Screenwriting Expo: Quest for the Golden Pitch

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Published on Sunday, 11 September 2011 05:00

Written by L E Shannon

The 7th annual Screenwriting Expo is being held September 15 - 18, 2011 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport (LAX) Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

This Expo is "the biggest, most comprehensive, and most prestigious educational and networking meeting of screenwriter and aspiring screenwriters in the world."

The event features:

• notable Guests of Honor, including
  • Kurt Wimmer (Total Recall, new)
  • Shane Salerno (Oliver Stone's Savages, now shooting)
  • Ben Ripley (Source Code)
  • Charlie Vignola (Pirates of the Caribbean series)
  • Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz (Fringe, X-Men: First Class, Thor)
  • Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby (Cowboys and Aliens)
  • Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (Charlie‛s Angels, new)
  • Vlas and Charley Parlapanides (Immortals)
• an on-site scene-writing competition for a prize of $20,000, awarded on-site, and other prizes
• more than 200 educational seminars and sessions with teachers and speakers from all media, some of whom are:
  • Pilar Alessandra
  • Christine Conradt   
  • Barry DeVorzon   
  • Michael Ferris   
  • Syd Field
  • Jen Grisanti   
  • Heather Hale
  • Chris Hammond
  • Marilyn Horowitz
  • Karl Iglesias
  • Steve Kaplan   
  • Corey Mandell  
  • Dara Marks
  • Joaquin F. Palma
  • Victoria Wisdom      
  • Terri Zinner 

The biggest event of all is the Golden Pitch Festival, "the biggest screenplay pitch festival in existence." Nearly 60 of Hollywood‛s A-list producers, development executives, agents and managers are gathered in one room for new screenwriters to have rare access.  

Some of the panels and seminars are:

• Loglines, Query Letters and One-Sheets  
• Why Most People Fail at Screenwriting
• Talk Is Cheap: Thirteen Principles for Dialogue
• Creating and Pitching Series Ideas for Television    
• 8 Ways to Ruin Your TV Pitch
• How to Write an Original TV Pilot Script
• Breaking into Reality TV: Two Screenwriters Tell How
• The Graphic Novel is the Next Screenplay
• Comic Book Graphic Novel Screenwriting 101
• Vampires, Zombies, and Ghosts: Writing Horror That Doesn’t Suck, Bite, or Fall Over Dead
• Crowdfunding Your Film
• How to Find the Right Buyer for Your Project
• A Real Live Film Financier Tells Which Screenplays Sell and Why
• Legal Tips Every Screenwriter Should Know to Make Money and Avoid Getting Ripped Off   

Also including in the programs will be several Product Demonstrations and Software Classes, including Final Draft 8 and Logline.

For more information, go to screenwritingexpo.com.

And for those of you joining the Golden Pitch, best of luck!

Screenwriting Expo 2011
September 15 - 18, 2011

Westin Los Angeles Airport (LAX) Hotel
5400 W Century Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-216-5858

The Writers Store, Inc.
3510 West Magnolia Blvd.
Burbank CA, 91505
800-272-8927
310-441-5151