Top tutor to hold scriptwriting genre seminar in Brighton

A rare opportunity to study with a top UCLA Screenwriting Tutor and Hollywood-based Script Consultant Laurie Hutzler is on offer during a two-day seminar in Brighton.
The seminar held over the 14th and 15th of February will help get to the heart of the most popular genre films through a detailed examination of the nine basic story types and the nine key character types that inhabit genre films.
Held in the Cinematheque, Lighthouse, 9-12 Middle Street, Brighton the seminar, which costs £80 / £70 (concs.) and is subsidised by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, promises to "provide a clear and comprehensive set of practical tools" to help scriptwriters.
Among the topics will be:

• the three crucial questions at the heart of the most successful film genres;
• the fundamental secret that solves genre structure problems;
• how one critical character trait can transform an ordinary genre film and make it fresh and original;
• how to revitalize a genre and make it uniquely your own.

Laurie will also provide a comprehensive set of handouts to take away from the course for future reference.
Laurie Hutzler teaches screenwriting in both the Master of Fine Arts Program and the Professional Programs at the UCLA Film School.
She also lectures on story development in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Film Producing at UCLA.
Laurie also teaches regularly in Europe, recently in the UK she lectured at Women in Film and Television in London, Lighthouse in Brighton and the Screenwriters Workshop in London.
Professionally, Laurie has adapted over 100 short stories for television and film. Her plays have had productions in many LORT theaters around the United States and have been featured in two award-winning Lincoln Center DGA-sponsored programs in New York City.
She has an active consulting practice working on projects with executives from film finance funds, movie studios, production companies as well as with individual writers, directors, actors and producers.
Laurie consults on all phases of script and character development including story structure, dialogue and character motivation, psychology and transformation.
To book a place call tel. 01273 384222 or e-mail [email protected]
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