EVENT: 2 JULY
"The biggest mistakes many comedy writers and performers make is...trying to anticipate what will work and worrying about not pleasing enough of the audience rather than relying on their own instincts...Comedy is the art of telling the truth about yourself and about other people. It's about telling true stories." - Steve Kaplan. Script to Screen presents seminars with renowned US comedy expert Steve Kaplan.
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EVENT: 3 JUNE
Internationally acclaimed Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (Bad Boy Bubby, The Tracker, Dance Me to My Song, Ten Canoes) is returning to New Zealand and will hold half-day seminars for screenwriters, directors, and producers in Christchurch and Dunedin. Using his own work for case studies Rolf will focus on the relationship between budget level and story ideas, and the crafting of low budget cinema for the international marketplace.
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NEWS: 9 MAY 2010
Call for Applications: deadline 27 May. Script to Screen is pleased to announce that renowned US comedy expert Steve Kaplan will travel to New Zealand to work intensively with two selected writers on their comedy feature scripts as part of our Te Ao Marama Creative Development Series 2010. Steve Kaplan is the most highly sought-after comedy expert in the US.
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EVENT: 14 MAY
This June Script to Screen in association with CoLab and Nga Aho Whakaari will run a digital media workshop. Up to nine selected teams will spend a weekend producing a 2-minute story-based project for the mobile phone or internet, under the tutelage of experienced practitioners Laurent Antonczak, Bevin Linkhorn, Simon Marler and Pita Turei.
Application Deadline: 14 May
Workshop: 11-13 June, AUT University, Auckland.
The workshop is open…
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EVENT: 22 APRIL
Killer Films' producer Cristine Vachon is at the forefront of independent American cinema having made many successful, critically acclaimed and much talked about features including Poison, Kids, Happiness, Boys Don't Cry, Far from Heaven and I'm Not There. This month Christine Vachon is taking a one day seminar in Auckland.
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NEWS: 24 MARCH 2010
Call for applications! Deadline 9 April. New York producer Christine Vachon of Killer Films is coming to New Zealand to work intensively on two selected local feature projects and to take a one-day seminar as part of Script to Screen's Te Ao Marama Creative Development Series.
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