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Speakers and Subjects Sought By Registrants
At The 2011 Screenwriting Expo
Interested in presenting at the Screenwriting Expo? Prior
Screenwriting Expo registrants and potential registrants have expressed
strong desire for certain topics, and less interest in others, in the Expo program.
Here's a table summarizing their wishes:
| How Expo Survey Respondents Ranked Potential Session Subjects |
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Medium/Maybe/Some Interest |
Low Priority/ Don't Want |
| Major motion picture writer Guests of Honor |
Adapting graphic novels |
Teachers using classes to sell |
| Working writers discussing craft |
Craft: writing for TV (?!) |
Same sessions as prior years
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| Marketing: finding an agent |
New Media |
Beginner Classes |
| Marketing: how to pitch |
Legal: securing rights |
Many more teachers than writers |
| Producers: what they want, how to break in |
Screenwriting software classes |
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| Working writers telling how they broke in |
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| Major TV show writer Guests of Honor |
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| Marketing: how to navigate Hollywood |
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| Screenwriting teachers on craft |
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| Craft: openings |
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| Craft: endings |
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| Craft: scene-writing |
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| Craft: dialogue |
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| Craft:creating characters |
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| Legal: dealing with a buyer |
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| Legal: protecting your work |
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We Will Have Room, Until Shortly Before The Program Starts, For:
– sessions taught by, interviews with, or panels of recently-produced screenwriters and prominent screenwriters;
– sessions taught by, interviews with, or panels of currenty working screenwriting agents;
– sessions taught by, interviews with, or panels of currently working movie producers and development executives;
– panels with currently working movie and TV writers, showrunners, producers, and development executives.
– studio executives, of course.
We are eager to receive any session proposals from you, but especially
on the topics listed as highest priorities above. A committee will select courses from
proposals submitted via the web address below.
To Submit Course Proposals: http://screenwritingexpo.com/call.for.presentations.html
We have created a fast, easy online procedure for sending proposals for
new sessions. Please use (or have your assistant use) only this
approach to submit or suggest proposed sessions. Please do
not email proposals or ideas to staff. Proposed courses will be
evaluated by a committee, which will consider only the sessions
submitted through the online system.
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