Saturday February 19, 2005 in Orlando,
Florida
8:00-9:00 Onsite Registration for the Workshop
9:00-10:00 Pitch Coaching Class 1
10:00-11:00 Story Design - Creating Popular
Movies
11:00-12:00 Writing Exciting Unpredictable
Scripts
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break and Networking
1:00-2:00 Pitch Coaching Class 2
2:00-3:00 Creating Humorous Characters &
Scenes
3:00-4:00 Getting Hollywood Representation
4:00-5:00 Direct-to-DVD Movie Making
5:00-6:00 Hollywood Screenwriting Business
Panel
8:00-12:00pm Networking with Agents & Producers
Party
Pitch your script to Movie Producers and
Agents.
Pitch Sessions: 9:00-5:00 -- Each
Session lasts for 5 minutes. Writers will receive an
email with instructions on how to sign up for pitches
online once their registration payment for the Orlando
Workshop is processed. $25 for each pitch or 5
pitches for $100.
MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY GUESTS
Richard Michaels Stefanik, RMS Productions
Company, (www.TheMegahitMovies.com).
Richard works with new writers to develop their
original stories into high concept screenplays. He was
a Screenwriting Fellow at the American Film
Institute, where he wrote, directed and produced
a dramatic movie, Michael & Christina. He is
Producer-Director of the movie, Henry Dodd
(www.HenryDodd.com), released on DVD in 2004.
Richard worked at several Hollywood studios,
including Paramount Pictures and
Walt Disney Productions. He is the author of
Structures of Fantasy, a screenwriting book
that analyzed the dramatic and comic elements found
in popular movies. This book has been chosen by the
Writers Guild of America (WGA) Mentors
Program for inclusion in its list of recommended
screenwriting books and is described as "one of the
best books on story structure." A revised and
expanded edition of this book has been published as
The Megahit Movies. The French translation of
this book was published in Paris in 2003 by Editions
Dixit as Les Cles Des Plus Grands Succes
Cinematographiques. Richard's new
screenwriting book, Story Design: Creating Popular
Hollywood Movies, was published in 2004. Richard
has taught Story Design and Screenwriting Seminars
in cities throughout the world, including London,
Copenhagen, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orlando,
Las Vegas, New York, and Hollywood.
Shelly Mellott, Editor-in-Chief, Scr(i)pt
Magazine(www.ScriptMag.com). Shelly was the
manager of the LA Expo Pitch Sessions 2003-2005.
Lesley Bracker, The Writers Channel
(www.WritersChannel.net). Founder of The
Writer's Channel and an independent film
producer and script consultant. Lesley has worked at
ICM and Warner Brothers, and sold
several TV and film projects. She is currently
producing an independent film, Better Living
Through Chaos.
Paul Levine, Entertainment Lawyer-Literary
Agent. Paul specializes in the
representation of writers, producers, directors,
actors, production companies and theatre companies.
He also represent, as a literary agent, adult, children,
and young adult fiction and non-fiction book authors.
Other Hollywood Agents and Producers have
been invited (such as ICM, William Morris Agency,
Dimension Films and Zinkler Films).Their names will be
added to the list above once they have confirmed
that they will attend.
$150 Early Registration Fee before Dec. 31,
2004
$195 Registration Fee after Jan. 1, 2005
