Learn how to market your script and build your career
How important is understanding production to grasping the craft of screenwriting?
Is it necessary to go to film school to succeed as a screenwriter?
How hard is it to transition from some other area of focus related to filmmaking into screenwriting?
These are just some of the topics to be covered in the newest Screenwriting Master Class course: “Network Hollywood.” Query letters, genre strategies, contests, working with managers and agents, choosing the right stories to write, virtually everything you need to know about taking the next step in your journey as a screenwriter.
Taught by Tom Benedek, this 2-week online class [July 25-August 6] features live webinars with 6 industry professionals: Peter Benedek [founding partner of United Talent Agency], Dan Halsted [manager-producer, Manage-Ment], Josh Heald [screenwriter, Hot Tub Time Machine], Sean Hood [screenwriter, Conan the Barbarian 3-D]], Adam Kolbrenner [manager, Madhouse Entertainment], Robert Lawrence [producer, Die Hard with a Vengeance], and Stanley Weiser [screenwriter, Wall Street]. For more information, go here.
Today’s featured guest is Sean Hood:
Sean Hood (Conan the Barbarian 3 D) is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and teacher best known for horror films but more recently for action/thrillers. After graduating from Brown University with a double major pure mathematics and studio art, Sean spent several years working in Hollywood as a set dresser, prop assistant and art director working with filmmakers as diverse as James Cameron, David Fincher and David Lynch. He began writing and directing his own films in 1992 as a founding member of Filmmaker’s Alliance. He continued his studies at USC’s school of Cinema/Television, graduating in 1997 with an MFA in production. His student film, The Shy and the Naked (1998), won a grant from the Sloan Foundation as well as a CINE Golden Eagle award. After finishing film school, Sean got his “break” when his first major spec script, The Dorm, was purchased by MTV/Paramount in 2000. Since then, while working on genre features such as Conan and television series such as NBC’s Fear Itself, his involvement with Filmmaker’s Alliance has continued. He was recently awarded Los Angeles Short Filmmaking Grant, presented to him by Eastman Kodak at the Directors Guild of America, for his short film Melancholy Baby.
In addition to the live webinars and Q&A sessions with these industry insiders, the class also includes written lectures you can download, analyze, and keep for future reference, online forum discussions, and the opportunity to do weekly workshop assignments on your own stories and receive feedback from other writers participating in the class as well as Tom himself.
This is a terrific opportunity to shrink the gap between you and Hollywood.
The 2-week online class begins next Monday, July 25. For more information and to enroll, go here.