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2008 Scriptscene Auction
Exclusive to RWA members!
The Scriptscene Chapter of RWA invites you to participate in our first auction. This exciting event is open only to RWA members.
In keeping with Scriptscene’s mission, our modest goals for the auction include: raising funds for Scriptscene to bring industry speakers to Scriptscene’s Mini-Conference, raising awareness about Scriptscene to RWA and the Hollywood community, increasing the screenwriting knowledge base of several members all at once (the winners of the auction items), and revitalizing our member’s dreams of being a screenwriter.
We’ve lined up a roster of high caliber experts to help us reach our goals. These reputable and talented individuals are all professionals working in the Hollywood industry today. They’ve donated a variety of useful services to fill the needs of members at various stages in their screenwriting careers, from those who’ve completed their first screenplay, to those preparing for their first pitching experience, to the advanced, produced screenwriter.
It’s up to you to accept this fantastic opportunity. Place your bids and boost your screenwriting career while supporting Scriptscene at the same time. You won’t find an opportunity like this anywhere else. It’s the kick in the pants you need to reach your own goals.
Auction Details:
The online auction will go live on June 11, 2008 and close at 11:59 pm (Eastern Standard Time) on July 2, 2008. Bidders must send their silent bid by email to: auction@scriptscene.org. (Please include your name, RWA number, and contact information with your bid). We will post the highest bid once a week and on July 2nd. Winners will be notified by email or telphone on July 6th and will have 48 hours to process their payment on Pay Pal at Scriptscene's web site. After payment, the winner will be e-introduced to their expert.
ITEM 1:
Private Consultation:
adapting your novel into a screenplay |
| Expert: Pilar Alessandra Biography |
Come in with a novel, leave with a feature.
Writing Instructor/Script Consultant Pilar Alessandra offers a private consultation guiding you towards adapting your novel into a screenplay. In this one-hour session you’ll make decisions about tone, character and story structure. www.onthepage.tv ~ $150.00 Value |
| CURRENT BID: $115.00 |
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ITEM 2:
| Line-by-Line Screenplay Critique |
| Expert: Neringa Bryant Biography |
A line-by-line critique of a screenplay by a screenwriter and producer Neringa Bryant.
$250.00 Value |
| CURRENT BID: $100.00 |
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ITEM 3:
| 10 Page Critique & Consultation |
| Expert: Devorah Cutler-Rubenstein Biography |
So much to do... establish the world of your story, establish your protagonist including goal, create rooting interest, establish the big problem, establish the genre, move your story forward, draw in your reader, show your storytelling prowess, so little time...
10 minutes of screen time = 10 pages of screenplay
Fact: You've only got ten pages to prove yourself. If your first ten don't work, agents, producers and publishers will often stop reading. Devorah, the Script Broker, is an experienced development and production pro and she'll give you honest feedback, including an eight-point 'crit chart' on how your first ten measure up. In person, on paper or on the phone, she'll help get your first ten pages looking like a million bucks. Her auction item includes a 1/2 hour consultation.
$450 Value for a screenplay - or -
$500 Value for a novel |
| CURRENT BID: $110.00 |
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ITEM 4:
| Career Consultation and Marketing Plan Stategy |
| Expert: Heather Hale Biography |
Heather Hale has donated a 45-minute phone consultation which you may use as you choose: for a career consultation, strategizing a marketing plan for a specific project, practicing your pitch, polishing a logline and leave-behind, even a review of the first ten pages of material – or any combination thereof, as time allows.
$150 Value |
| CURRENT BID: $110.00 |
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ITEM 5:
| Half-Hour Pitch Coaching Session |
| Expert: Michael Hauge Biography |
A complete, half-hour pitch coaching session with Hollywood script consultant and story expert Michael Hauge, best-selling author of Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds: The Guaranteed Way to Get Your Screenplay or Novel Read and Writing Screenplays That Sell. For a complete description go to Michael's web site at www.ScreenplayMastery.com.
$125 Value |
| CURRENT BID: $60.00 |
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ITEM 6:
| 30 Minute Marketing Phone Consultation |
| Expert: Karl Iglesias Biography |
Karl Iglesias screenwriters can receive a 30-min. phone consultation on the market potential of their screenplay idea (or ideas), or a screenplay in progress, including identification of problem areas and suggested solutions for further development. This is the best decision to make prior to wasting 6 months developing a flawed idea into a screenplay or novel that will never sell.
$50 Value |
| CURRENT BID: $75.00 |
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ITEM 7:
| One hour of consultation by phone, or written notes on your screenplay |
| Expert: William C. Martell Biography |
Your choice of either one hour of consultation by phone, or written notes on your screenplay. Notes will include feedback on Concept, First Ten Pages, Protagonist, Character Arc, Theme, Antagonist, Supporting Characters, Conflict, Structure, Pacing, Visual/Decsiption, Dialogue, Ending, and Marketability. Probably 9-10 pages.
$500 Value
Plus - one of the last copies of SECRETS OF ACTION SCREENWRITING - out of print, sold on e-bay for $750, regularly sells on Amazon for $300. |
| CURRENT BID: $90.00 |
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ITEM 8:
| Hour Consultation |
| Expert: Blake Snyder Biography |
"Learn the methods developed by Blake Snyder, author of the best sellers "Save the Cat!" and "Save the Cat Goes to the Movies" You can read the books then consult with Blake for an hour about any aspect of a screenplay you're working on from a basic concept to detailed questions about plot, character, and genre." Includes copies of each of Blake's books. This will give the winner a chance to get familiar with Blake's methods and ideas before the consultation. www.blakesnyder.com
Books $45 Value, Consultation $275.00 Value |
| CURRENT BID: $140.00 |
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ITEM 9:
| HOLLYWOOD BY PHONE: (Six-Month Membership) |
| Expert: Chris Soth Biography |
Network and interact LIVE with Hollywood's elite agents, managers, producers, filmmakers and studio executives, live, from home, on these conference call interviews. Hosted by Chris Soth of MillionDollarScreenwriting.com, each call consists of an interview with a working Hollywood Star, followed by live Q&A, your chance to get to know the people who read your work, and get them to know you too! Every call is recorded on MP3 for those who can't make it live. Make the connection with Hollywood By Phone -- it's OFF THE HOOK!
Normal prices: $47/month
Six-month subscription: $282
AND: Membership includes the Hollywood By Phone Archive "All-Access Pass" -- over a year of calls on MP3, many of them with query email addresses provided.
One year of calls: $564
Get your writing career "dialed in" with HollywoodByPhone.com!
$846 Total Value |
| CURRENT BID: $125.00 |
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ITEM 10:
| Short Film expert will read your short film script! |
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James Hughes Biography |
James Hughes is a Short Film expert and will read your short film script! Feedback will be given in the form of 3 pages of notes which will be emailed. With Hollywood's high interest in short material here is a fabulous opportunity to find out if your short script (up to 30 pages) can help launch your career. Do you know what Quentin Tarrantino, Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrahms, Joe Esterhaus, and many more have in common? They all started their careers with a short film. They got deals, got representation, and got funding.
http://www.james-hughes.com |
| CURRENT BID: $40.00 |
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EXPERT BIOGRAPHYS:
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Pilar Alessandra is the director of the popular writing program On the Page. Her screenwriting podcasts - with guests from within the industry - regularly appear in the film and TV top 100. She’s worked as Senior Story Analyst for DreamWorks and Radar pictures and first caught the “teaching bug” as an instructor with the UCLA Writers Program. Since creating On the Page in 2001, she’s trained writers and story analysts at ABC/Disney, Nickelodeon and MTV and and has taught at numerous writing conferences including The American Screenwriting Association, |
The FTX Film and Television Festival and Creative Screenwriting Magazine’s Screenwriting Expo where she’s an annual “Star Speaker.” Students and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers and Sony and have won prestigious competitions such as the Open Door Competition, Fade-In Competition and Nicholl Fellowship. “On the Page: the DVD,” a collection of Pilar’s ten-minute writing tools, is available at the Writers Store and through Amazon. |
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Neringa Bryant has been an RWA member since 1981. She has served as a speaker, board member, judge and committee chair at various local and regional RWA chapters; she has also been a speaker at a handful of RWA national conferences. In 1999, she initiated Scriptscene, an online chapter of RWA. Neringa wrote and produced a short, 35mm film Eternal Embrace, which is available on Amazon. Her feature script, Surrendered Spirit won first place in the Share the Dream contest. She has worked on a handful of films as Unit Production Manager, |
| Asst. Production Designer, Still Photographer, Production Assistant and various other capacities and continues to write screenplays. This summer she plans to direct a short, Who Murdered Mr. Wrinkles. Check out her website for more information: www.unicornshadow.com |
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Former Studio Exec Devorah Cutler-Rubenstein (DIRECTOR LITERARY AFFAIRS COLUMBIA PICTURES) is an accomplished writer, producer and director bridging both independent and mainstream media. Her Exec producing and producing credits include the features THE SUBSTITUTE starring Tom Berenger and SUBSTITUTE 2: SCHOOL’S OUT; television pilots TATTOO U for the FX Channel and |
| the award-winning documentary NOT AFRAID TO LAUGH about using humor to heal. On film and stage she has directed among others Jonathan Lipnicki, Oksana Lada, Annie Potts, William Forsythe and Poppy Montgomery, most notably PEACOCK BLUES about a tattoo artist starting a new life just out of prison who teams up with a female numbers runner for Showtime which won Audience Favorite and First Prize at Moondance International Festival. Her production companies NOBLE HOUSE ENTERTAINMENT, INC and DEVORON PICTURES, LLC are committed to enlightening entertainment, and currently, along with producing partner Rhonda Lipnicki, she is focusing on inspiring media for teen and family audiences. Through her consulting arm The Script Broker ®, she works to inspire, strategize and position writers – helping writers get their projects ready for and out into the marketplace. Cutler-Rubenstein travels around the world, lecturing, speaking and teaching at film festivals and film markets about the creative and business aspects of moviemaking, and is an Adjunct Professor teaching screenwriting at USC. She packaged, helped finance, co-wrote (with Laura Scheiner) and is poised to direct the romantic comedy “e-Bride” to shoot on location in the Ukraine, and is currently co-writing an idie-heist rom-com feature. Her DVD THE INSIDERS GUIDE TO FILM FINANCING is distributed through Creative Screenwriting and her book WHAT’S THE BIG IDEA? WRITING SHORTS is used as a textbook at film schools and is available through the Writers’ Store or through her websites; www.getcoverageplus.com OR www.thescriptbroker.com. Most recently she co-wrote, produced and directed a humorous short, STRIKE DOODY for the WGAw 2008 writer’s stike, www.strikedoody.com. She loves writing and coaching all genres, but especially enjoys material focusing on issues of the heart and the challenge of staying true to ones’ self (“hearing your soul’s beat”) while staying connected to others. She can be contacted for more information at (323) 655-2225 or devo@thescriptbroker.com or write to her at 8350 Melrose Ave., Suite 201, LA, CA 90069 |
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Heather Hale is a Writer/Director/Producer with over 45 hours of credits under her belt which include a Lifetime Original Movie, two Emmys, Tellys and ACE awards. She has performed her stand-up comedy on the Main Stage at the Comedy Store in Hollywood, was the Director of Event Programming for the National Association of Television Program Executives’ NATPE ’05 and helped design the new revolutionary new literary development software, LitCentral. Heather is a jury judge for RKO Pictures’ Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Prize, a |
| reader for the ABC/Disney Fellowship, and has judged many other screenwriting competitions (The American Screenwriters Association, The Scriptwriters’ Network, Writers’ Digest, the IFP, among many others). Heather is a STAR Speaker at the Screenwriters Expo and has spoken at many film festivals and organizations including: The Austin Film Festival, the Vail Film Festival, the Vancouver Film and Television Expo, the Willamette Writers Conference, Slamdance, Moondance, Selling to Hollywood, The Great American Pitch Fest, the Film Industry Network, The LA Film and Recording Schools, the Learning Annex, Learning Tree University, TheIndustry.LA – as well as colleges and universities around the world. She has two DVDs: Navigating Hollywood and NonLinear StoryTelling (in post-production) and a book Nirvana in a Cup. www.HeatherHale.com |
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MICHAEL HAUGE is a story consultant, author and lecturer who works with writers and filmmakers on their screenplays, novels, movies and television projects. He has coached writers, producers, stars and directors on projects for Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez, Kirsten Dunst, Charlize Theron and |
| Morgan Freeman, as well as for every major studio and network. Michael's book Writing Screenplays That Sell, now in its 32nd printing for HarperCollins, is a definitive reference book for the film and television industries, and his seminar with Chris Vogler, The Hero's 2 Journeys, is now available on DVD and CD. His new book, Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds: The Guaranteed Way to Get Your Screenplay or Novel Read , has just been published by Michael Wiese Productions. Michael has presented seminars and lectures to more than 40,000 participants throughout the US , Canada and Europe . He is on the Board of Directors of the American Screenwriters Association and the Advisory Board for Scriptwriter Magazine in London. |
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Karl Iglesias is a screenwriter and sought-after script doctor and consultant, specializing in the reader’s emotional response to the written page. He is the best-selling author of Writing For Emotional Impact: Advanced dramatic techniques to attract, engage, and fascinate the reader from beginning to end and The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters. He teaches at the prestigious UCLA Extension’s Writer’s Program, online at Writers University, and has presented highly acclaimed |
| workshops at the Screenwriting Expo, The Great American Pitchfest, Sherwood Oaks College, and various conferences around the world. Karl is also a regular columnist on the craft for Creative Screenwriting Magazine. He can be reached through his website at www.karliglesias.com. |
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William C. Martell has written 19 produced films carelessly slapped onto celluloid, plus been on several film festival juries, including Raindance in London, twice - once with Mike Figgis and Saffron Burrows, once with Lennie James and Edgar Wright... and he returns to jury duty in October 2008. Roger Ebert discussed his work with Gene Siskel on his 1997 "If We Picked The Winners" Oscar show. His USA Net flick HARD EVIDENCE was released on video the same day as the Julia Roberts' film Something To Talk About and out-rented it in the USA. He’s |
| the West Coast Editor of Script Magazine - where he’s had a column since 1991. Last year he had 2 films released on Feb 20th, 2007, one from Lion's Gate, one from Sony- both landed on the Top Ten DVD chart (originals). www.ScriptSecrets.net |
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In his 20-year career as a screenwriter and producer, Blake Snyder has sold dozens of scripts, including co-writing Blank Check, which became a hit for Disney, and Nuclear Family for Steven Spielberg -- both million-dollar sales. Named "one of Hollywood's most successful spec screenwriters," Blake continues to write and sell screenplays, most recently a 2006 sale of a horror-comedy. His book, Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need was published in May 2005, and is now in its twelfth printing, having sold over 30,000 |
| copies. It has prompted "standing room only" appearances by Blake in New York, London, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Vancouver, Toronto, and Barcelona – along with numerous sold-out workshops in Los Angeles, where he was also a STAR Speaker at Screenwriting Expos 5 and 6. Apparently it is not quite the last book on screenwriting you’ll ever need, as the eagerly awaited sequel, Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told was published in October 2007 – shooting to #1 in the Screenwriting, Screenplay, and Movies History and Criticism categories on Amazon.com. Blake's method has become the "secret weapon" of many development executives, managers, and producers for its precise, easy, and honest appraisal of what it takes to write and develop stories that resonate. |
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Chris Soth is a produced screenwriter and WGA member. He teaches the methods that brought his success through his website MillionDollarScreenwriting.com, and hosts weekly networking conference calls for aspiring writers to network with working Hollywood through HollywoodByPhone.com |
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James Hughes has been a professional screenwriter and director for over ten years. His short films have gained considerable praise across the world. The latest of which, The Velvet Abstract, features talent from Spiderman 2, Alias, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Hostel 2, Air Force One, and Lost. His produced TV, Theatre, and Film work, has enabled him to be a full member of both the Writers Guild and Directors Guild for many years. He is also a Speaker at the Creative Screenwriting Expo - running the popular class Short Films: A Short Way To Success.
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