Write Screenplays That Sell: The Ackerman Way

You don't have to attend film school to take a screenwriting course with the master teacher in the dield - it's all in his book! Meet Hal Ackerman, up close and personal, just as hundreds of his students have known him through the years.

Over the last decade, a dozen screenplays +written in his caldsses have been sold and many have become films, including ones starring Tom Hanks (directed by Steven Spielberg), Gwyneth Paltrow, Hilary Swank and Diane Lane. Many other student scripts have dominated the major screewriting competitions.

With this book, every professional writer gets a lifetime collaborator and every aspiring writer has a teacher in residence on his or her shelf.

Hal Ackerman is emeritus Co-Area Head of the UCLA Screenwriting program. His book has guided the careers of scores of successful writers. He has sold original material to all the major studio and networks. He has had numerous short stories published in literary journals. “Belle & Melinda” was selected by Robert Olen Butler as the World’s Best Short Short story for Southeast Review. TESTOSTERONE: How Prostate Cancer Made A Man of Me won the William Saroyan Centennial Prize for drama. Under its new title, PRICK, it won BEST SCRIPT at the 2011 United Solo Festival.