Screenwriting
Film Co-op Training and Development - PAST!
(Intermediate - Theory and Hands-on)
June 19, Saturday, 10am - 4pm
Instructor: Gretchen Kelbaugh
Location: Saint John Free Public Library, 1 Market Sq., Saint John, New Brunswick
Fee: $20 For NBFC Members/
$30 For Non-Members
(Film Co-op Members are required to take at least one screenwriting course before they direct/produce their own projects through the Film Co-op)
Class Limit: 8
Pre-requisite - bring a synopsis (one page or less) for a movie idea (short or feature) which you haven't shot yet
Topics: -
- To tell or not to tell (will anyone but Mom care?)
- basic 3-act structure
- character and conflict; 'writing' sex and violence
- comedy and tragedy
- common errors
- giving and taking criticism; your synopses
INSTRUCTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
Filmmaker, teacher and author, Gretchen Kelbaugh twice won the AFF- CBC Script Development award. One of these, 106 Fire Hydrants, was produced for national CBC-TV.
Gretchen wrote and directed her feature, Margaret and Deirdre, whose screenplay won the national CBC Producers' Showcase in 1999. The movie won Best Screenplay at the Trail Dance Film Festival in 2008 and was nominated for Best Feature Drama and Best Foreign Film. It played at the AFF, Silver Wave and deReel International festivals. The trailer: http://gretchenkelbaugh.webs.com/mad.htm#278330742
Gretchen's short (writer, director) Piece o' Cake won Best No Budget Short at the Broad Humor Film Festival in California, screened in Australia, Italy and NB, and is now part of CBC-TV's Downloads program.
http://www.cbc.ca/download/contest_form.html
and click on Dec 18/09.
Gretchen's 2009 Menocracy, a feature doc about women and politics, is being distributed across Canada by Canadian Learning Co.
Trailer and first 10 min:
http://gretchk.webs.com/apps/videos/
websites:
http://www.storeyfirstproductions.ca
Http://www.menocracy.ca