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Know Spiderman's real name? John Wayne's last movie? Screenwriters Workshop will present a Movie IQ Quiz in conjunction with our Leave Em' Hooked Screenplay Showcase at Comedysportz Theater, July 21st at 7:30 pm. We're giving away money too!
The Movie IQ Quiz covers the gamut of general movie knowledge.--from current to classic. The individual with the most correct answers will receive $100, second place $50, and third place $25. Think you know movies? Show us what you got! Don't miss the Leave 'em Hooked Screenplay Showcase and Movie IQ Quiz at Comedysportz Theater (Calhoun Square, Uptown), July 21st at 7:30 pm.
Prizes: 1st/$100, 2nd/$50, 3rd/$25, plus door prizes!
Exam Fee: $5
When: July 21st at 7:30 pm
Where: Comedysportz Theater
3001 Hennepin Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Email or call Ed at (651) 341-8162 to reserve your space. See you there!
Think your scripts first 15 pages can grab an audience? Prove it! Screenwriters Workshop announces our first-ever “Leave 'em Hooked” Screenwriters Showcase. All you have to do is submit the first 15 pages of your feature-length screenplay (not the whole script, silly) and our judges will select the five best to be read by professional actors before a live audience. At the end the audience will vote which screenplay they would most like to see and $100 will go to the winner.
Who: Screenwriters Workshop
What: "Leave 'Em Hooked" Screenwriters Showcase
Where: Comedysportz Theater, Minneapolis
Why: Introduce screenwriter's work to the public and provide feedback to the screenwriter
When: July 21, 2008, 7:30 pm
How: Submit application along with first 15 pages
Cost: Free
Details: Submission deadline is June 1, 2008. Open to Screenwriters Workshop members. Script pages must be from a feature-length screenplay (preferably completed). Short films are not eligible. Submitted scripts will be judged on: compelling hook, quality of writing, and memorable characters. Judges will provide screenwriters feedback on their entries. Maximum of three entries per person (or team).
For more information on the "Leave 'Em Hooked" Screenwriters Showcase download the application. You can also contact the Showcase Coordinator via email with questions.
Do you got what it takes to "Leave 'em Hooked?"
The Screenwriters Workshop's 2nd Tuesday Reading Series continues June 10, 2008, at 7pm, with short film screenplays by Chris Durant and more.
The Screenwriters Workshop's 2nd Tuesday Reading Series continues May 13, 2008, at 7pm, with a sci-fi feature-length screenplay by Eau Claire (and former Minnesotan) screenwriter Dave Qualey. In "Essence," humanity's survival is at stake on a lonely moon outpost.
Screenwriters Workshop is pleased to announce the guidelines for the 2008 Screenlabs Challenge!
Screenwriters Workshop designed ScreenLabs as a filmmaking development program, intended to foster collaboration among writers, directors, producers, talent and crew through bringing original scripts to the screen. The Challenge was started in 2007 as a contest to empower screenwriters to produce their own scripts.
This years theme is "Agony and bliss: Unrequited love." This should be an integral theme that runs through each submitted film/video. As with last years ScreenLabs Challenge, we require a particular location be included in all completed films/videos. For 2008 filmmakers must include the "Witch's Hat" water tower in Prospect Park, Minneapolis, as a location.
UPDATE (April 16, 2008): All applicants must submit an email by Friday, June 13, 2008, with the following information: your name, project title, mailing address, and email address.
Download the 2008 ScreenLabs Challenge application here.
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The Screenwriters Workshop's 2nd Tuesday Reading Series continues April 8, 2008, at 7pm, with a feature-length screenplay by Minneapolis writer John Ervin. "Catfight" is about how two rival teams of documentary filmmakers, following the opposing Congressional campaigns of a pair of Elvis-besotted women, are able to affect the election with the aid of the King's ghost. Also, a short script by writer Chris Durant will be read.
Screenwriters Workshop member Al Easter has won the Saint Cloud State University Short Screenplay Competition. A jury of three unanimously selected Easter's screenplay, entitled "The Jigsaw Puzzle," from the field of entries. Asked what it feels like to win, Easter said: "[The] $200 prize isn't much but the script is only 5 pages long so that's $40 a page. Not bad."
Contest organizers required submitted scripts be producible in St. Cloud and limited to 5-pages in length. When asked if he could provide a copy of the script for our readers, Al said: "Wait for the DVD." A short while later the script showed up in our e-mail. You can read it here. Production is slated for the end of May in St. Cloud. Easter is a member of Screenwriters Workshop's Sunday evening script group. Congratulations, Al!
Screenwriters Workshop member David Pollard has won first place in an online screenwriting contest at MoviePoet.com. Pollard is a member of Screenwriters Workshop's Sunday evening script group.
Each month, MoviePoet runs a free online five-page screenplay contest. The goal, per the MoviePoet website, is to "help writers improve their craft, celebrate our best work, and connect writers and their scripts with filmmakers." The contest Pollard won, entitled "One is the loneliest number," challenged writers to come up with a story with one character, no dead bodies, and no off-screen voices. Pollard's script, entitled "When it rains," is about a female thief who has a rough night.
"I am surprised to have [won] with this short," says Pollard, "because I wasn't greatly pleased with it myself and kept trying to come up with something else to put in the... contest - but hey, what do I know." Shortly after winning the contest Pollard was contacted by filmmaker Jim Montgomery at SFG Media seeking to produce the piece.
Read Pollard's winning entry and others here. Congratulations, David!
(Photo: Nicole Vicius and Sam Rosen read "Tuscaloosa") Tracy McCormick of MSP Mag's "The Morning After" has reviewed Screenwriters Workshop's ScriptNight reading of "Tuscaloosa," held at the Guthrie Theater February 20, 2008. Check it out here.
Screenwriters Workshop thanks our sponsors Fredrikson & Byron, Minnesota Film and TV Board, Minneapolis Community and Technical College, The Rake Magazine, and everybody who help make ScriptNight a success!
Euan Kerr of Minnesota Public Radio's "Movie Natters" casts the spotlight on Screenwriters Workshop's upcoming ScriptNight feature "Tuscaloosa," to be held at the Guthrie Theater February 20, 2008, at 7:30pm. Check it out here.
Scroll down for information on ScriptNight and how to purchase tickets to "Tuscaloosa." See you there!
The Screenwriters Workshop's 2nd Tuesday Reading Series continues March 11, 2008, at 7pm, with an as yet untitled feature-length screenplay by Minneapolis writer Elizabeth Dickinson. It's 1720. One young American woman, rich, intelligent, and bored, and one older English woman, poor, uneducated, and ambitious are drawn together by their desire to rebel against convention and to be more than their upbringing suggests, becoming unlikely pirates-and friends. A musical based on a real life story, Dickinsen describes it as Thelma & Louise on the high seas.
The Screenwriters Workshop's 2nd Tuesday Reading Series continues February 12, 2008, at 7pm, with a feature-length screenplay by Minneapolis writer Perry Lueders. In "2G's and a BLT," a retired gay couple and lesbian seek bi-sexual and transgender roommates to start a "Queer House." Historical housing restrictions and health problems cause the new, younger roommates to become part-time caregivers. Will the strain of tolerence and old age be too much for the "2G's and a BLT?"
The Screenwriters Workshop 2nd Tuesday series continues January 8, 2008, at 7pm, with a feature-length screenplay by Minneapolis writer Ron Johnson. In "Meth Lab" four college kids out to score some weed pull a practical joke on a drug dealer, resulting in a life or death situation. Learn more about Ron Johnson and his work at Frozen State Productions.
2nd Tuesday offers screenwriters the opportunity to hear their screenplay read aloud, beginning to end, in one sitting. Participants will be asked to read one or more parts, then afterward will have an opportunity to give feedback (i.e. comments on overall concept, script construction, character, individual scenes, dialogue, etc.). Suggestions for improving are encouraged.
2nd Tuesday takes place at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, 1501 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403, in the Technical Buidling, Rm T-1020 (the Executive Conference Room). A campus map can be found here. Hope to see you there!
Minnesota Public Radio's "Movie Natters," by Euan Kerr, mentioned Screenwriters Workshop's upcoming ScriptNight feature "Flim Flam Man," to be held at the Guthrie Theater on Oct. 16, 2007, 7:30pm. Check it out here.
Scroll down for information on ScriptNight and how to purchase tickets to "Flim Flam Man."
The Screenwriters Workshop 2nd Tuesday series continues October 9, 2007, 7pm, with a new feature-length screenplay by Minneapolis writer Tim Franz. In "Body of Clay" a dying intern must make difficult decisions when he discovers one of his patients is his clone. 2nd Tuesday had a great turnout last month. Thanks to everyone who participated.
2nd Tuesday offers screenwriters the opportunity to hear their screenplay read aloud, beginning to end, in one sitting. Participants will be asked to read one or more part then, afterward, have a chance to give feedback (i.e. comments on overall concept, script construction, character, individual scenes, dialogue and more). Suggestions for improving the next draft are encouraged also.
2nd Tuesday takes place at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, 1501 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403, in the Technical Building, Rm T-1020 (Executive Conference Rm). A campus map can be found here.
Jennifer Vogel's engaging and relentless account of her outlaw father is being adapted for film by British playwright and film director Jez Butterworth ("Birthday Girl," "Mojo" and "The Last Legion"). Vogel and Butterworth will be at the Guthrie along with a local cast for this ScriptNight reading. ScriptNight is an on-going script development program of the Screenwriters Workshop. Open to the public. Hope to see you there!