WGA Foundation Event: “First Draft to Feature 2015”
Another great event from the Writers’ Guild Foundation: “First Draft to Feature 2015”.
Tip to GITS readers: Read this post all the way to the end!!!
Sat, March 28, 2015
9:00 AM — 6:00 PM
PANELISTS ANNOUNCED!
- Greg Beal — Director of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
- Evan Daugherty — DIVERGENT, SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN
- Leslie Dixon — MRS. DOUBTFIRE, PAY IT FORWARD
- Matt Dy — Director of the Austin Film Festival Screenplay and Teleplay Competitions
- Jason Hall — AMERICAN SNIPER, PARANOIA
- Rick Jaffa — AVATAR 2 & 3, DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
- Adam Kolbrenner — Manager/Producer at MADHOUSE ENTERTAINMENT
- Ashley Edward Miller — X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, THOR
- Barbara Morgan — Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Austin Film Festival, Producer
- Pamela Ribon — Memoir “Notes to Boys (And Other Things I Shouldn’t Share in Public),” novelist, screenwriter, actor, and blogger
- Edward Ricourt — A.K.A. JESSICA JONES, NOW YOU SEE ME
- Terry Rossio — NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN TRILOGY & ON STRANGER TIDES
- Amanda Silver — AVATAR 2 & 3, DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
- Robin Swicord — MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, MATILDA
For 2015’s spring craft symposium, the Writers Guild Foundation joins forces with the Austin Film Festival for the second year in a row to help you finish your first draft, get through your first rewrite, or finish that final polished draft. Get your screenplay ready to submit to a competition, an agent, a manager, or a producer with a full day of panels discussing how to take apart that story and turn it into something special.
PROGRAM:
PANEL 1: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY FIRST DRAFT: Deconstructing the First Draft — If you have an outline for a first draft, vomited out a first draft, or have the best first draft ever, then find out how to start retooling it and making your second draft even better.
PANEL 2: ONCE UPON A REWRITE: Writers on Rewriting — There are a lot of drafts in between your first draft and your final draft. How do you know when you’re finished? What is always wrong draft after draft, and how can you fix it? How do you approach rewriting someone else’s work?
PANEL 3: A FISTFUL OF NOTES: Notes on Notes — How do you respond to feedback that you disagree with? How do you implement notes into revisions? How do you tighten or trim an already tight story?
PANEL 4: FOR A FEW REWRITES MORE: The Gatekeepers — What are the common mistakes in work that is perhaps submitted too early? How do you maintain a reader’s attention? What should you expect in a meeting with Executives, producers, agents, managers, and competition directors?
OH YEAH AND ONE OR TWO MORE THINGS. We will have an amazing display of vintage scripts and screenwriting ephemera from the Writers Guild Foundation Archive. We’ll be giving out some awesome prizes like copies of Final Draft and coverage from the Austin Film Festival, during our trivia contests. And our favorite food trucks will be on hand for lunch.
Tickets are still only 65 bucks — the lowest price for a day-long event like this.
BUT if you want to go to Staff Writer to Showrunner 2015 on April 18th at the Writers Guild Theater too, then you can get both tickets for $100! That’s 2 full days, 8 panels, 6 food trucks, 30 dollars off, and a lot of giveaways to help you navigate the industry!
Doors open at 9AM.
First panel is at 10AM.
If you have any questions, then email our Programs Director Chris.
Proceeds benefit the Writers Guild Foundation Library and Archive and other Foundation outreach programs.
Thanks to the Austin Film Festival for partnering with us on First Draft to Feature 2015!
Okay, great stuff. But here’s something even better: Go Into The Story has secured 10 free tickets to this event. If you haven’t won a GITS contest during 2015 or 2014, head to comments and type: WGA OR BUST! The first 10 people who respond get a free ticket to this excellent day-long event.
But wait, there’s more! If you don’t secure a free ticket, you can get $10 off by using this coupon code: GOINTOTHESTORY. Note: The code is limited to the first 20 people who use it.
For more information, go here.
But 10 of you have the opportunity for a free ticket. Head to comments and type: WGA OR BUST! The first 10 win!
For the WGA Foundation website, go here.
UPDATE: So far 8 of the 10 winners of the free tickets have contacted me with their email address. They are: Eric Jordan Baker, Ashley Cook, Karl Harpur, Ian Scott McCullough, Jason Park, Sarah Soderquist, Kallie Tenney, and Jonathan Witz. Still waiting on:
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Alex Jeffrey
I need for Jacob and Alex to email me ASAP: GITSblog at gmail dot com. If I don’t hear from you by midnight Pacific tonight, I’ll move on to the alternates.
UPDATE #2: We have our 10 winners of the free tickets to the upcoming First Draft to Feature 2015 event sponsored by the Writers Guild of America Foundation. They are: Eric Jordan Baker, Ashley Cook, Madelyn Curly, Karl Harpur, Mark Kelly, Ian Scott McCullough, Jason Park, Sarah Soderquist, Kallie Tenney, and Jonathan Witz. Congratulations! Your names will be on a list at the door. Parking cost $5. Otherwise everything else is free.
Remember: There is a $10 discount for those who buy a ticket. Just enter the coupon code: GOINTOTHESTORY. Note: The code is limited to the first 20 people who use it.
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