Orlando Story Design Workshop &
PitchXchange
Saturday February 19, 2005 in Orlando,
Florida
9:00-10:00 Pitch Coaching Class 1
10:00-11:00 Story Design - Creating Popular
Movies
11:00-12:00 Creating Humorous Characters &
Scenes
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break and Networking
1:00-2:00 Pitch Coaching Class 2
2:00-3:00 11 Simple Steps to Write Like a
Pro
3:00-4:00 Getting Hollywood
Representation
4:00-5:00 Direct-to-DVD Movie Making
5:00-6:00 Hollywood Screenwriting Business
Panel
8:00-12:00 Networking with Agents &
Producers Party
Pitch your script to Movie Producers and
Agents.
Pitch Sessions: 9:00-5:00 -- Each
Session lasts for seven (7) 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. Charges for Pitch
Sessions are in addition to Workshop Registration Fee.
$25 for each pitch or 5 pitches for $100.
MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY GUESTS
Richard Michaels Stefanik, RMS Productions
Company, (www.TheMegahitMovies.com).
Richard is Director of the DVD Movie Making
Group at the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) in Washington, DC. He teaches
digital video movie making to members of the
IMF and the World Bank.
Richard also 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 comedy movie, Henry
Dodd, released on DVD in 2004. His second
romantic comedy as Producer-Director, Once Upon
a Blue Moon, is now is pre-production and will be
released in 2005.
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 Award
Winning Movies, will be published in 2005.
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 2002-2004.
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, and production
companies. He also represent, as a literary agent,
adult, children, and young adult fiction and non-
fiction book authors.
Mike Esola, William Morris Agency
Mike worked in Reality TV and also in development at
Outlaw Productions in West Hollywood, before joining
the Motion Picture Lit Department of the William
Morris Agency.
