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2019UMFF " Multicultural Screenplay" Panel
TOPICS:
Writing for the Chinese Film Market.
Paring down your prose to make for a quicker and better read.
The importance of reading screenplays.
How to write an effective query letter.
How to shine in an in-person pitch meeting.
Enticing talent to attach themselves to your project.
How to compose a pitch deck for your film.
Where to find screenwriting jobs and screenplays requests.
Writing for TV in today's industry |
Time: 11:00-12:30PM; April 6, 2019
Location: Fireside room @Fred Hesse Community Park Center,(29301 Hawthorne Blvd; Rancho Palos Verdes, Ca 90275; Admission by Panel Pass.
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The Panel Speakers:
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Lee Burkin, Screenwriter
Mr. Burkin committed screenwriter with a body of work in multiple genres forboth film and television. He graduated from the University of Colorado in Boulder with a B.A. in Psychology and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. His unique academic background coupled with my travels and work in both the U.S. as well as in Europe helps me to create diverse story concepts. He hasworked on five television shows in post-production. His filmography credits include Wicked Fit, One Man Army, Man Woman Wild, and Construction Intervention. |
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Qiwei Song, Writer, Screenwriter
Qiwei is a well-known screenwriters, prose writers, romantic poets, editors, media people. Published a collection of essays "Wandering Clouds" "Spring of Manduhai", novel: "Ten Li Tenderness", poetry collection "Romantic Night", "Only Lanzhou". She has edited "Remembrance of Comrade Yun Bulong", "Anthology of Yun Bulong Painting", "Pulse", "The Numbers of People Are Still Seeing the Present", "Mengxi Incident", and "Citizen's Moral Theory". The screenplay "The Legend of Manduhai", "The Gunshots of Bailing Temple", "Looking for Mandelin", "Hunter and Black Bear"; The Continuous Playbook "The Southern Tang Dynasty Lord Li Wei" |
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Travis Flores, author, screenwriter
Travis Flores is an award-winning children's book author, theatre graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, and nationally recognized speaker & advocate for multiple charities. He is also a graduate of New York University, where he obtained a Masters of Science degree in fundraising & grant-making. Travis is a Cystic Fibrosis survivor and two time double-lung transplant recipient (March 2015/October2017). He currently resides in Los Angeles, California and continues his artistic career, along side his philanthropic work. |
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Micky Levy, Screenwriter, Producer, Director
Award-winning screenwriter, accomplished director and producer, Levy is a perpetual student of the human condition. She navigates gender, race, sex, and ethnicity via pen and via lens to allow audiences into hidden, foreign, and often marginalized places of society, and does so in an entertaining way. Her screenwriting credits include Warner Bros.’ RAILS & TIES, directed by Alison Eastwood, starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden, that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival; and Lifetime’s AMISH GRACE, for which Levy received a Humanitas Prize nomination. NOBODY, Levy’s screenplay adaptation of Caryl Phillips’ novel, Dancing in the Dark, placed in the Top Ten of the Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition. Levy’s directorial work includes the documentary short, FIRST TIME, and the narrative short, PAGE’S GREAT AND GRAND ESCAPE that played at over thirty film festivals. Recently, PAGE has been included in the award-winning film anthology, HER MIND IN PIECES. In 2018, Levy directed UNION, a thriller starring Sean Patrick Thomas she adapted from a story by Steven Heighton. The film won Best Women Short at Indie Short Fest. Currently, Levy is working on several projects, including EXPERIMENT 77, a thriller written by Kim Knopf which Levy is preparing to direct |
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Weihua Gao, Writer, Art collector, Poet, Film Investor
Weihua Go is a famous writer, poet, and collector. He holds the titles as “world-renowned Chinese”, “Western Star” and “Annual Figures”.
He published two sets of poems and a collection of novels, his works were awarded eleven times. He started art collection began in the 1960s and is now a well know art collector. The film "Mountain Streaming" is a documentary film based on Mr. Gao's personal story. This film will screening in the 2019 Universe Multicultural Film Festival |
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Brian Connors, director, screenwriter, producer
Brian has had a long career as an actor which eventually evolved into writing, directing and producing. Brian appears opposite KEVIN COSTNER in the Disney film MCFARLAND USA. He's been featured on LAW & ORDER, LAW & ORDER SVU, THE RICHES, THE HANDLER and CLOSE TO HOME working in scenes with Eddie Izzard, Minnie Driver, Sam Waterson, Mariska Hargitay, Chris Noth and Jerry Orbach among others.
Brian Connors recently wrote and directed the feature film SENIOR ENTOURAGE starring ED ASNER, HELEN REDDY, CHARLIE ROBINSON, MARION ROSS & MARK RYDELL. SENIOR ENTOURAGE is also being "pitched" as a TV series. |
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