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ScriptBiz™Returned in 2009!

And it had a new look and an exciting one-day focus; August 3rd

Local 121, Located at 121 Washington Street, Providence, RI

2009 Application Form, click here to download

• Read the News Release on this Year's Program, click here

• ScriptBiz™ Shorts Winners Announced

(as of 07/27/09)

FIRST PLACE: The Petty Rivalries of Mary and Cathleen by Rachel Guerrier,i Worcester, MA

SECOND PLACE: Le Plume (The Pen) by Paige Kane, Newport, RI

THIRD PLACE: Stones by Kal Weber, Los Angeles, CA

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This Year's ScriptBiz™ Workshop Fees:

$110 for the one day program

Attention all scriptwriters with a story inside that is trying to get out:  sign-up now for RIIFF’s ScriptBiz™ screenwriter’s workshop August 3rd"

Order Your Pass Today:

ScriptBiz™ 2009: Monday, August 3rd:

For more information on ScriptBiz '09, call the RIIFF offices at (401) 861-4445.

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ScriptBiz is one-day workshop that explores how to hone your

creative and business skills

Trying to navigate through the Hollywood system?  Tired of receiving rejection after rejection? 

The 13th Annual Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) proudly presents ScriptBiz.09, a one day workshop that covers the nuts and bolts of being a screenwriter.  This year’s topic is “Make Your Own Success as a Writer” and is geared toward promoting yourself as a writer, finding producers, and networking your way to success.  .

This year’s annual ScriptBiz takes place August 3rd, at the Local 121, centrally located at 121 Washington Street, in downtown Providence, RI. On Monday, the workshop begins at 9 a.m. and runs to 5:30 p.m. The fee is $110. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Beverages will be provided both in the morning and during the noontime break giving panelists and attendees an opportunity to network and discuss scriptwriting one-on-one.

To apply to the 2009 ScriptBiz™ workshop, fill out and submit the downloadable application below. In celebration of this year’s 13th Annual RIIFF, students, stay-at-home parents, and previous Scriptbiz™ participants may call for a discount from the cost of the workshop's day pass.

For information, please contact RIIFF at info@film-festival.org, or call the Festival Office at 401/861-4445.

Apply to ScriptBiz™ 2009

2009 Application Form, click here to download

The Program & Workshops from 2009:

Program Schedule:   

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration 

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. “Make Your Own Success” Panel with Chris Sparling (Scarred Heels Productions), Ted Delaney (The Times Were Never So Bad),  Dave Bettencourt (You Must Be This Tall, On the Lake) , Nathan Catucci (Obscura Pictures) and Kim Polson (Producer)

12:00 p.m.  -  1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.  "The Write Approach Workshop" with Ron Tippe (Producer of Space Jam, Everyone’s Hero). A 3-hour, interactive screenwriting course that will focus on the basic elements of writing for the movies.

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Stage performance of 2008 Grand Prize Screenplay Winner  by actors from AHTSPOT.com.,  directed by Daniel Lee White. The screenplay: "The Placeholder" by Amy Neswald; USA. The plotline: Everybody Bean dates can’t help but to find love with someone else. While searching for a new sublet apartment, she gives 'love' a break.

ALL SCRIPTBIZ PARTICIPANTS ARE INVITED TO THE
2009 RIIFF KICK-OFF PARTY TUESDAY EVENING!

Please Note: Former ScriptBiz Participants, Students, Faculty, RIIFF volunteers, Stay at Home Parents deduct ten percent.

REFUNDS: Refunds, minus a $50 office fee, will be available until July 15, 2009. After that date NO REFUNDS will be made. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding.

Who Is Who at ScriptBiz 2009:

David Bettencourt is the founder of Midway Pictures, a Rhode Island-based film and television production company.

Most recently, Bettencourt produced and directed, On the Lake: Life and Love in a Distant Place, a documentary detailing the history of the tuberculosis epidemic. The film is currently airing on PBS stations across the country.

Bettencourt also produced and directed You Must Be This Tall: The Story of Rocky Point Park, an independent feature documentary about Rhode Island's beloved former amusement park. The film spent seven weeks on screen in regional cinemas and won numerous awards, as well as a five-star review from Michael Janusonis of the Providence Journal.

Bettencourt lives in Rhode Island with his wife, Marisa, and their three boys.

Nathan Catucci recently founded Obscura Pictures, LLC a full service multimedia production company based in New York City. Nathan directed several short films and a spec commercial while in film school at New York University, where he graduated with Honors. His most recent short film CRUSHER was awarded a Certificate of Merit for Cinematic Excellence from the 2008 Rochester International Film Festival, and was an Official Selection of the 2008 Los Angeles International Short Film Festival and the New York State Emerging Filmmakers Series. Nathan is currently in development with his first feature film ENDLESS NIGHT based on the award winning short CRUSHER.

IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3066548/

Edward J. Delaney • about • Interview

Edward J. Delaney is an award-winning author, journalist, filmmaker and educator.

Delaney is currently Assistant Editor of The Nieman Journalism Lab, at The Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University. He was a 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellow, a winner of the 2005 PEN/Winship Award for Fiction, and a past winner of an O. Henry Prize for short story writing. His work has been in Best American Short Stories.  His books include the novel "Warp & Weft" and the collection "The Drowning and Other Stories," He is the co-author of "Born to Play," by Boston Red Sox second baseman and 2008 American League Most Valuable Player Dustin Pedroia.

Delaney has also directed and produced a documentary film, "The Times Were Never So Bad: The Life of Andre Dubus," which premiered in 2007. It received a first place at The Rhode Island International Film Festival. His screenplay “Umbrella Man,” from his story “Conspiracy Buffs” is to be shot in 2010 by director Michael Grasso.

Kim Polson • email

Kim Polson, Producer and Director of Development has worked in feature films with Alan Paula, live television, Broadway, and benefit concerts. Her projects include: Saturday Night Live, Barbara Walters Specials, Night Music with David Sanborn; Drama Desk Awards; as well as concerts at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center with Gladys Knight, Dionne Warwick, The Temptations &  4 Tops, Frankie Valli, Chuck Mangione, and a Tribute to Ella with Patti Austin and the Count Basie Orchestra. She recently moved to Rhode Island and started 212 Providence:  What Cheer, New Yorkers? -  a social, professional, and fundraising network for fellow New Yorkers who re-located to Providence.  

Chris Sparling is a writer/director originally from Providence, RI. His company, Scarred Heel Productions, produced the NetFlix- and HBO-released feature film An Uzi at the Alamo, the award-winning dramatic short film Balance. He also wrote the screenplay for the upcoming feature film Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds, which is being produced by The Safran Company. In addition to associate producing the feature-length documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, Chris has also produced and directed a number of television and commercial productions for clients including Pepsi, Starbucks, Snuggle, Kimberly Clark, Dannon, Dove, and Target. He has also served as an adjunct professor of screenwriting at Boston University, Emerson College, and Holyoke Community College.

Randy Steinberg graduated with a master's degree in Film (concentration in Screenwriting) from Boston University in 1998. Since 1999, he has taught screenwriting at BU as both a part-time and full-time faculty member. Currently, he continues to teach screenwriting as an adjunct while also holding the position of Motion Picture Industry Coordinator (MPIC) for BU's Film and Television\ Department. In the role of MPIC, Randy promotes the work of film and television students to festivals, the media, and the industry. As a screenwriter, Randy has had several screenplays optioned by producers in Los Angeles. As a writer for hire, he recently wrote a script for a producer which was shopped to the Lifetime and Hallmark channels. He also served as a story consultant on a webisode series that is in development. Currently, Randy and his writing partner are working with an LA-based management company on a period, epic screenplay. For more info please visit www.scriptsages.com.

Ron Tippe • about

Producer at IMAGI Animation Studios

Ron Tippe has been in the entertainment business for 37 years. He began
as a stage director and spent the first 9 years of his career directing
stage plays at various companies in New England. In addition, he was a
founding member and artistic director of the Incredibly Far
Off-Broadway Ensemble Theatre, which specialized in new play production
and staged productions set in different environmental locations. Ron
spent the next few years as a director of TV commercials, industrial
and education films, after which he spent years as a writer in Hollywood, CA. In 1994, Ron segued into the Feature Animation business when he produced the first Mickey Mouse short film, RUNAWAY BRAIN, which was nominated for an Oscar. At the same time he was the managing director of the Walt Disney Feature Animation Studio in Paris, France. Ron then went on to produce the hit film, SPACE JAM, at Warner Bros' Feature Animation studio. He subsequently worked at Dreamworks Feature Animation where he produced the pre-production for the hit film, SHREK. The next few years were spent working at George Lucas's ILM for a digital version of FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN, and at Warner Bros' Feature Animation producing a remake of the classic, MR. LIMPET. In 2004, he had the wonderful honor to work with Christopher Reeve on EVERYONE'S HERO, an animated feature for 20th Century Fox. In 2007, he produced the pre-production for Imagi Feature Animation Studios, GATCHAMAN. In 2008, Ron accepted a Visiting Professorship at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. Ron is also a certified Life Coach specializing in issues of story telling and the creative process. He is also the founder of THE WRITE APPROACH, a RI based screen writing workshop whose debut will be made during the RIIFF 2009 season. Ron is married to Hollywood Costume Designer, Molly Maginnis. They have two children, Annie and Sam, and two pug dogs, Lucky and Lulu.

Apply to ScriptBiz 2009

2009 Application Form, click here to download

Program Coordinator for 2009:

Jenn Dlugos • email

Consultants:

George T. Marshall, Ron Tippe and Duncan Putney

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