Nominated for 6 Oscars (including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay), with another 34 wins and 51 nominations total, Jason Reitman’s UP IN THE AIR is a good sign that a good story can still reign in Hollywood.  17 of these nominations were for Best Adapted Screenplay, see the film’s IMDB Awards page for details.  If you, like me, have a story to tell that feels small when viewed side by side with the IRONMANs and TRANSFORMERS, this is very good news.  Then again, even if you have a ‘big’ stylized film that you want to make, you still need a good story (see AVATAR, also nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture this year, and for a WGA Award for Best Screenplay by the Writer’s Guild of America).

UP IN THE AIR Producer Dan Dubiecki will be on-hand at TheFilmSchool Substance and Sale seminar (February 26-28) to join seminar leaders Warren Etheredge and John Jacobsen in discussing how to improve a script to get it to a level judged professional by professionals, and how to develop the business skills to market the material, whatever that material may be.

Joining Dan Dubiecki are guest speakers Pilar Alessandra (of the LA Writing Program On the Page) and Liz Glotzer, President of Castle Rock Entertainment (MICHAEL CLAYTON, THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, BEST IN SHOW).

For more details on the course and how to register, click here.

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