The BlueCat Screenwriting Workshop: LONDON

August 12-17, 2008

Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7HX

REGISTER HERE: http:// www.bluecatscreenplay.com/workshop/london.php



Gordy Hoffman, the award-winning writer/director (LOVE LIZA, A COAT OF SNOW) and
founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, will travel to the UK this August
to lead a week of screenwriting workshops at the University of London.

The creative principles of the workshops were borne out of over a decade of
experience of judging the only major script competition in the world helmed by a
produced screenwriter, a writer who continues to write today.

The BlueCat workshops help the writer develop the authentic, original voice
behind every story that impacts the emotions of the audience, the essence of all
commercially and artistically successful films.

If you care passionately about your script and story, this week will provide the
tools to transform your commitment and concern into a compelling film.




THE BLUECAT SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP
09:00 - 17:00 on August 16, 17 in room B35 Malet Street
Cost: £150

The screenplay is creative writing. It is imagination in action, the heart of
every experience of the writer speaking truthfully and generously.

Writing creatively for the screen has no method, no formula, no rigid worksheets
to comply with or enforceable rules hanging on a wall somewhere. Every
conformity or formula determined and “discovered” by the screenwriting
establishment can be blown apart by some of our most beloved movies.

But what cannot be argued away is that every classic movie we love has affected
us emotionally.

This is always true.

There are principles of authentic storytelling. Yes. But these are not learned,
but remembered from our own experiences of living our lives. The ability to tell
a story lies inside every human being.

Writers will engage in writing and pitching exercises designed to flesh out new
ideas or rework existing scripts. Please bring your laptops and/or paper and
pen.

If each person is indeed unique, it follows simply that each writer is unlike
any other, and can write a story no one else on Earth can. This purpose is the
mission of this workshop.

09:00 - 17:00 on August 16, 17 in room B35 Malet Street
Cost: £150


REGISTER HERE:
www.bluecatscreenplay.com/workshop/london.php




THE TEN PAGE WORKSHOP
18:30 – 23:00 on August 12, 13, 14 in room 629 Malet Street
Cost: £125


These workshops will consist of 5 writers each submitting ten pages of a work in
progress in advance. We will go over each work individually, discussing the
specific, unique challenges each writer is facing on the page. This discussion
will include the technical aspects of description and dialogue, the depth and
reality of the characters, and how the ten pages reflect where the entire story
goes.

The intimate, focused interaction with fellow writers in the workshop will
provide all with a greater understanding of the work that lies ahead on their
screenplay, and more importantly, a detailed sense of how they might develop as
writers themselves.


18:30 – 23:00 on August 12 in room 629 Malet Street
Cost: £125

18:30 – 23:00 on August 13 in room 629 Malet Street
Cost: £125

18:30 – 23:00 on August 14 in room 629 Malet Street
Cost: £125



REGISTER HERE:
www.bluecatscreenplay.com/workshop/london.php





Bio of Gordy Hoffman
Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival
for LOVE LIZA, Gordy Hoffman made his feature directorial debut with his script,
A COAT OF SNOW, which world premiered at the 2005 Locarno Intl Film Festival. A
COAT OF SNOW made its North American Premiere at the Arclight in Hollywood,
going on to screen at the Milan Film Festival and the historic George Eastman
House. A COAT OF SNOW won the 2006 Domani Vision Award at VisionFest, held at
the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City. Gordy is the founder and judge of the
BlueCat Screenplay Competition and teaches screenwriting at the USC School of
Cinematic Arts. He is currently writing a movie about Los Angeles.

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