ScriptBiz™2012 Rewired

Exciting, thought provoking & inspiring: Friday, August 10th

2012 Application Form, click here to download Coming

2012 ScriptBiz™ Workshop Fees:

$90 for the day-long program

& includes lunch from Panera Bread and tickets to our evening performances

Attention all scriptwriters with a story inside that is trying to get out...

Sign-up now for RIIFF’s ScriptBiz™ Screenwriter’s Workshop.

For more information on ScriptBiz11, call the RIIFF offices at (401) 861-4445.

ScriptBiz™ is a day-long workshop that explores how to hone your

creative and business skills

 
Trying to write your first script? Worrying about how to pitch your script more effectively to potential investors? Moving a completed script into production? Learn from the best at the Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival’s 11th Annual ScriptBiz program!

For an entry fee of only $90, emerging screenwriters can hone their skills by interacting with and learning from seasoned industry professionals. This year’s program, entitled “From Page to Screen,” takes screenwriters through the entire screenwriting process, with panel discussions on the ins and outs of writing a script and the business aspects of getting a script into production, as well as a special workshop on “pitching your script.”

ScriptBiz takes place on Friday, August 10th, in downtown Providence, RI. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. and the program runs from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The fee is $90. Call 401.861.4445.

To apply to the 2012 ScriptBiz™ workshop, fill out and submit the downloadable application below:

2012 Application Form, click here to download (coming)

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

Here's our ScriptBiz™ 2011 Schedule as Model:

9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Registration 

 

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Panel on “The Scriptwriting Process”

• Dana Biscotti Myskowski (moderator & panelist)

• Nick Iandolo

• Buzz Mclaughlin

• Bill Torgerson

• John Woodard

 

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

LUNCH catered by Panera Bread

 

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Workshop on Pitching a Script

• Nick Iandolo

 

2:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.

BREAK

 

2:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Panel on “The Business of Scriptwriting”

• Dana Biscotti Myskowski (moderator & panelist)

• Andrew Lund

• Reshad Kulenovic

• Chris Sparling

Please Note: Accepted filmmakers can sign up for free.

REFUNDS: Refunds, minus a $25 office fee, will be available until July 15, 2012. After that date NO REFUNDS will be made. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding.

Who-Was-Who at ScriptBiz 2011:

Nicholas Iandolo, author of the concise, sometimes controversial, and often-times no BS book on screenwriting Cut The Crap and WRITE THAT DAMN SCREENPLAY! is a long-time writer and strong supporter of the Rhode Island Film Industry. A member of the Rhode Island Film Collaborative and the New England Talent and Crew, Iandolo has been actively involved in helping to bring film projects to New England. Recently, he attended the 2011 Great American PitchFest held in Burbank, California, seeking producers to launch new film projects based on his Boston & Providence-set screenplays.

Iandolo has been a creative, business, marketing, freelance, and motivational writer for many years. He gives frequent speaking engagements geared towards helping his listeners find and follow their passion.

A Boston native, married to a Providence native, Iandolo spends a great deal of time writing stories about this charm and beauty of this region in his books, screenplays, and travel articles (which can be read on BeantownSocialite.com).

Reshad Kulenovic - is a writer/director based in Rhode Island and New York. He has worked in the production department of numerous films and TV shows, including THE EDUCATION OF CHARLIE BANKS and in the camera department for the Newport Jazz Festival. He has been awarded the Antonio Cirino Memorial Art Fellowship and the University of Rhode Island gave him the first ever President's Award for Excellence in Film. For his short film SNOVI he became one of the first artists to be funded by the Heinrich Boll Foundation. Another producer of SNOVI was the Centre Andre Malraux Sarajevo, which also produced Jean-Luc Godard’s NOTRE MUSIQUE. SNOVI is nominated for a 2011 Student Academy Award.

He is currently writing his follow up film and teaching in the film department at the University of Rhode Island.

Andrew Lund, a filmmaker and entertainment attorney, is an Assistant Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College – CUNY. In addition to “Vanaja,” He is the executive producer of the independent features “Vanaja,” “Confess,” and “Arranged”. Lund also serves as legal advisor on narrative and documentary film projects and as a script consultant.

As a writer and director, Lund’s short films have won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, appeared on PBS, ABC and major networks in Europe and Japan, and are distributed both theatrically and non-theatrically. His latest films have garnered prestigious grant support, including “Snapshot” currently playing on the festival circuit and “Lost and Found” now in post-production.

You can learn more about Andrew on his website: http://andrewlundfilms.com/

Buzz McLaughlin, is an independent feature film producer and partner in Either/Or Films (www.eitherorfilms.com) which produced The Sensation of Sight (www.thesensationofsight.com) starring Academy Award Best Actor nominee David Strathairn. The film had it’s festival premiere at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain, screened at 16 other festivals on 5 continents, including the New Hampshire Film Festival where it won the Best Feature Award, and subsequently has been distributed domestically on all platforms. Buzz is currently in development with Either/Or Films’ next feature Someplace Like America (www.eitherorfilms.com/upcoming.html).

A writer who has written many plays and screenplays, including Sister Calling My Name which won the National Play Award, Buzz is also the author of the best-selling book The Playwright’s Process and has spent over three decades as a dramaturg/teacher/consultant working with hundreds of emerging and established writers in theatre and film.

He holds a Ph.D in dramatic literature, has taught scriptwriting as Playwright-In-Residence for many years at Drew University, founded the Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey (www.ptnj.org), a professional theatre currently in its 25th year dedicated to the development of new plays, and currently runs a script consulting service (www.buzzmclaughlinscripts.com).

His blog on scriptwriting can be found at: www.buzzmclaughlinscripts.blogspot.com.

Dana Biscotti Myskowski is a screenwriter and founding producer with Green Chair Pictures. Dana is currently at work on two productions with colleagues: an episodic drama, THE PROVIDER, which is listed on IMDb Pro, and SANDY POINT, a short film to be shot on Block Island next spring.

She is the founding producer of Smoky Quartz Productions (SQP), the agency team created for the inaugural 2010 7DayPSA Competition hosted by FLICKERS, which won Best Public Service Announcement and earned an Emmy nomination for “To the Power of You,” produced for Big Sisters of Rhode Island. SQP won two 2011 Telly Awards for a seven-minute film produced for the Concord Boys & Girls Club. Dana continues to serve as producer and writer for the company as it creates videos for non-profit agencies.

A former professor at UNH, Dana serves as a Member of the Board of Directors for the NH Film Commission, as a founding member of Granite SoFFA (the NH Society of Female Film Artists), Director of the NH Film Festival Screenplay Competition, and as a judge for the NH 48-Hour Film Project.

She can be found at www.greenchairpictures.com and followed on twitter @biscottidana.

Chris Sparling is a writer/director originally from North Providence, RI. He wrote the critically-acclaimed feature film BURIED, starring Ryan Reynolds, which, after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, went on to win the Melies d'Or Award at the Sitges Film Festival and was later released by Lionsgate Films. He was awarded Best Original Screenplay by the National Board of Review, and also won a Goya Award (Spain's Academy Award) in the same category. In addition, he wrote the screenplay for the thriller ATM for Gold Circle Films, which is slated for release in 2011, as well as REINCARNATE for producer M. Night Shyamalan. Chris will next direct the supernatural drama FALLING SLOWLY, starring Mandy Moore, based on his screenplay. He has also served as an adjunct professor of screenwriting at Boston University and Emerson College, and continues to guest lecture at numerous film festivals and universities.

William J. Torgerson is an assistant professor in the Institute For Writing Studies at St. John's University in New York. His adaptation of Love on the Big Screen was awarded the Grand Prize in the Flickers Rhode Island International Screenplay Competition. In addition to novels and screenplays, William writes short stories and articles on teaching and writing, and his work has appeared most recently in the University of Maryland's Sakura, Old Dominion University's Barely South Review, and NYU's interdisciplinary journal Anamesa.

You can learn more about William on his website at TheTorg.com.

John Woodard has starred in numerous stage productions in San Jose and Santa Cruz as an actor. Winning The Northern Californian Theatre Alliance Award for Best Actor in “Equus.” He then went on to tour the country performing Children’s Theatre, and soon began writing well received plays for children. Since then, "The Berenstein Bears Jammin' Slammin' Revue" has toured throughout the Untied States and Canada, and "The Fairy Tale Network" and "Desperate Princesses" still run in schools today.J ohn then discovered standup comedy and quickly began winning competitions, including "Sundays Best" at The Ice House in Pasadena and has written for fellow comedians as well. His screenplays include "The Floating Of Hayes" a father-son drama based on a true rare mental ailment; "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame High School" Hugo's classic drama set in a current day high school; "Slasher: A Killer Comedy" a comedy horror, "Idolized" an urban buddy comedy, & "Chance Meetings" a gay romantic comedy, and current Barren Branches GLBT Grand Prize winner in The Rhode Island International Screenplay Competition. His Half hour Teleplays include "The Boys On June Street", "Showbiz Babies", & "'Hamilton and Hamilton".

Program Director for 2012:

J. Scott Oberacker

Consultants:

George T. Marshall

Duncan Putney

2012 Application Form, click here to download coming

FLICKERS: Rhode Island International Film Festival™

Mailing: P.O. Box 162, Newport, Rhode Island 02840 (United States)
Street Address: 36 Rhode Island Avenue, Newport, RI 02840

Office: 83 Park Street, Suite 1, Providence, RI 02903
Tel/Fax: (401) 861-4445 / 490-6735
info@film-festival.org

2011 Sponsors:

Buzz McLaughlin / Script Consulting

(www.buzzmclaughlinscripts.com)

(www.buzzmclaughlinscripts/blogspot.com)

(www.facebook.com/buzzmclaughinscriptconsulting)