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"I have never come across anyone as
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most excellent and talented of all."
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—Anon. Writer (London STORY Seminar, Spring
2019)
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How to Avoid the Curse of Melodrama
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To avoid the accusation "This
script is melodramatic," many writers avoid writing big
scenes, or passionate powerful events. Instead they write minimalist
sketches in which little if anything happens, thinking they're subtle. This
is folly.
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Melodrama is not the result of overexpression, but of
undermotivation. Not writing too big, but writing with too little desire.
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The power of an event can only be as great
as the sum total of its causes.
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We feel a scene is melodramatic if we cannot believe that
motivation matches action. Writers from Homer to Shakespeare to Bergman
have created explosive scenes no one would label melodramatic, because they
knew how to motivate characters.
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If you can imagine high drama, or comedy, write it. But lift
the forces that drive your characters, and we'll embrace you for taking us
to the end of the line.
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Learn how to take your writing to the end of
the line at a McKee Seminar this Fall.
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STORY Oct. 24-26
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HORROR
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ACTION
Nov. 8
LOVE STORY
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COMEDY
Nov. 10
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STORY Nov. 21-23
LOVE STORY
Nov. 24
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How Do You Make Character Motivation
Credible?
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Robert McKee discusses character in relation to story
structure, and explains how to make motivations organic.
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A Message from Female Voices Rock
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Female Voices Rock Film Festival is a short film festival
that aims to celebrate women in the industry. Our goal is to put a
spotlight on those filmmakers who are still underrepresented and give them
the recognition they so rightly deserve.
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The festival will take place in the beautiful and historic
Cinema Village East in Manhattan on the 24th of October. We have an
industry panel of judges, and we celebrate films that empower female
producers, directors, writers and/or protagonists. We encourage you to join
us for a night of female-driven storytelling.
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Submissions are open until September 15th.
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We're adding 14 new videos focused
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Expand your knowledge of the TV
industry and propel your screenwriting and filmmaking career.
Join us for this incredible event – all from the
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connection – and the curiosity to learn from some of Hollywood’s
leading producers, executives, managers and award-winning
screenwriters! And best of all, it’s available to you for free on the weekend
of August 3-4, 2019.
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Here's a sneak peek of what's to
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Ali LeRoi:
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ARE WE THERE YET? SURVIVOR’S REMORSE, EVERYBODY HATES
CHRIS
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Yasemin
Yilmaz: Writer
THE PROTECTOR, THE EXORCIST, LALO'S HOUSE
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Jason
Katims: Executive Producer, Showrunner
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, PARENTHOOD, RISE
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Adam
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Lit Entertainment Group
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Julie Plec:
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CW’s LEGACIES, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, THE ORIGINALS,
CW’s ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO
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Karin Gist:
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MIXED-ISH, STAR, SISTER ACT 2, GREY’S ANATOMY,
REVENGE, HOUSE OF LIES, GIRLFRIENDS
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Susan
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SOUTH PARK, THE TICK, PREACHER
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Emma Frost
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THE SPANISH PRINCESS on Starz
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BENEFITING OUR NONPROFIT PARTNERS
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Don't miss out on our free
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Accepting Feature, TV and Short
Screenplays
The Script Lab and Coverfly are offering this FREE
screenplay competition to help open talent-discovery to anyone and
everyone, regardless of financial ability. This contest is open to
feature, TV and short screenplays. Scripts must be in English and
formatted with industry-standard screenwriting software.
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HORROR
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Nov. 8
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Nov. 10
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STORY Nov. 21-23
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Why Action Writing is a Matter of Life and
Death
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A story isn't just moments of conflict, personality or
activity. Writers must create scenes and sequences that contain all of the
above and more, thereby creating meaningful change in the life of a
character, expressed in terms of values such as justice/injustice,
love/hate or war/peace.
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When writing action, it's imperative to remember this key
principle: spectacle
isn't meaning.
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The key to action is life and death.
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In action stories, protagonists struggle to restore the
balance of life in the world by eliminating the forces of antagonism,
whether they are a group of European terrorists stealing money from a high
rise building, or a volcano eruption threatening the lives of the populace.
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No matter what form your villain takes, the primary value at
stake in all action stories is life.
To express that, protagonists must find themselves in increasingly perilous
situations. Then, with great skill, courage and intelligence, they must
overcome the forces of antagonism.
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Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a
more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. When they are
emotionally meaningful to us, we can trust it'll be meaningful to the
audience.
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In action, spectacle is simply the
expression of all that.
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Learn to Make Your Action Meaningful at
McKee's Genre Festival in NYC this Fall.
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How Do You Take the Value of Life/Death
to the End of the
Line?
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Robert McKee teaches the points a story must reach when the
key value at stake is life and death.
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The Big Break Screenwriting Contest is celebrating 20 years
of launching careers! The Last Chance deadline is TODAY, don't miss out
on a chance for your Big Break!
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Fall 2019 McKee
Seminar Schedule
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LOS ANGELES
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NEW YORK
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LONDON
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STORY Oct. 24-26
TV DAY
Oct. 27
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STORYNOMICS Nov. 6
HORROR
Nov. 7
ACTION
Nov. 8
LOVE STORY
Nov. 9
COMEDY
Nov. 10
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STORY Nov. 21-23
LOVE STORY
Nov. 24
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Professional, Student and Repeater
discounts available.
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Why Great Writers Destroy Their Work
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Optimistically, from first idea to final draft, a story
takes six months to write. The first four of these should be spent on your
step outline. As the term implies, a step outline is the story told in
steps.
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Using one or two-sentence statements, you must simply and
clearly describe what happens in each scene, how it builds and turns. For
example, "He
enters expecting to find her at home, but discovers her note saying she's
left for good."
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Next to each statement, indicate what step in the design of
story you see the scene fulfilling. Which scene is the Inciting Incident?
The Climax? Does it turn the main plot, subplot or both?
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Confine yourself to these statements for this critical
reason: you want to
destroy your work. Taste and experience tell us that 90
percent of everything we write will be mediocre at best.
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In your search for quality, you must
create far more material than you can use, then destroy it.
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A writer secure in their talent knows there's no limit to
what they can create. So you must trash everything less than your best on
your quest for a gem-quality story.
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Learn what it takes to create stories of
surpassing quality at a McKee Seminar this Fall.
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Join us in LA, NYC or London!
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"The
STORY seminar impacted my view about myself as a screenwriter. On my way
out of the seminar my last thought was: 'This is my
clan.' And I'm so happy about it!"
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Niki Lambropoulos
Screenwriter
(London Alum Spring 2019)
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Do Step Outlines Force Writers
to Make Decisions
for Characters?
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Robert McKee dispels the romantic notion of characters
thinking for themselves and highlights the importance of the writer being
in control of their creativity.
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Order STORY,
DIALOGUE
and STORYNOMICS
as a bundle through the McKee store using the promo code summer2019 and
receive $15 OFF. This offer ends August 31st, 2019.
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A Message from Our Friends at Write/LA
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"Five stars all around. This contest is valuable at
every tier. The script feedback is insightful and clearly communicated. If
you end up in the grand prize pool, the workshops and meetings are great
experiences to make new connections and sharpen your mental storytelling
tools."
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Jenna Wycoff
2018 Winner
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Write/LA
awards three writers of either feature or television projects the opportunity
to come to Los Angeles to take part in a private screenwriting lab,
experience the industry, and have their work celebrated at an exclusive
live read event.
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Our regular deadline is June 25! Check out a video of last year's Grand Prize experience at write-la.com.
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Our Seminar
Line-Up for Fall 2019
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LOS ANGELES
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NEW YORK
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LONDON
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STORY Oct. 24-26
TV DAY
Oct. 27
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STORYNOMICS Nov. 6
HORROR
Nov. 7
ACTION
Nov. 8
LOVE STORY
Nov. 9
COMEDY
Nov. 10
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STORY Nov. 21-23
LOVE STORY
Nov. 24
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Professional, Student and Repeater
discounts available.
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The Importance of Endings
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Put simply, a story is one huge master event. When you look
at the character's life at the beginning of your story compared to the end,
you should see your story
arc.
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The arc of your story is the great sweep
of change.
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The event takes your character from one value charge at the
beginning, be it love/hate, justice/injustice, maturity/immaturity etc, to
a changed
value at the end. Perhaps a character believes their life to be significant
and rich with meaning,
only to realize it's banal and meaningless.
Or maybe a protagonist discovers an injustice,
but is able to eventually bring about justice. However you choose to end
your story, remember this principle:
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This final condition of your ending
must be absolute and irreversible.
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Change caused by a scene, sequence or act can be nullified
or reversed. Lovers break up all the time, but differences can be
reconciled. A businesswoman could win a job, but jobs can be lost. A
character could die, but characters frequently come back to life. At story climax, you must
deliver a scene beyond which the audience can imagine no other.
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Learn to deliver an ending that will live on
in the audience's mind at a McKee seminar this fall.
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Misunderstood Endings In Minimalist Films
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Robert McKee explains the subtle brilliance of NO COUNTRY
FOR OLD MEN and UP IN THE AIR, and why their often misinterpreted endings
work so well.
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"Robert
McKee is truly a master. The STORY Seminar is one of the most rewarding and
informative weekends of my life."
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Robert Robertson
Animation Filmmaker
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A Message From Our Friends at LA
Screenwriter
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Write/LA is dedicated to helping writers improve their
craft so that they can find success in the ultra-competitive world of
screenwriting.
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To that end, we award three writers of either feature or
television projects the opportunity to come to Los Angeles to take part in
a private screenwriting lab, experience the industry, and have their work
celebrated at an exclusive live read event.
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Check out our video of last year's Grand Prize experience at
write-la.com.
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London STORY Seminar
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London TV DAY Seminar
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(Works involving STORY alumni nominated for a BAFTA)
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Congratulations to the 27 McKee Alumni
nominated across 7
BAFTA film categories, including 4 winners!
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Outstanding
British Film of the Year
&
Best Original Screenplay
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THE FAVOURITE
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Deborah Davis — Writer
/ Executive Producer
James Smith
— "Godolphin"
Ed Guiney
— Producer
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FREE SOLO
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Bob Eisenhardt — Film
Editor
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Join this growing collective of industry
masters.
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Robert McKee's
seminar alumni are consistently recognized as some of the best writers,
directors, editors and producers in the business. Don't miss your chance to
join this exceptionally talented group of creatives.
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"When writing COISA MAIS LINDA for
Netflix,
I used every inch of
McKee's teaching on it."
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3 Tips for Writing Dialogue
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1. THE SAID:
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The said are those
ideas and emotions a character chooses to to express to others. Moreover,
characters in specific situations speak lines with specific purpose,
highlighting their intelligence, or lack of it, and imagination, or lack of
it.
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2. THE UNSAID:
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As thoughts and
feelings form at this level, the self deliberately withholds them. Once a
character speaks, readers and audiences instinctively look past the words to
intuit what they actually think and feel, to whit, the subtext.
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3. THE UNSAYABLE:
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Language cannot
express who a character actually is, only who she seems to be. The unsayable are
those subconscious urges and desires a character cannot express in words,
even to herself, because they are mute and beyond awareness.
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Without expressive
dialogue, story events lack depth, characters lose dimension, and story
flattens. More than any other technique of characterization (gender, age,
dress, class), dialogue has the power to lift a merely complicated telling
into the full array of complexity.
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Learn to write powerful, expressive dialogue
and more at McKee's London STORY Seminar in May.
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LONDON
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Regents University London
Inner Circle, Regent's
Park, London, England NW1 4NS
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STORY Seminar May 23-25
TV DAY Seminar
May 26
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Writing Dialogue Before You Have A Story
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Robert McKee teaches
the dangers of attempting to write a script before your story is ready.
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Our Current Fall
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LOS ANGELES
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STORY Oct. 24-26
TV DAY
Oct. 27
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STORYNOMICS Nov. 6
HORROR
Nov. 7
ACTION
Nov. 8
LOVE STORY
Nov. 9
COMEDY
Nov. 10
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Learn the Art of Long-Form Storytelling
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LONDON MAY 26
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Learn the Art of Long-Form Storytelling
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LONDON MAY 26
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"Robert McKee's STORY Seminar is a
beautiful insight in telling a meaningful story and the complexity of life
in general. It left me forever
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GAME OF THRONES // BLACK BOOK // VALKYRIE
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Don't Miss Robert McKee's London TV DAY!
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Storytelling on
television in the 21st Century has entered a new era - its Golden Age.
Long-form television, through stories unfurling over 70+ hours, is now
revealing depths of character and humanity the likes of which we have never
seen.
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Robert McKee's
all-new TV Day teaches the tools and principles to master television's unique
storytelling challenges.
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Now
Featuring:
- A
brand new
half-hour video lesson from Margaret Nagle (BOARDWALK EMPIRE).
- Robert
McKee's in-depth teaching of the princples
of long-form story and character design.
- Analysis
of cast polarization and dimensions, character arcs and plotlines of
BREAKING BAD.
- A
sequence-by-sequence screening
and breakdown of BREAKING BAD's Season 4 finale.
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In the dynamic landscape of long-form storytelling,
enlightened writers know their writing must evolve.
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Join us at McKee's London TV Day in May.
Discover how to
write to the limits of the screen.
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LONDON
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Inner Circle, Regent's
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STORY Seminar May 23-25
TV DAY Seminar
May 26
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The Politics of Myth in Martin's Modern
Classic
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If we were to
unearth the politics buried inside every tale ever told, we could divide all
stories into two grand schools of partisan thought: Tradition-bound, old
rules, right-wing beliefs versus reform-minded, new rules, left-wing
principles. In other words, myth versus fiction.
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GAME OF THRONES
merges these political extremes into one ingeniously massive yarn...
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Only 3 weeks to go until McKee's London
Seminars!
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"Robert McKee is the genuine article.
His STORY is a testimony of craft, compassion and depth."
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Brian Cox
Emmy Award Winner
ADAPTATION // ZODIAC // RED // THE BOURNE IDENTITY
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London
STORY Seminar
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London
TV DAY Seminar
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How Poetics Can Help Your Story
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Film is the perfect
medium for the poet's soul, once the screenwriter understands the nature of
story poetics.
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The first step in
turning a well-told story into a poetic work is to exclude 90 percent of
reality. The vast majority of objects in the world have the wrong
connotations for any specific story, so the spectrum of possible imagery must
be sharply narrowed.
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Instead, the writer empowers the story with
an Image System.
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An Image System is a
category of embedded imagery, and created in one of two ways. External Imagery
takes a category that outside the film already has a meaning, and carefully
applies it directly to the story. At the climax of ROCKY IV, Rocky wraps
himself in an American flag, a symbol of patriotism and love of country.
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Internal
Imagery, however, takes a
category that outside the story that may or may not have meaning, and then
gives it an entirely new meaning within the telling. The world of CASABLANCA
is a virtual penitentiary, with window blinds, room dividers and stair
railings serving as the "prison bars".
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Poetic doesn't mean
pretty, rather, it means enhanced
expressivity. Whether a story's content is beautiful or
grotesque, spiritual or profane, epic or intimate, it requires full expression.
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Master Story Poetics and More at McKee's
London STORY and TV DAY Seminars
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"It's an amazingly important course
that I've gone back to do three times."
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John Cleese
BAFTA and Emmy Award
Winner
FAWLTY TOWERS // MONTY PYTHON // A FISH CALLED WANDA
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LONDON
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Regents University London
Inner Circle, Regent's
Park, London, England NW1 4NS
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STORY Seminar May 23-25
TV DAY Seminar
May 26
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McKee's TV DAY seminar now
features an exclusive
half-hour interview with Margaret Nagle. Don't miss your
chance to get insider information about finding an agent, breaking into the
TV industry, pitching your scripts and surviving the writers' room.
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Our Current Fall
2019 Seminar Dates
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Stay tuned as we'll
be adding more dates soon...
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LOS ANGELES
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NEW YORK
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STORY Oct. 24-26
TV DAY
Oct. 27
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STORYNOMICS Nov. 6
HORROR
Nov. 7
ACTION
Nov. 8
LOVE STORY
Nov. 9
COMEDY
Nov. 10
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Professional, Student and Repeater discounts
available.
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Can an Image System Be Too Heavy-Handed?
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Robert McKee teaches
the relationship between image systems and empathy.
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"The usual key to getting films made seems to be a
producer's terrier-like determination not to let it go."
- Whit Stillman
(Oscar Nominated Writer / Director)
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Our
partners at Inktip have a network of producers determined to find good
stories. As always, your goal as a writer should be a good story, well
told.
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Whatever your level, InkTip can help.
Producers option an average of four or
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Only 4 weeks until McKee's London STORY
Seminar.
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"It's an amazingly important course
that I've gone back to do three times."
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John Cleese
BAFTA and Emmy
Award-Winner
FAWLTY TOWERS // MONTY PYTHON // A FISH CALLED WANDA
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London
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MAY 23 - 25
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London
TV DAY Seminar
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MAY 26
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How to Write TV Pilot Exposition
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The ideal handling
of exposition
is when the facts of history, society, and characterization of your story
world pass invisibly into the awareness of the audience. They gather what
they need and want to know while following the action uninterrupted by a
barrage of information.
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But understanding the principle of
exposition is one thing, executing it is another entirely.
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Once your pilot is
written, with your climax
in hand, ask yourself: "How
much does the audience actually need to know for this ending to work?"
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Your audience only
needs enough information to make sense of your climax. In order to pay off
your first episode, and hook the audience to watch the next, you may realize
that they don't need to know everything you've told them so far.
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Therefore everything in the script should be
justified in the light of the ending. If it doesn't serve your climax, cut
it.
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Master exposition and other television writing
principles at McKee's TV Day in London.
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"Robert McKee is a master of the craft
and a servant to the art of screenwriting."
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Russell Brand
Actor, Author and
Comedian
GET HIM TO THE GREEK
// FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL
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LONDON
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Regents University London
Inner Circle, Regent's
Park, London, England NW1 4NS
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STORY Seminar May 23-25
TV DAY Seminar
May 26
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McKee's TV DAY seminar now
features an exclusive
half-hour interview with Margaret Nagle. Don't miss your
chance to get insider information about finding an agent, breaking into the
TV industry, pitching your scripts and surviving the writers' room.
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Announcing Our Fall
2019 Seminar Dates!
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More dates to
follow...
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LOS ANGELES
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NEW YORK
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STORY Oct. 24-26
TV DAY
Oct. 27
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STORYNOMICS Nov. 6
HORROR
Nov. 7
ACTION
Nov. 8
LOVE STORY
Nov. 9
COMEDY
Nov. 10
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Professional, Student and Repeater discounts
available.
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How Would a Controlling Idea Work for a TV
Series?
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Robert McKee teaches
how to use the principle of the Controlling Idea in relation to the values at
stake in a television series.
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New Webinar Announced!
Breaking Down
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Monday April 22 @ 1pm PDT - Register Here for FREE
As you know, for a screenwriter, the best education comes from reading
great screenplays. We're going to take it one step further. Our Stage
32 Director of Script Services, Jason Mirch, who has spent over 10 years as an executive and
producer, is going to break down the Oscar Winning
Screenplay GREEN BOOK and show why it works so well.
Everyone signing up for this free webinar will receive the screenplay
for GREEN BOOK ahead of time to read and review.
Then, Jason will take you step by step as he examines the setups, beats
and character arcs that make the script sing.
What You'll Learn:
- The introduction and
setup of the main and secondary characters
- The designed structure
of the screenplay and why it works perfectly
- The 3 types of plants
and payoffs that are in the script
- The precision of the 3
act structure within the screenplay
- Why Green Book may
be based on a true story, but the structure can be applied to any
fiction screenplay
As a bonus, Jason will fill you in on what type of
material the market is looking for and what resources you can use right
now to enhance your own writing.
And finally, whether you watch
the webinar live or On Demand, Jason will be giving ALL attendees a
FREE gift valued at $50!
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Can't make it
live? Don't worry! We'll record it and you can watch it for up to 1
year!
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LONDON
STORY MAY 23-25
TV DAY MAY 26
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Learn to write for the page, stage, or screen
at McKee's London Seminars this May
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"Bob McKee has been a great influence
not only on my own work,
but on my attitude towards it."
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Lowell Cauffiel
New York Times
Best-selling Author
MASQUERADE // EYE OF THE BEHOLDER // HOUSE OF SECRETS
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"Good stories need compelling characters
and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium
you're writing for."
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D.J. MacHale
Writer
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What Kind of Storyteller Are You?
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A masterful story
dramatizes inner, personal and
extra personal conflict. A fine writer can turn a story on all three levels,
regardless of medium.
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In story, all things are possible.
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Film
is a visual medium, perfect for the
dramatization of the extra-personal
conflicts (society and the physical environment) of human
beings. However, unless you indulge in voice-over narration, you have no
access to the minds of characters. You must imply the inner life.
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The power and beauty of the novel
is the writer's ability to dramatize inner conflict. Whether in third or
first person, a storyteller you can describe the thoughts and feelings even
down to the unconscious mind.
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A well-written play
stands in between. Personal
conflicts are carried out through dialogue, the essence of the theatre.
Artists interested in dramatizing family life or lovers write for the stage.
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As a writer, you must make a choice.
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Whether you want to
write for the page or the screen, what should guide you is the interest you
have in social or environmental conflict versus inner or personal conflict.
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What is your real interest as a storyteller?
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Don't miss McKee's London STORY Seminar!
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LONDON
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Regents University London
Inner Circle, Regent's
Park, London, England NW1 4NS
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STORY Seminar May 23-25
TV DAY Seminar
May 26
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Professional, Student and Repeater discounts available.
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How Does Inner Conflict Relate
to the Forces of
Antagonism?
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Robert McKee teaches
how writers should deal with inner conflict when writing for the theater,
novels or film.
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A Message From Our Friends at InkTip
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Producers have made more than 375 movies
from scripts and writers found on InkTip.
Register Now.
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Every week producers
option or buy an average of 5 more scripts from InkTip writers. Find scripts
in every genre and every budget fast.
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Paradigm, Paramount Pictures, Hallmark Channel, FX, Universal, WME, Echo
Lake, Zero Gravity, Bad Robot, 20th Century Fox, and many, many more.
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McKee Seminars | Two Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2
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"Stories live inside us all. Too often, talented writers
remain unnurtured and lost."
- Robert McKee
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The McKee Seminars
team is excited to partner with We Screenplay, who are championing diverse
and underrepresented voices.
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What the world needs
is story. Now and forever.
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The
McKee Team
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FINAL
DEADLINE ON APRIL 15
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Diverse
Voices is a screenplay contest and lab that strives to encourage
stories that are told from perspectives that are often
underrepresented in Hollywood today. This includes writers of
color, women writers, writers with disabilities, writers over 40,
writers in the LGBTQ+ community, and any other voices that have
historically been ignored by Hollywood.
This
season, the Diverse Voices competition is expanding to an
in-person Screenwriting Lab experience in Los Angeles with the
first ever Diverse Voices Lab. Four winners will be flown out to
LA for mentorship and meetings with industry professionals.
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Founded
by Ava DuVernay, Array is an independent film distribution and
resource collective comprised of artist advocacy organizations,
maverick volunteers, and rebel member donors worldwide. Their work
is dedicated to the amplification of independent films by people of
color and women filmmakers globally.
Diverse Voices has raised over
$14,000 for charity since starting only 3 years ago. Thank you to
all the amazing writers who've helped us get there.
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Ben Cory Jones
Ben Cory Jones has written on various shows, including
Chasing
Life (ABC Family), Hand of God
(Amazon), Underground
(WGN), and Insecure
(HBO). He also created and wrote the drama series, Candy,
and is also the showrunner/co-creator of the upcoming BET series,
Boomerang
- based on the iconic film.
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Jesse Atlas
Jesse Atlas is a writer/director known for amazing
short-form content like Record/Play
and Let
Them Die Like Lovers. His works have been
official selections at festivals like Sundance, LA Film Festival,
Fantastic Fest, and Tribeca Film Festival. Most recently, Jesse
co-founded the Autonomika Story Lab to help emerging filmmakers
find their voice and vision.
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Kendrick Tanner
Kendrick works as a literary manager at Lit
Entertainment Group. Lit Entertainment Group manages the writers
of films such as Guardians
fo the Galaxy, Bridge of Spies,
and The
Jungle Book.
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Halle Mariner
Halle Mariner is a coordinator at Agency for the
Performing Arts (APA). A highly respected talent agency that reps
the big name actors, directors, and writers in everything from
movies like The
Evil Dead to TV shows like Game of Thrones.
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THE
DIVERSE VOICES EXPERIENCE
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Past winners have signed at Gotham
Group, Heroes and Villains, and Industry Entertainment. Check out
more successes here.
The Grand
Prize Winner and the First Place Winner in each category will be
flown to Los Angeles and put up in an iconic LA Hotel for a
Diverse Voices Four-Day Screenwriting Lab. The Lab will include
hands-on development with industry executives, WeScreenplay
staff, writers, and each other. It'll also include meetings with
executives and managers about the writers, their career, and
their projects in development.
Beyond that, the winners' work
will be strategically sent to producers, agents, and managers
with whom WeScreenplay has a relationship. All Finalists will be
publicly recognized through our website and e-mail lists.
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McKee Seminars | Two Arts, Inc.
PO Box 681
Sherman, Connecticut 06784
United States
(928) 204-2323
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