm, which aired on Fox TV.
JOHN FASANO
Moving to Los Angeles in 1990 John Fasano sold his first script, Tailgunner,
to Morgan Creek for $1.5 million. Other feature films followed in quick
sucession: Another 48 Hours (Paramount), Judge Dredd (Cinergi), Universal Soldier: The Return (Columbia), and 2003's Darkness
Falls (Columbia). Additional screenplay sales include Shaolin for Disney, and Werewolf By Night for Marvel Comics/Dimension Films.
Fasano also had a role in producing the motion pictures Darkness Falls and Tombstone (Hollywood Pictures), as well as creating several
television pilots and telefilms including FX: The Series for Rysher, Mean Streak for Showtime; the miniseries The Forever War for the Sci-Fi Channel; The Hunley and WGA-nominated teleplay The
Hunchback, both for TNT; Christine Refuelled, Saving Jessica
Lynch, and The Legend of Butch and Sundance for NBC. John is
represented by 1CM and Baumgarten Management and Production.
ROBBIE FOX
Robbie Fox studied theater and film at Northwestern and New York Universities.
His short film The Great O'Grady won several comedy awards on the
festival circuit and played for several years on Showtime. He wrote the
original feature film comedies So I Married an Axe Murderer with
Mike Myers, and Shooting Elizabeth with Jeff Goldblum, as well
as the story for In the Army Now with Pauly Shore. He's done punch
ups on various TV shows and movies including the Disney short Runaway
Brain, and My Girl with Dan Aykroyd and Macaulay Culkin. For
the theater, he wrote The Gift, a musical starring Alicia Witt
that played in Los Angeles during the summer of 2000. Two years before
that he did the New York workshop of that musical under Herbert Ross'
direction, then called Complications. He currently has a number
of original scripts in development with Disney, Fox, and Universal. His
next two films are romantic comedies: Once in Love with Jamie,
which is currently casting to be produced in 2004 by One Roof Entertainment,
and So I Met This Girl, which will be directed by Joel Zwick.
DAVID T. FRIENDLY
David T. Friendly has been a producer and executive in the film business
for over thirteen years. Friendly began his career as a journalist at Newsweek and later at The Los Angeles Times, where he was
approached by Imagine Entertainment co-founders Brian Grazer and Ron Howard
to join their company. During seven years at Imagine, he rose to President
of Production and was integral to many of the company's hits, including Backdraft, Kindergarten Cop, The Dream Team, and The Burbs, and served as Executive Producer on My Girl, Greedy, and The Chamber. In 1994, Friendly joined Davis
Entertainment as President, where he oversaw all aspects of development
and production. In 2000, Friendly teamed with Marc Turtletaub to form
Deep River Productions. Bankrolled at upwards of $25 million, this new
production entity will finance its own development and overhead, while
partnering with various studios. He is currently finishing Laws of
Attraction, starring Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore. His other
credits include Big Momma's House, Here on Earth, Dr.
Doolittle, and Courage under Fire.
D.B. GILLES
D.B. Gilles is the author of the popular screenwriting book, The Screenwriter
Within, published by Random House. He teaches Screenwriting and Comedy
Writing in the Film Department at New York University. He also teaches
in the Graduate Film Department at Columbia University. He writes a weekly
column on screenwriting for
Hollywoodlitsales.com and also writes for writerstore.com. Mr. Gilles
is a script consultant who can be reached directly at
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BARRY GOLD
Barry Gold is a TV writer who has written for Arliss, Major
Dad, and Family Matters, as well as several other sitcoms.
KIRA GOLDBERG
Kira Goldberg is the Head of Development at Lynda Obst Productions.
DAVID GOYER
Writer-Director-Producer David S. Goyer began his writing career soon
after graduation from film school at USC, with the Jean-Claude Van Damme
starrer Death Warrant, followed by three more produced features
and the NBC series, Sleepwalkers. After writing New Line's comic
book-to-film hit Blade, and the haunting, noirish Dark City,
David co-produced Disney's Mission to Mars while creating and writing
the Fox series, Freakylinks. He also wrote and executive produced Blade II and adapted Murder Mysteries, a supernatural thriller
based on a short story by Goth comic book guru Neil Gaiman. Recently David
wrote the comic book JSA for DC comics, adapted Jeff Long's novel The Descent for DreamWorks, and wrote the intensely anticipated Batman for director Christopher Nolan. ZigZag, David's directorial
debut, allowed him to launch his own production company, Phantom Four
Films, through which he will produce the ghost story Alone for
New Line Cinema, the futuristic comic Y: The Last Man for New Line,
and the science-fiction-themed comic Unique for Touchstone. Currently,
David is directing his second feature, Blade III, on which he also
serves as producer and writer.
GRADY HALL
Writer-Director Grady Hall's industry experience ranges from the mailroom
to the director's chair. He started his career at Warner Bros., and read
thousands of scripts on the way to becoming, at age twenty-five, the head
of development for a prolific television producer. Grady worked on his
own movies and series projects, eventually staffing The Outer Limits for Showtime. More recently, he has written and directed music videos
for bands such as R.E.M. and Less Than Jake, and directed commercials
for Nike, DIRECTV, McDonalds, ESPN, and others.
JONATHAN HANDEL
Jonathan Handel is Of Counsel at the Troy & Gould law firm in Century
City, where he practices entertainment and digital media law. He was previously
Associate Counsel of the Writers Guild of America. Mr. Handel serves on
the Business and Management Advisory Board of UCLA Extension's Entertainment
Department, and has taught film appreciation classes and seminars on entertainment
law, business, and technology. The material presented here is for general
information only. It is not legal advice, and may not represent the views
of the organizations listed. His website is www.jhandel.com.
RIO HERNANDEZ
Rio Dylan Hernandez is a recent graduate of USC's Master of Professional
Writing Program. She has worked both in film production and development,
and been a script analyst for such companies as DreamWorks SKG, New Line,
Tri-Star TV and the William Morris Agency.
JON HUDDLE
Jon Huddle is a motion picture literary agent at 1CM.
CLAUDIA JOHNSON
Claudia Johnson and Matt Stevens are the co-authors of Script Partners:
What Makes Film and TV Writing Teams Work, the first book on the subject
of collaborative scriptwriting. Claudia is also the author of the popular
film school text Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, and Stifled
Laughter, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Their website
can be found at www.scriptpartners.com.
LARRY KARASZEWSKI
Larry Karaszewski is the writing partner of Scott Alexander. Together,
they wrote Ed Wood, for which they were nominated for Best Screenplay
by the Writers Guild of America. They followed this with The People
vs. Larry Flynt, for which they won the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay,
as well as a special Writers Guild Award given in recognition of work
done for civil rights and liberties. They re-teamed again with director
Milos Forman on Man on the Moon, a biopic about the legendary comic
genius Andy Kaufman. They currently are writing and directing a biopic
on the Marx brothers. Collaborators since their senior year at USC's School
of Cinema, they began their careers with the box office hit Problem
Child and its sequel.
KEN KOKIN
Ken Kokin is a producer whose credits include The Way of the Gun, The Usual Suspects, and Public Access. He is a graduate
of the USC School of Cinema-Television.
ADAM KOLBRENNER
Adam Kolbrenner began his career in the mailroom at the William Morris
Agency in New York, and ended up working for legendary music agent, Jon
Podell, and such clients as The Eagles, Peter Gabriel, The Ailman Brothers,
and dozens of hiphop artists. He was also responsible for client bookings
of summer tours and festivals including Woodstock '94, Lollapollooza,
and the Horde Festival. Later he moved to William Morris' offices in Los
Angeles where he worked in both motion picture and television packaging
with such high-profile clients as John Travolta, Candice Bergen, Elaine
May, Dustin Hoffman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. At the age of twenty-four,
Adam became the co-founder of Foundation Management, and is currently
head of literary management and co-head of productions. Under the FLM
banner, Adam represents over thirty working writers and directors for
film and television.
GREGG MCBRIDE
Gregg McBride is a screenwriter and TV writer whose credits include Have
a Nice Life for MW Films and Happily Never After for Disney.
He was also a staff writer on MTV's hip, sexy series Undressed.
His website can be found at www.bridesmadefilms.com.
PETER MILLER
Peter Miller has been a literary and film manager for over thirty years.
He has represented over 900 books and has had eleven New York Times bestsellers, and eleven movies produced that he either managed, developed,
or executive produced. As a producer, he has been nominated for two Emmy
Awards. His company, PMA, is based in New York, but he stays in close
contact with Los Angeles-based studio, network, cable, and film company
executives as well as with West Coast-based agents, managers, screenwriters,
and directors. PMA also employs foreign representatives throughout the
world since many of their clients have been global bestsellers. PMA's
sister corporation, Millennium Lion, Inc., is a production entity that
coordinates the submission of all potential film properties to television
networks, studios, and production companies. You can contact Peter Miller
through his company's website at www.pmalitfilm.com.
CRAIG MOSS
Craig Moss is part of a screenwriting duo that includes Steve Schoenburg.
Together they have written Night Girls for New Regency, National
Lampoon's Back to College, and Sissymarys for
Universal. Their TV work includes Crank It Up for Fox, and Feltlyn for Fox and the WB.
WENDI NIAD
Former literary agent Wendi Niad opened Niad Management in 1997 with the
goal of providing close personal advice and counsel for her carefully
chosen stable of writers and directors. She began her career at 1CM working
with heavy hitting clients and companies such as Roland Joffe, Randall
Wallace, 40 Acres and a Mule, and Stephen J. Cannell Productions.
STEPHANIE PALMER
Stephanie Palmer is currently the Director of Creative Affairs at MGM
Pictures. Originally from Alexandria, Virginia, Stephanie received a B.F.A.
in theater directing from Carnegie Mellon University. Her first job in
the business was as an assistant at Jerry Bruckheimer Films on Armageddon and Enemy of the State. She has worked at MGM since 1999 where
she started as an assistant and has been promoted three times to her current
position as a development and production executive. In 2003, she was named
one of the "Top 35 Under 35 Entertainment Executives" by The Hollywood
Reporter.
DENNIS PALUMBO
Formerly a Hollywood screenwriter (My Favorite Year; Welcome
Back, Kotter), Dennis Palumbo, MA, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist
in private practice, specializing in creative issues. He's the author
of a novel (City Wars), as well as numerous articles and reviews.
His most recent book is Writing From the Inside Out: Transforming Your
Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within. Dennis' work helping
writers has been profiled in Premiere, GQ, and The Los
Angeles Times, as well as on CNN. His website can be found at www.dennispalumbo.com.
PARIS QUALLES
Known primarily for his work as an episodic and long form television writer-producer,
Paris Qualles spent more than fifteen years in the theater as an actor
and director before turning to film and television writing. His episodic
television credits include China Beach, Equal Justice; Lois
& Clark, The New Adventures of Superman; Quantum Leap, Law & Order, Amen, and The Heights. Television
movies include the Emmy-winning The Cape; the Emmy, Cable-ACE,
Image, and Peabody award-winning The Tuskegee Airmen; the Cable-ACE
winning The Ditchdigger's Daughters; and the Emmy, Writers Guild,
Humanitas, and Image award-winning The Color of Friendship. Other
TV movies include The Rosa Parks Story, Profoundly Normal,
and Standing at the Scratch Line. Feature films include The
Inkwell, Brothers, Hannibal, and Sadgwar. Paris
has received a Humanitas Award, Writers Guild Award, Image Award, and
Christopher Award.
PAT QUINN
Pat Quinn is a literary and packaging agent at Innovative Artists. She
is one of the top packagers in the entertainment industry with a background
in television production, feature films, and theater. Her client list
includes award-winning screenwriters, primetime comedy and drama series
show runners, and production companies. She is also an instructor at UCLA
Extension, creating the courses "Pitch Like the Pros: Insider Tips for
Selling Your TV Show"; "Agent Representation for Film and Television Artists";
"Pilot Season: Packaging, Pressure, and Perseverance"; and "Who Wants
to Be a Millionaire? A Guide to Developing, Selling, and Producing Reality/Alternative
TV Programming."
NANCY RAINFORD
After graduating from SUNY, Purchase, Nancy Rainford began her career
in New York reading scripts for a Broadway producer. In search of warmer
climates, she moved to Los Angeles and spent nine years as a talent agent,
representing actors, writers, and soon-to-be directors. She then switched
hats from seller to buyer and began four years of television and feature
film casting, including over twenty television series and pilots for ABC,
NBC, CBS, Fox, and HBO. Today, as a manager and producer, she handles
writers, actors, and directors, and is currently developing projects for
theater, television, and film, including Tim Ryan's critically acclaimed
one-man show All the Help You Need.... Together with client Hopwood
DePree, she co-created and executive produced Dear Doughboy, a
half-hour comedy pilot originally shot for the WB network and Brillstein-Grey
Productions. Rainford's book, titled How to Agent Your Agent, was
written for actors, writers and anyone who finds themselves in need of
representation.
DYANN S. RIVKIN
Dyann S. Rivkin is an award-winning writer-producer of broadcast network,
nationally syndicated, and cable television programs; entertainment, educational,
and promotional videos; and films. Her background includes ten years of
Los Angeles production and scriptwriting experience as well as filming
on location across America, and in Canada and Ireland. She has taught
video production at Vanderbilt University and has taught screenwriting
at Belmont University in Nashville, where she also teaches private courses
in the art and craft of screenwriting.
MYRL A. SCHREIBMAN
Myrl A. Schreibman, author of The Indie Producers Handbook: Creative
Producing From A-Z, has been a producer for over three decades and
a faculty member of the UCLA Film School. He has produced and/or directed
award winning projects for theater, film, and television, both on the
studio level and the independent level. One of the leading authorities
in the field, his lectures on producing and directing have inspired the
likes of Producer Dan Angel (Door to Door), and Director Justin
Linn (Better Luck Tomorrow). His theories on producing are now
studied at all the major film schools in the United States. His website, www.indieproducing.com,
is one of the most visited sites of its type on the Internet.
ARNOLD SCHULMAN
Arnold Schulman sold his first story at age ten and ever since has thought
of doing nothing else but writing. He started out as an aspiring playwright,
studying form and structure with Clifford Odets and others. He received
on-the-job training in New York as a writer for live television and worked
on nearly seventy teleplays. Eventually, Schulman was beckoned to Hollywood
by Director George Cukor and Producer Hal Wallis to write Wild is the
Wind. Some of his other screenplay credits include Funny Lady, A Chorus Line and Tucker: A Man and His Dream. In addition,
he has two Oscar nominations, one for Best Original Story and Screenplay
(Love with the Proper Stranger), and one for Screenplay Adaptation
(Goodbye, Columbus). He also has three Writers Guild nominations
for Best Screenplay (Wild is the Wind, A Hole in the Head,
and Love with the Proper Stranger), and a Writers Guild Award for Goodbye, Columbus.
SETH SCHUR
Seth Schur is Director of Development for Saturn Films, where he heads
up development for the company's project slate, including coverage and
story notes, and is responsible for all new material. Seth started out
as an administrative assistant at Stone Meyer & Genow, LLP, working
with the company's entertainment attorneys on contracts for talent and
literary clients. In 2000 he moved over to Saturn, where he oversaw production
on The Life of David Gale and Sonny. Seth was also a juror
at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival in 2002.
LINDA SEGER
Dr. Linda Seger defined the job of script consultant in 1981, when she
began her script consulting business based on a system for analyzing screenplays
that she developed as part of her doctoral dissertation. She has consulted
on over 2000 projects, including over thirty produced TV projects, and
over fifty produced feature films. Her clients have included TriStar Pictures,
MGWUA, Guber-Peters Entertainment, and Charles Fries Entertainment, as
well as Ray Bradbury, William Kelley, Tony Bill, Dave Bell, Linda Lavin,
and Suzanne De Passe. She is the author of seven books on screenwriting
and filmmaking: Making a Good Script Great; Creating Unforgettable
Characters; The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact and Fiction into
Film; From Script to Screen:
The Collaborative Art of Filmmaking (with co-author Edward Jay Whetmore); When Women Call the Shots: The Developing Power and Influence of Women
in Television and Film; and Making a Good Writer Great, Advanced
Screenwriting: Raising your Writing to the Academy Award Level; and
her latest release, From Script to Screen: The Collaborative Art of
Filmmaking, 2nd Edition, also written with Edward Jay Whetmore.
CHARLES SHYER
In 1979 Charles Shyer and Nancy Myers teamed up to write Private Benjamin,
which they also produced. The screenplay won Meyers and Shyer a Writers
Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and was nominated
for an Academy Award in that same category. The film was also nominated
for multiple Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress.
Shyer's next project, Irreconcilable Differences, marked his directorial
debut. In 1991, Meyers and Shyer remade the 1950 Vincente Minnelli classic, Father of the Bride (with Shyer directing) and later its sequel, Father of the Bride, Part II. Shyer is currently in post-production
on a film based on the 1960s classic, Alfie. The new version stars
Jude Law and is scheduled for a fall/holiday 2004 release.
MATT STEVENS
Matt Stevens and Claudia Johnson are the co-authors of Script Partners:
What Makes Film and TV Writing Teams Work, the first book on the subject
of collaborative scriptwriting. Matt is a writer-director-producer who
has sold both fiction and documentary projects and is a contributing writer
for E! Online and numerous new-media outlets. Their website can be found
at www.scriptpartners.com.
DAN STRONCAK
Dan Stroncak has spent a decade working in the entertainment industry.
After graduating from the UCLA Professional Screenwriting Program he worked
as a development assistant for 20th Century Fox, then as a casting associate
for Valerie McCaffrey. He learned feature film finance as a foreign distribution
consultant for Morgan Creek Productions, then returned to development
as a story analyst for Intermedia Films and Shady Acres Entertainment.
He was also a creative executive for Director Steve Anderson, a VP of
Development for Blue Raven Films, and an associate producer with Bogorad/Wyler
Productions, before establishing Exemplar Entertainment, a literary management
and independent production company. Currently Dan is working as a creative
executive for producer Christine Peters (How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days)
at Paramount Pictures.
STEPHEN SUSCO
Stephen Susco has been a screenwriter since 1996. He has written scripts
for New Line, Universal, Dimension, Sony, Miramax and Paramount Studios,
and for directors and producers such as Mike Nichols, Quentin Tarantino,
Ted Demme, Gale Anne Hurd, Philip Noyce, Taylor Hackford, Sam Raimi, and
John Leguizamo. His first produced film, The Grudge, will be completed
this year.
DAVID TROTTIER
David Trottier is the author of The Screenwriter's Bible
- now in its third edition - which contains the latest on formatting,
spec style, script marketing, writing guidelines, and more. In his capacity
as screenwriter and script consultant, he has developed projects for,
among others, the Walt Disney Company, Jim Henson Pictures, New Century,
and York Entertainment. More information on Trottier can be found on his
website at www.keepwriting.com.
JOHN TRUBY
John Truby has taught his Great Screenwriting and Genre classes to over
20,000 students worldwide. He has been a story consultant and script doctor
for Disney Studios, Sony Pictures, FOX, HBO, Alliance Atlantis, Cannell
Studios, BBC, and others. His Blockbuster software takes students through
the entire writing process using his award-winning "22 steps of every
great story." You can visit his website at www.Truby.com.
CHRISTINE VALADA
Christine Valada, Esq. is a copyright and entertainment lawyer practicing
in Los Angeles County, California. She represents individual writers,
visual and performing artists, and is California Legislative Counsel for
the American Society of Media Photographers. From 1996-2002 she served
as outside general counsel for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
of America. She graduated from Case Western Reserve University School
of Law and clerked for both the Writers Guild of America, west, Inc. and
the Directors Guild of America, Inc. during two successive summers. She
has a special interest in creators' rights and her article "Truth, Justice,
and the American Way" about comic book properties and the law was the
cover story for a past entertainment law issue of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine.
DOUG WALLACE
Doug Wallace is a screenwriter who has written and developed projects
for Gail Anne Hurd, Phillip Noyce, Arnold Kopelson, Jon Peters, Michael
Phillips, Alan Riche, Tony Ludwig, Doug Wick, CZ Wick, Neil Moritz, Brad
Luff, Ricardo Mestres, and Channing Dungee, among others. He has also
written for the TV series Monsters and Tales From the Dark Side,
and he wrote the feature film Sensations, which premiered on HBO
in 1995.
DANIEL YANKELEVITS
Daniel Yankelevits is an executive in the Business and Legal Affairs Group
at DreamWorks SKG, and teaches an annual entertainment law seminar at
UCLA. He previously served as Director of Business Affairs at HBO and
at New Line Cinema, and was co-chair of the Beverly Hills Bar Association's
Entertainment Section. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and currently
lives in Los Angeles. He is the coauthor, with Dina Appleton, of Hollywood
Dealmaking.
LARRY ZERNER
Larry Zerner is a copyright, trademark, and entertainment attorney in
Los Angeles who represents writers for both transactional and litigation
matters. He can be reached at
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HOWARD MEIBACH
A leading expert in the spec script marketplace, Howard Meibach is the
President of Hollywoodlitsales.com, Inc., an Internet company dedicated
to helping writers and filmmakers connect with producers, agents, lawyers,
and others in the Hollywood film community. Meibach is affiliated with
Sony-based Escape Artists to find literary material and new talent on
and off the Internet. Formerly, he worked in development with Ron Shusett,
co-screenwriter and producer of Total Recall and Alien,
and has also worked for Michael Jaffe, producer of dozens of network and
cable television movies. Meibach is the writer of several screenplays
and has authored a reference book for screenwriters, Spec Screenplay
Sales Directory. He regularly lectures at writing seminars and classes
throughout the United States and can be contacted through his website.
PAUL DURAN
Paul Duran is a writer-director of two independent feature films — Flesh Suitcase and The Dogwalker. His wide breadth of knowledge
of the industry — in addition to screenwriting and directing, he
has worked as an editor, art director, assistant cameraman, script reader,
and journalist — has led Duran back to the classroom. He has lectured
on independent filmmaking at USC and has taught screenwriting both here
and abroad, most recently in Cuba. His next project, Antarctica,
is currently in development.
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