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Trail Dance Film Festival
Featuring family-oriented and Western films, also accepting all genres except adult-themed, is an open-genre independent film competition. Trail Dance affords opportunities for filmmake....
Trindie Fest
Independent film festival run in association with Trinidad State Junior College. Come and support independent films in the Southern Colorado Region. Keep a watch for other films coming ....
Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival
Trinidad & Tobago's premier film festival, also featured in Europe. Founded in 2006, the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) is an annual celebration of films from and about Trinid....
Utopia Film Festival
Featuring films that explore utopian visions, i.e. cultural, social, political, environmental--the utopian spirit of better living through film. The Utopia Film Festival is also a dedic....
Vancouver Asian Film Festival
Canada's oldest festival with a a focus on films by North American artists of Aisan heritage. VAFF strives to promote dynamic and innovative images of Asians, especially Canadian As....
Washington West Film Festival
Celebrating innovative and impassioned film that will comfort and challenge audiences, who can make lasting and tangible differences in the world. Washington West is a non-profit organi....
White Sands International Film Festival
A New Mexico film festival, featuring films from around the world and promoting local filmmaking. WSIFF screens outstanding short- and feature-length films, documentaries and narratives....
Wilmore 9
Celebrating music, film, and local artists from all over Southern California in Long Beach. The festival will celebrate music from 50+ bands ranging from local musicians to Hollywood he....
Wine Country Film Festival
AKA the Santa Rose International Film Festival, showing films from around the world to wine country. Our purpose is, through film and the arts, to recognize their talents, their humanit....
WINTER FILM AWARDS INDEPENDENT FILM FEST
The WFA Festival focuses on the diversity of independent film, and offers an exciting mixture of film genres, viewpoints and subjects. Our Mission is to recognize excellence in cinema a....
Improve Your Pitch II with Gary Shusett
Gary Shusett aka “Professor Logline” returns for part II in his "Improve Your Pitch" series to help you create more effective pitches for your projects. Gary is the founder of Sherwood Oaks College which helps writers by providing access to actors, directors, producers and agents.....
Essential Rewriting Tools and Techniques With Corey Mandell
Many writers find rewriting a frustrating experience where they keep reworking their scripts without really making them much better. In fact, the scripts often get worse. There’s a reason for this.....
Film Genre for the Screenwriter with Jule Selbo
Film Genre is an important aspect of the film narrative. It is important for the screenwriter to understand film genre's place in the story so that he or she can deliver on audience expectations – and maybe even move the screenwriting form forward. ....
Improve Your Pitch III with Gary Shusett
Gary Shusett aka “Professor Logline” returns to the I.S.A. to help you create more effective pitches for your projects. You’ll find this 2-hour teleclass invaluable for understanding how to get busy producers interested in reading your material.....
John Truby On The Oscar-Nominated Scripts
The ISA is pleased to present John Truby exclusively as he tackles this 2012\'s Oscar-nominated scripts - the winners, the losers, why some scripts are nominated, why others aren\'t and more. Mr. Truby hopes to get you to look under the surface, to see the structural decisions these Oscar-nominated writers made in creating their scripts.....
Improve Your Pitch I with Gary Shusett
It's one thing to write a quality script, but part of its selling is knowing how to pitch it. However, the good news is that effective pitching is among the easiest skills to learn. Pitch expert Gary Shusett is the founder of Sherwood Oaks College which helps writers by providing access to actors, directors, producers and agents.....
Adapting Articles, Books and Life Rights to TV and Film
Writer/Producer/Literary Consultant Brad Brad has written for all media, done consultations for worldwide clients when he was V.P. at Chris Vogler’s Storytech, and has been writer-producer for PBS. Brad created the series North Mission Road, which ran six seasons on truTV.....
Life as a Horror/Thriller Writing Professional
Learn what to expect once you make your way into the Hollywood trenches. Christine will discuss what it’s really like to be a working screenwriter in Hollywood, including the nuts and bolts of what to expect when you’re hired by a producer, how to manage the relationship and respond to script notes.....
Clear and Tight Writing with Will Akers
Crushing to learn: Nobody wants to read your stuff, unless it's your mom. You are duty bound to give the reader a document that is 1.) clear and 2.) easy to read. Will Akers will show you how to clean up that first draft. Will has written scripts and series television for studios, independent producers, and television networks....
Story Mapping The Shawshank Redemption
Daniel Calvisi and William Robert Rich, hosts of the Story Maps Screenwriting Podcast, will break down and discuss The Shawshank Redemption with a beat-by-beat structural analysis that explores its classical structure, as well as the non-traditional elements that break from the Hollywood norm.....
