Filed under: Workshops.
with Pilar Alessandra
$135 CineVic/MediaNet/ViFPA members $150 non-members
Screenwriting instructor / script consultant Pilar Alessandra teaches writing tools and techniques to help screenwriters and television writers create strong characters, heightened emotional moments, memorable lines of dialogue, and engaging screen patter.
Topics include...
* Building a Story From Character Flaw
* Creating Multi-dimensional Characters
* Inventing a Language and Voice for your Character
* Building Relationships Through Dynamic Dialogue
* Crafting and Editing Your Dialogue
* Managing Exposition and Monologue
The first ten people to register will get a free copy of Pilar’s soon to be released book The Coffee Break Screenwriter.
Catherine Lough Haggquist, owner of Vancouver’s Biz Books, will be at CineVic with books on hand for anyone interested in building their knowledge and their library. If you choose not to take the course, you can still come to purchase books between 12:00-1:00 on August 28th. And we can take requests! Visit http://store.bizbooks.net/ E-mail Krista office@cinevic.ca with your choices.
About the Instructor:
Pilar is the director of the Los Angeles writing program "On the Page" www.onthepage.tv She has worked as Senior Story Analyst for DreamWorks and Radar Pictures and has trained writers at ABC/Disney, MTV/Nickelodeon, the National Screen Institute, the Los Angeles Film School, The UCLA Writers Program and more. Her students and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers and Sony and have won prestigious competitions such as the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition and the Nicholl Fellowship. Her weekly podcast “On the Page” is regularly in the iTunes top 50 of film and TV podcasts and her book “The Coffee Break Screenwriter” will be published by Michael Wiese Publications and released fall of 2010.
ALSO NEXT DAY IN VANCOUVER
BEYOND THE CHICK FLICK: Writing The Female-Driven Screenplay with Pilar Alessandra
Actsafe (1385 West 8th Avenue, Suite 280) Vancouver, BC - Sunday August 29th - 10am-4pm - $150
Don’t cry into your Haagen Dazs! You can write a female-driven movie that sells ... without selling out.
"Beyond the Chick Flick," taught by Pilar Alessandra, helps get your female-driven project out of your head, and on the page.
In this daylong, intensive seminar you will ...
* Replace “soft” scenes with active moments.
* Create bold character choices without falling into tired stereotypes. * Turn girly chatter into real-woman dialogue.
* Write a female-driven screenplay that hangs with the big boys!
Class is open to all.
