Continuing Education and Workshops for Professionals

The Filmmakers Workshop is their flagship event, a three-day conference that connects talented young filmmakers with Hollywood industry veterans. Their faculty includes successful writers, producers, directors, and other professionals from film and television. Tuition, room and board is free for participants.

(For their purposes the term “filmmakers” encompasses producers, TV writers, documentarians, videographers, new-media creators, and undoubtedly some category they haven’t thought of yet — anybody who writes, directs or produces for a film or video camera medium, whether the camera is 35MM or an iPhone. In the fast-changing world of digital media, the lines are blurring more every day.)

Through a sequence of panels, work sessions, and discussion groups, their faculty share their accumulated experience and industry know-how with their students. The curriculum is focused on providing practical information and feedback you can actually use. Sessions feature such topics as How to Pitch Your Idea, How to Land a Job on a TV Writing Staff, and How to Fund an Independent Film.

Students also get an opportunity to work alongside and network with like-minded filmmakers. Throughout the weekend there are plenty of social occasions to meet and interact with the faculty as well as with a terrific set of peers and friends of the organization.

How much will all of this cost you? To selected applicants, absolutely nothing! Tuition for the workshop is free, thanks to the generosity of their donors. Room and board for the weekend are also free. And limited travel funds are available to some attendees.

Past faculty include:

• Cale Boyter (producer) - Wedding Crashers; History of Violence; Elf
• Daisy Gardner (writer/producer) - South Park; 30 Rock; Californication
• Daniel Knauf (writer/producer) - Carnivale, Spartacus, Dracula (w/ Jonathan Rhys Meyers)
• Jennifer Simpson (producer) – Legally Blond 2; Penelope
• David Steinberg (screenwriter) – American Pie 2; Slackers
• Craig Titley (screenwriter) - Percy Jackson and the Olympians; Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Resources:

talnexus.com