The Screenwriter's Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Marketing Guide for Screen and Television Writers - Softcover

Haddad, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556525508 ISBN 13: 9781556525506

Publisher: Chicago Review Press, 2005

Synopsis

Written for both new and experienced writers, this comprehensive marketing guide offers advice and tips needed by writers to succeed in the film and television industries. Focusing on the business of writing, it gives writers the unabashed truth about the film industry, and advice on how to get scripts to the gatekeepers of the studios and read by agents. Comprehensive listings of contests, fellowships, grants, and development opportunities from an industry expert provide specific information on securing a healthy writing career. This extensive resource also includes guidelines regarding copyrights, sources for emergency funds, a listing of online resources, information on writers' colonies and retreats, and more.

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About the Author

Michael Haddad is a story analyst for Paramount Pictures. He has written and cowritten screenplays for more than a dozen feature films and a half dozen shorts and has written spec scripts for several television shows including Alf, Married with Children, Roc, and Seinfeld. He was the America's Funniest People grand prize winner; festival winner for the Cork International Film Festival and Film Crash, NYC; and screenplay winner for the Telluride IndieFest. He lives in South Pasadena, California.

From Booklist

Some how-to books for writers offer hints about plotting, character design, dialogue, and other specific aspects of translating ideas into stories. Haddad, a studio story analyst and scriptwriter, leaves all that creative stuff to us. Let's assume, he says, that you have a finished script you want to sell. How do you do that? How do you get somebody to read the darn thing? The book has three broad sections (or acts, in movie lingo): contests, career opportunities, and resources. The first section is a list of screenwriting contests: who runs them, how much it costs to enter, and so on. Section two offers a state-by-state list of agents, managers, and production companies. The third section describes the various organizations--colonies, retreats, public agencies, and online resources--available to a screenwriter. The book also has a good glossary, to bring the reader up to speed on terms he or she needs to know (such as sublim, zip pan, and brad). A useful if unadorned resource guide for the screenwriter with product to peddle. David Pitt
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About this edition

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1556525508
• ISBN 13: 9781556525506
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384