Date and Time:
September 21, 2005
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location:
The Dean's Conference Room
721 Broadway, 12th Floor
Conducted by Staton Rabin
How the heck do you break in as a screenwriter without connections or a time-share in L.A.? And what does it take to make the dreaded "Hollywood" reader give your script a "Recommend"? Tisch Film alumna Staton Rabin, a veteran story analyst and writer who has her own Hollywood success story, gives you the inside scoop on what script readers really look for in a screenplay, and "real world" tips for storming the Hollywood barricades so that you too can see your name in Variety.
Staton Rabin has been a freelance story analyst to the movie industry and aspiring screenwriter for over 20 years. Steady clients have included Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, and the William Morris Agency. She teaches screenwriting -- most recently for Cunard aboard the Queen Mary 2 -- and is a Senior Writer and script analyst for "scr(i)pt" magazine, and a guest speaker for Mark DeGasperi's screenplay marketing courses at NYU and The Learning Annex. Her YA novels from Simon & Schuster are Black Powder (Fall 2005), Tsarevich (2006), and Betsy And the Emperor (2004). Published in ten languages, Betsy and the Emperor has been called "An engaging novel" by The New York Times Book Review, and "The most romantic book of the year" by RTL Radio France. It is in development as a movie with Al Pacino attached to star, as reported in Variety.
