NEW! Panels & Workshops at DIFF 2007
Durango Independent Film Festival February 28 - March 4, 2007!
Writing Workshop:
Cardboard Characters: How to Avoid Creating One-Dimensional People
Instructor: Darren Foster
Darren is on Staff at the Santa Fe Screenwriters Conference, is a founding Board Member of the Vail Film Festival and makes a living as a screenwriter!
Duration: 2 Hours
Cost: $40
Too often we read scripts with cardboard characters. One-dimensional. Character development is one of the most critical elements to a good story, and often the most overlooked. Do you really understand your characters? In this workshop we'll work with character introductions, dialogue, archetypes, character arcs, back stories, flaws, and much more.
Writing Workshop:
Hollywood Virgin: What Does It Take to Get Your First Screenplay Read in Hollywood
Instructor: Darren Foster
Darren is on Staff at the Santa Fe Screenwriters Conference, is a founding Board Member of the Vail Film Festival and makes a living as a screenwriter!
Duration: 2 Hours
Cost: $40
Okay, you?ve written your wonderful screenplay and you?re trying to decide who to thank at your Oscar acceptance speech. Admit it. We?ve all done it. But first, you might need to get the movie made. ?Ay, there?s the rub.? So, what?s your next step? How do you get past the iron gates of Hollywood ? What does it take to get that screenplay into the hands of a producer? In this workshop we?ll discuss how to break into both the Indie and Hollywood markets. Hollywood is closer than you think. So what are you waiting for?
Generalist Film Workshop:
Hollywood 101: How the Movie and Television Business works, and How to make it work for You
Instructor: Joseph Seldner
Has produced films with Paramount Pictures, Tom Hanks and has worked at Columbia Pictures.
Duration: 4 Hours
Cost: $75
This seminar takes you from the conception of an idea to the realization of that idea on the big or small screen (including, these days, computer screens.) It focuses on who you meet along the way (e.g., agents, producers, actors, studio execs, etc.) and how to deal with all issues from preserving the rights and integrity of your idea to finding the money to make it happen.
There will also be a FREE Workshop on: The Internet and How it can be a productive and cost effective Marketing Tool for an Independent Filmmaker and Three to Four Exciting and Entertaining Panels with Subjects TBD. All Panels will also be FREE.
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