Link below to an excellent interview highly recommended by TheFilmSchool faculty member John Jacobsen. 

Scriptapalooza president Mark Andrushko asks Robert Mckee the usual questions and gets the tough answers.  Learn about the importance of the process of rewriting, tips on adapting a book into a screenplay, and the biggest mistake first-time screenwriters always make.  From the mouth of the Screenwriting Guru himself. 

http://www.moviebytes.com/ContestNews.cfm?ContestNumber=123&ID=1876

TheFilmSchool is proud to present Exploring FrameForge 3D, a free hands-on workshop featuring the premiere of FrameForge Pre-viz Studio 3 at the 35th Seattle International Film Festival’s Digital Media Lab in the Alki Room at the Seattle Center on Saturday, May 30, 12:00pm.  
 
FrameForge Pre-viz Studio 3 is the program that’s redefining storyboarding and previsualization. Ken Schafer, lead developer and creator of FrameForge 3D, will demo how every filmmaker can benefit from taking a script to an easy and affordable optically accurate previsualization. FrameForge, a 3D pre-visualization platform with an incredibly intuitive interface and phenomenal flexibility, allows the user to create a three-dimensional scale location complete with actors, props, wardrobe, set dressing, basic lighting and backgrounds. You can then move through that world with virtual cameras to generate specific storyboards.
 
FrameForge Pre-viz Studio 3 works with both Screenwriter & Final Draft scriptwriting programs to explore and discover shot possibilities BEFORE you go on location. The new version three adds additional functions that include sun tracking, lighting placement, and stereoscopic previsualization.
 
The workshop is free but ticketed reservations are available through the SIFF Box Office, www.siff.net <http://www.siff.net> . Seating is limited.

If you would like to learn faculty member Warren Etheredge’s secrets to success in interviewing celebrities, or view the documentary GOING THROUGH SPLAT: THE LIFE AND WORK OF STEWART STERN about legend and faculty member Stewart Stern, then check out the How to Write Like I Do page of the 826 Seattle website www.826seattle.org/writelikeido/ .  

Warren’s workshop ‘How to Grill a Star’ will focus on the craft of the interview–and anyone who has attended his fabulous Speaker Series as part of TheFilmSchool 3-Week Intensive, or for those who are members of The Warren Report (www.thewarrenreport.com), it is clear he has some tricks up his sleeve.  Stewart’s two-part workshop ‘How to Write Like I Used To’ (and for anyone who doesn’t know, Stewart wrote classics such as ‘A Rebel Without a Cause’, and ‘Sybil’) will feature the screening of the above-mentioned documentary, and an evening of timed writing sessions and guided meditation.  This workshop is a perfect supplement to Stewart’s The Personal Connection class with which TFS alumni are so familiar, or a great peek into what you can expect from that course for anyone interested in attending TheFilmSchool.  These workshops are an invaluable way to expand your writing toolbox and help support 826 Seattle at the same time. 

826 Seattle is a nonprofit writing and tutoring center dedicated to helping youth, ages six to 18, improve their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.

This Thursday, you might consider going to the Seattle Art Museum to see Stewart’s film RACHEL, RACHEL.  Now anytime one can see this film on the big screen it is a treat.  It is Paul Newman’s directorial debut, so that is an added bonus.  It stars Joanne Woodward – another treat as she is brilliant (she got a Best Actress nomination).  It also uses a different narrative approach and is an adaptation of a book and that’s worth studying, too. The film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Screenplay to boot.  But the real treat, of course, is to see Stewart, who will be there.  This screening is part of an eleven film series honoring the work of Paul Newman, who was not only, of course, a legendary and talented entertainer, but also a dear friend of Stewart’s.
Rachel, Rachel (Paul Newman, 1968), with Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons. In 35 mm, color, 101 min. With special screening guest Stewart Stern.

May 14, 2009
7:30–9:30 pm
Plestcheeff Auditorium

100 University Street
Seattle, WA 98101-2902

The following description comes from the Seattle Art Museum Film Site at http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/tah/films.asp
This series of eleven films honors the acting and directing career of Paul Newman (1925–2008), whose indelible portrayals of lovable rebels and rapscallions have ignited movie screens for half a century. Blessed with a face of classical beauty, smoldering blue eyes, physical grace and an iconic sense of cool, Newman epitomized an American masculinity that melded toughness with sensitivity.
In movies he was a serious actor who won audiences’ affection and critics’ raves, while off screen he was a prankster, a modest and private man, a selfless philanthropist, and a prize-winning race car driver (until 2006!) who enjoyed a 50-year marriage to the superb actress Joanne Woodward. The couple’s longtime friend, screenwriter Stewart Stern (Rebel Without a Cause, The Rack, Rachel, Rachel) will join us on April 2 and May 14 to speak about his dear amigos. When pondering Paul Newman’s career, the words of his character “Fast Eddie” Felson in The Hustler come to mind: “I just had to show them what the game can be when it’s great.”

One of the most valuable yet often unsung benefits of attending TheFilmSchool is becoming part of an incredible network of alumni.  Anyone willing to take the emotional journey of the 3-week-intensive must be dedicated to the creative endeavor of quality storytelling and filmmaking—imagine joining a group of over 200 students that have been so inspired!  The below event is an example of the support and pool of talent that TFS alums have to offer.  If you’re in Seattle on May 18, head to the Theater Off Jackson and check out this reading of “She Can’t Stay With Me”, written by Kevin Rexroat, directed by Lisa Halpern and produced by Heather Hughes and Kate Wharton of Three Hole Punch Productions – all are alumni of TheFilmSchool!

I’ll see you there!

Kevin Rexroat’s subversive, hilarious script “She Can’t Stay With Me” will be directed by Lisa Halpern,  starring the amazing Sarah Harlett, Basil Harris, Jose J. Gonzales, Annette Toutonghi, Eray Anderson, and more!

Not recommended for children - mature content.
 
Date: Monday, May 18, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Theater Off Jackson
     409 7th Ave South
     Seattle, WA 98104