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Panel Discussion: Location as Character: The Craft of Writing Place – WGA – October 1, 2019

Location as Character: The Craft of Writing Place
Tuesday, October 1, 2019
7:30 PM 9:00 PM
The Writers Guild Foundation, 7000 West 3rd StreetLos Angeles, CA, 90048United States

Whether big city or small-town USA, a show’s location can have a powerful impact. We are teaming up with Columbia College Chicago on this special evening to sit down with a panel of TV writers for a discussion about how writing location, whether real or fictional, sets the scene and can shape the motivations of the characters.

Panelists:

Ayanna Floyd – Writer, Executive Producer, The Chi
Anthony Sparks – Writer, Executive Producer, Queen Sugar
Stay tuned for more panelist announcements!

Moderated by Dr. Rosanne Welch.

Doors open at 7pm. Event starts at 7:30pm.

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Paolo Russo and Maria Guilhermina Castro, SRN Conference, Porto, Portugal via Instagram

Paolo Russo and Maria Guilhermina Castro, SRN Conference, Porto, Portugal

Opening Session of the 2019 Screenwriting Research Conference.

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Opening Reception, Screenwriting Research Network Conference, Porto, Portugal via Instagram

Opening Reception, Screenwriting Research Network Conference, Porto, Portugal

Chatting with Armando Fumagalli and others at this reception on the beach.

A great way to encounter these international friends I only see in person once a year at the 2019 Screenwriting Research Conference.

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Quotes from When Women Wrote Hollywood – 44 in a series – Time to be remembered

Do you know about these women screenwriters? Many don’t. Learn more about them today!

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Ida May Park began and ended her life and career in Los Angeles, California, credited as a writer of approximately five hundred scenarios and fifty features, having had a successful career as a director with fourteen films under her belt. Unfortunately, as a woman of early Hollywood, she falls into a category of women who were notable enough to have some of their work survive and be remembered, but not notable enough for many history books or archives to chronicle her career.

Ida May Park: Prolific Pioneer
by Jackie Perez

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Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting Alums REPRESENT at the Austin Film Festival 2019!

Congrats to our alums whose scripts have advanced at the 2019 AFF Script Competition including:

Adam Parker for THE BABY (Semifinalist) and THE EMERALD CITY (Second Round)
CJ Ehrlich for THE MALTESE BABKA (Second Round)
Cara Greene Epstein for THE FROZEN CHOSEN (Second Round)
Ilona Rossman Ho for INDIVISIBLE MOM (Second Round)
Jennifer Martin for THE GOLDBERGS: FEAR STREET (Second Round).

We are so proud!!

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Journal of Screenwriting Call For Submissions For A Special Issue Focusing On Female Screenwriters

Don’t forget: The Journal of Screenwriting is calling for articles for a special issue with a focus on female screenwriters, to be published in November 2020. I will be co-editing this Special Issue! — Rosanne

Call For Submissions

Special Issue: Female Screenwriters

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The Journal of Screenwriting is calling for articles for a special issue with a focus on female screenwriters, to be published in November 2020.

JOSC wants to emphasize the importance of female screenwriters across eras, genres, mediums. This importance may arise from an analysis of bodies of work, from individual scripts written by women or from case studies where female screenwriters have worked collaboratively to express screen stories. Articles may also include women’s work behind the scenes in advocating for/promoting greater gender equality within screenwriting milieux. Articles on female screenwriters from diverse cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

Articles may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

Female screenwriters in silent cinema
The influence of female writer(-directors) in contemporary culture
Case studies on an individual screenwriter’s work, collaborations between women or on how women-centred stories have been brought to the screen
Historiography of manuals and screenwriting pedagogy where this reflects the work of female screenwriters
National and global tendencies with regard to women within screenwriting – relations, influences, cultural transfers
Censorship and women’s stories and women’s writings
Biographies of female screenwriters of any era
Female screenwriters within writing partnerships
The work of female screenwriters within script production (e.g. as showrunners, script editors or consultants)
• The question of a female voice within screenwriting
In the first instance, please email abstracts of up to 400 words and a short biography, no later than Friday, 4 October 2019 to both of the editors of this special issue: Rosanne Welch: rosanne@welchwrite.com Rose Ferrell: rosieglow@westnet.com.au Completed articles of between 4000 and 8000 words should be sent by the end of January 2020.

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Screenwriting Research Network Conference 2019, Porto, Portugal, All Sessions

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Here’s a look at the program for the Screenwriting Research Network (SRN) conference that just concluded last Saturday in Porto, Portugal.

I deeply enjoyed making my presentation on Writers Rooms in the U.S. but even more I enjoyed the presentations I attended.

This program is chock a block full of new international films to learn about (did you know there’s a Portuguese film with the name “Django” in it that has nothing to do with the one by Tarantino?) and new ways to teach writing students how to take in all the (often negative) notes they receive and decide which constructive ones to use to make their scripts stronger?

Just skimming the schedule shows the breadth of new ideas that are running around in my head right now. — Rosanne

12th SCREENWRITING RESEARCH NETWORK CONFERENCE
Porto, September 11-14, 2019 · School of Arts, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

PROGRAMME

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Theme: Foundation and Crisis of Europe in Screenwriting

Chair: Paolo Russo

Pablo Echart
Savage continent, united continent: the writing of a feature film screenplay about the “founding fathers” of the European Union

María Noguera / Miguel Muñoz-Garnica
Narrative detours in the cinematic representation of Europe in crisis: Ulysses’ Gaze, A Talking Picture and Our Music

Daniel Sierra / Marta Frago
Young Winston and Darkest Hour’s films: Winston Churchill as British Hero in a Changing Europe

Theme: Modes I

Chair: Nelson Zagalo

Ruth Gutiérrez Delgado
Causality is not casual in a film despite it seems to be: A Perfect Day

Paolo Braga
The line between fate and chaos in Collateral

Armando Fumagalli
Order and chaos in the ending of a film

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Video games following path of films in their marketing and “Death Stranding” Game Trailer

What’s interesting about this video game trailer (is first of all that they have trailers for video games!) but that at the 5:36 mark they begin giving the credits for all the relatively big name actors in this – including Guillermo del Toro and (for me) Lindsay Wagner (the original Bionic Woman) which shows how this new-ish art form is following the path of films – which originally did not name their actors until they realized actors bring in audience.

Also, that the branding of the creator “Kojima Productions”. The parallels between these arts-turned-businesses are so interesting. — Rosanne

** Notes originally from discussion with Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting students

Category: Film

Panel Discussion: Location as Character: The Craft of Writing Place – WGA – October 1, 2019

Paolo Russo and Maria Guilhermina Castro, SRN Conference, Porto, Portugal via Instagram

Opening Reception, Screenwriting Research Network Conference, Porto, Portugal via Instagram

Quotes from When Women Wrote Hollywood – 44 in a series – Time to be remembered

Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting Alums REPRESENT at the Austin Film Festival 2019!

Journal of Screenwriting Call For Submissions For A Special Issue Focusing On Female Screenwriters

Ready to present my talk yesterday at the Screenwriting Research Conference here in Porto, Portugal via Instagram

Screenwriting Research Network Conference 2019, Porto, Portugal, All Sessions

Video games following path of films in their marketing and “Death Stranding” Game Trailer

On the beach in Foz, Porto, Portugal