Tallgrass Filmmakers Lab: Screenwriting For Low Budget Production This workshop is not about writing a screenplay you can sell… it’s about writing a movie you can make. TFF alumni filmmaker and Ad Astra recipient Laura Lee Bahr presents Screenwriting for Low-Budget Production on Saturday June 23 from 1 – 3 pm at the Innovation Center at WDDC. (507 E. Douglas). In L.A., everyone has a screenplay for a multi-million budget movie, but at Tallgrass we see movies with stories that fe...

“Write Right” is an intensive course designed to launch your career as a writer. Whether you’re a rank beginner, or a seasoned veteran, you’ll learn new insights about the business and art of writing for film and TV. Everyone is looking for scripts. The challenge is to create saleable screenplays, and then develop a successful marketing strategy.  For more info, visit http://www.raindance.org/site/write-right-screenwriting-class-toronto ...

Macedonian-Polish action spec wins the first Central European Pitch Forum Veteran Macedonian-born Swiss writer-director Mitko Panov took first prize and 5 thousand euro along with it at the closing event of the 2007 Fade In Central European Pitch Forum, the continent’s first story market, for his Balkan-set drama-actioner Witness.The 2 thousand euro-worth special jury prize went to Paolo Poti from Italy for his drama screenplay The God of the Hills, while the award for the best Eastern Europea...