Schedule

The Screenwriters World Conference schedule is designed to help you hone your writing and pitching skills, and to put those skills into action in networking opportunities and events that directly connect you with the people who can help move your writing career forward. As Virgil said, “Fortune favors the bold”—so come to the conference ready to make your screenwriting dreams come true!
There's a reason The Writers Store is still in business after 30 years, and it's the same reason any writer manages to survive that long: They figured out what they were good at and kept working hard to get better at it. The next generation of screenwriters, I'm sure, will find as I have, there’s really no other place like it. - Steven Zaillian, Oscar winner (Schindler's List)

Three Tracks to Help You Focus Your Learning Experience

Feature Screenplays
The Business of Screenwriting
The Small Screen and Beyond
Friday, October 19, 2012
8:00 am - 8:50 amSecrets of the 60 Second Pitch [More Info]
Michael Hauge, Story Consultant/Author/Lecturer
9:00 am - 12:00 pmPitch Slam
12:00 pm - 12:50 pmLunch - On your own
1:00 pm - 4:50 pmPitch Slam
6:00 pm - 7:15 pmOpening Keynote: Navigating Hollywood: Developing a Strategy to Sell your Script [More Info]
Christopher Lockhart, William Morris Endeavor Story Editor, Filmmaker, Educator
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNetworking Reception

Saturday, October 20, 2012
9:00 am - 9:50 amPixar's Emotional Core: The Secret to Its Record-Breaking Success [More Info]
Karl Iglesias, Instructor, UCLA Writer's Program
Writing the Spec Script That Launches Your Career [More Info]
Corey Mandell, President, Three Dog Productions
Television Success Strategies [More Info]
Carole Kirschner, Entertainment Career Coach, Park on the Lot, Entertainment Career Strategies
10:00 am - 10:50 amBefore FADE IN: [More Info]
Dwayne Alexander Smith, Screenwriter, Damn Good Ideas Productions
Todd Klick, Author, Screenwriter, Producer, President of Writerwrench.com
Syd Field, Script Consultant and Author
Michael Hauge, Story Consultant/Author/Lecturer
Wendy Kram, Producer and Script Consultant
Lee Jessup, Career Coach
The Screenwriters' Guide to Entering (and Winning) Screenwriting Contests [More Info]
Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, Editor and Online Community Manager, ScriptMag.com
Ray Morton, Author and Script Consultant, SPW Productions
Barri Evins, Producer; Screenwriting Teacher and Consultant, Be Movies; Big Ideas
Joan Wai, Program Manager, Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting
Inside the Network and Studio Machine [More Info]
Eric Edson, Author, Professor of Screenwriting and Director of the Graduate Program in Screenwriting at California State University, Cal State Northridge
Carole Kirschner, Entertainment Career Coach, Park on the Lot, Entertainment Career Strategies
Ellen Sandler, , Sandler Ink
Chad Gervich,
Paul S. Levine, Literary Agent/Lawyer, Paul S. Levine Literary Agency
11:00 am - 11:50 amThe Art of Story [More Info]
Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, Editor and Online Community Manager, ScriptMag.com
Karl Iglesias, Instructor, UCLA Writer's Program
William Martell, Screenwriter, First Strike Productions
Pamela Jaye Smith, Consultant, Teacher, MYTHWORKS
Hooky Ideas - Capturing the Big Fish [More Info]
Barri Evins, Producer; Screenwriting Teacher and Consultant, Be Movies; Big Ideas
The A-B-Cs of Television Script Structure [More Info]
Aaron Ginsburg, TV writer/producer, NBC's Do No Harm
Erik Bork, Writer/Producer and Writing Consultant, Flyingwrestler.com
Ellen Sandler, , Sandler Ink
Jen Grisanti, Story/Career Consultant and Writing Instructor, Jen Grisanti Consultancy Inc.
12:00 pm - 12:50 pmLunch - provided
1:00 pm - 1:50 pmThe Three-Act Structure and Beyond [More Info]
Todd Klick, Author, Screenwriter, Producer, President of Writerwrench.com
José Silerio, Screenwriter
Eric Edson, Author, Professor of Screenwriting and Director of the Graduate Program in Screenwriting at California State University, Cal State Northridge
Syd Field, Script Consultant and Author
Barri Evins, Producer; Screenwriting Teacher and Consultant, Be Movies; Big Ideas
Getting Past the Reader [More Info]
Melody Jackson, Founder and Chief Smart Girl, Smart Girls Productions, Inc
Dwayne Alexander Smith, Screenwriter, Damn Good Ideas Productions
Ray Morton, Author and Script Consultant, SPW Productions
Mike Kuciak, Producer, Samurai MK
William Massa, Screenwriter
Writing the TV Spec That Sells [More Info]
Erik Bork, Writer/Producer and Writing Consultant, Flyingwrestler.com
Paul Chitlik, Clinical Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University
Chad Gervich,
William Rabkin
Brad Schreiber, Writer-Producer, Parallel Universe
2:00 pm - 2:50 pmScript Secrets [More Info]
William Martell, Screenwriter, First Strike Productions
Pitch Perfect [More Info]
Danny Manus, Script Consultant, No BullScript Consulting
Michele Wallerstein, Screenplay, Novel, Career Consultant and author of MIND YOUR BUSINESS: A Hollywood Literary Agent's Guide To Your Writing Career
Devorah Cutler-Rubenstein, President; CEO; Founder, Noble House Entertainment, Inc.; The Script (&Novel) Broker®; The Open Space On Melrose
Barri Evins, Producer; Screenwriting Teacher and Consultant, Be Movies; Big Ideas
How to Tell and Sell Your Spec Script [More Info]
Jen Grisanti, Story/Career Consultant and Writing Instructor, Jen Grisanti Consultancy Inc.
3:00 pm - 3:50 pmCast of Characters [More Info]
Dwayne Alexander Smith, Screenwriter, Damn Good Ideas Productions
Steve Faber, Screenwriter
Pamela Jaye Smith, Consultant, Teacher, MYTHWORKS
Anthony Grieco,
Michael Hauge, Story Consultant/Author/Lecturer
Lee Jessup, Career Coach
Tools of the Trade: Query Letters, Treatments, Loglines, and More! [More Info]
Corey Mandell, President, Three Dog Productions
Melody Jackson, Founder and Chief Smart Girl, Smart Girls Productions, Inc
Danny Manus, Script Consultant, No BullScript Consulting
Devorah Cutler-Rubenstein, President; CEO; Founder, Noble House Entertainment, Inc.; The Script (&Novel) Broker®; The Open Space On Melrose
Julian Friedmann, Co-Owner, Blake Friedmann Literary Agency
Great in the Room - Getting in ... and Staying in.... the Writers Room [More Info]
Carole Kirschner, Entertainment Career Coach, Park on the Lot, Entertainment Career Strategies
Ellen Sandler, , Sandler Ink
Aaron Ginsburg, TV writer/producer, NBC's Do No Harm
Jim Campolongo, Co-Producer/Consulting Producer
Bob DeRosa, Screenwriter
4:00 pm - 4:50 pmWriting Real-Life Dialogue [More Info]
Karl Iglesias, Instructor, UCLA Writer's Program
Steve Faber, Screenwriter
William Martell, Screenwriter, First Strike Productions
William Massa, Screenwriter
Anthony Grieco,
What I Really Want is Representation - The Agent and Manager Panel [More Info]
Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, Editor and Online Community Manager, ScriptMag.com
Terri Zinner,
Brian Spink, Manager/Producer, REALM Literary
Jeff Graup, CEO, Graup Entertainment
Julian Friedmann, Co-Owner, Blake Friedmann Literary Agency
Developing and Pitching the Television Series [More Info]
Jen Grisanti, Story/Career Consultant and Writing Instructor, Jen Grisanti Consultancy Inc.
Paul Chitlik, Clinical Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University
Bob Gustafson, Sr. Story Producer, ABC's Glass House
Chad Gervich,
William Rabkin
5:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Sunday, October 21, 2012
9:00 am - 9:50 amTHE INDUSTRY-READY CHECKLIST: [More Info]
Pilar Alessandra, Director, On the Page, Inc.
Breaking in From Outside L.A. [More Info]
Jeanne Veillette Bowerman, Editor and Online Community Manager, ScriptMag.com
A Screenwriters Guide to Interactive Books [More Info]
Jeffrey Alan Schechter,
10:00 am - 10:50 amThe HIDDEN TOOLS OF COMEDY [More Info]
Steve Kaplan, Script Consultant, Steve Kaplan's Comedy Intensive
Getting An Agent The Old Fashioned Way - The Query Letter [More Info]
Richard Walter, Screenwriter, Professor
ANOTHER PATH TO GLORY: How screenwriters can grow in the comic book market [More Info]
Art Holcomb, Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, ANDROMEDA ENTERTAINMENT
11:00 am - 11:50 amThe Rewrite [More Info]
Corey Mandell, President, Three Dog Productions
Paul Chitlik, Clinical Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University
Jeffrey Alan Schechter,
Pilar Alessandra, Director, On the Page, Inc.
Adapting Articles and Books for TV & Film [More Info]
Brad Schreiber, Writer-Producer, Parallel Universe
New Media and Today's Screenwriter [More Info]
Aaron Mendelsohn, TV, Screen, and New Media, AM Entertainment, Inc
12:00 pm - 12:50 pmClosing Keynote [More Info]
Syd Field, Script Consultant and Author