LONDON
The BlueCat Screenwriting Workshop: LONDON
August 12-17, 2008
Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street, Bloomsbury London WC1E 7HX
REGISTER HERE: http:// www.bluecatscreenplay.com/workshop/london.php
Gordy Hoffman, the award-winning writer/director (LOVE LIZA, A COAT OF SNOW) and founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, will travel to the UK this August to lead a week of screenwriting workshops at the University of London.
The creative principles of the workshops were borne out of over a decade of experience of judging the only major script competition in the world helmed by a produced screenwriter, a writer who continues to write today.
The BlueCat workshops help the writer develop the authentic, original voice behind every story that impacts the emotions of the audience, the essence of all commercially and artistically successful films.
If you care passionately about your script and story, this week will provide the tools to transform your commitment and concern into a compelling film..
THE BLUECAT SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP 09:00 - 17:00 on August 16, 17 in room B35 Malet Street Cost: £150
The screenplay is creative writing. It is imagination in action, the heart of every experience of the writer speaking truthfully and generously.
Writing creatively for the screen has no method, no formula, no rigid worksheets to comply with or enforceable rules hanging on a wall somewhere. Every conformity or formula determined and “discovered” by the screenwriting establishment can be blown apart by some of our most beloved movies.
But what cannot be argued away is that every classic movie we love has affected us emotionally.
This is always true.
There are principles of authentic storytelling. Yes. But these are not learned, but remembered from our own experiences of living our lives. The ability to tell a story lies inside every human being.
Writers will engage in writing and pitching exercises designed to flesh out new ideas or rework existing scripts. Please bring your laptops and/or paper and pen.
If each person is indeed unique, it follows simply that each writer is unlike any other, and can write a story no one else on Earth can. This purpose is the mission of this workshop.
09:00 - 17:00 on August 16, 17 in room B35 Malet Street Cost: £150
REGISTER HERE: www.bluecatscreenplay.com/workshop/london.php
THE TEN PAGE WORKSHOP 18:30 – 23:00 on August 12, 13, 14 in room 629 Malet Street Cost: £125
These workshops will consist of 5 writers each submitting ten pages of a work in progress in advance. We will go over each work individually, discussing the specific, unique challenges each writer is facing on the page. This discussion will include the technical aspects of description and dialogue, the depth and reality of the characters, and how the ten pages reflect where the entire story goes.
The intimate, focused interaction with fellow writers in the workshop will provide all with a greater understanding of the work that lies ahead on their screenplay, and more importantly, a detailed sense of how they might develop as writers themselves.
18:30 – 23:00 on August 12 in room 629 Malet Street Cost: £125
18:30 – 23:00 on August 13 in room 629 Malet Street Cost: £125
18:30 – 23:00 on August 14 in room 629 Malet Street Cost: £125
REGISTER HERE: www.bluecatscreenplay.com/workshop/london.php
Bio of Gordy Hoffman Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival for LOVE LIZA, Gordy Hoffman made his feature directorial debut with his script, A COAT OF SNOW, which world premiered at the 2005 Locarno Intl Film Festival. A COAT OF SNOW made its North American Premiere at the Arclight in Hollywood, going on to screen at the Milan Film Festival and the historic George Eastman House. A COAT OF SNOW won the 2006 Domani Vision Award at VisionFest, held at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City. Gordy is the founder and judge of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition and teaches screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He is currently writing a movie about Los Angeles.
Questions? Email workshop@bluecatscreenplay.com
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