Screen Writing Workshop with Susan Emshwiller January 14, 2006

General $20-40.00 ss. Special Student Fee: $15 with current student photo ID card
Register: programs@divanow.org or call 954-8373

Screen Writer and Director Susan Emshwiller will conduct a three hour workshop on writing for motion pictures. She will be talking about story, characterization, dialogue, structure, as well as inspiration and writer's block. There will be several points in which participants will write excercises or examples to illustrate some of these points. These be discussed after writing them, which will invariably bring more screenwriting issues into play.

Emshwiller's short film, Breakfast Messages, has won numerous festival awards. She has written and directed several plays, including the critically-acclaimed and award-wining Brushstrokes. She co-wrote that academy award winning film "Pollock," for actor-director Ed Harris. Her current film, In The Land of Milk and Money is her feature debut as screenwriter/director. Emshwiller's screenplay "The Furnace" just won the Hollywood Gateway screenplay competition

In addition to co-writing "Pollock," Emshwiller has adapted several other film scripts, including "Dogtown," for actor Amy Madigan, and "Hole in the Day" and "A Few Days with Me," for actor Bill Pullman. She has written many original screenplays, including "Mother's Day," "Cowboy Fiction," "Cement Shoes," "Burger World," "Blind Sight," and "The Furnace."