ScriptBiz™Returns in 2008!
And it has a new look and an exciting two-day focus; August 4-5th
Renaissance Providence Hotel, 5 Avenue of the Arts., Providence, RI
Listen to our 2008 Radio Commercial • ScriptBiz™
2008 Application Form, click here to download
• Read the News Release on this Year's Program, click here
• Winners of ScriptBiz™ Shorts Announced:
1st Place:
Ooh La La
SCOTT & PAULA MERROW
ALBUQUERQUE, NM
2nd Place:
The House in Cassandra
BETH DANESCO
FOXBORO, MA
3rd Place:
Never Again
MAX BAQUIRAN
EMERSON COLLEGE
BOSTON, MA
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This
Year's ScriptBiz™ Workshop Fees:
$105 per day or $150 for the two day program
Attention all scriptwriters with a story inside that is trying to get out: sign-up now for RIIFF’s ScriptBiz™ screenwriter’s workshop August 4-5th.
Order Your Pass Today:
Day One, Monday, August 4th:
Day Two, Tuesday, August 5th:
Two Day Pass, August 4-5th:
For more information on ScriptBiz '08, call the RIIFF offices at (401) 861-4445.
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ScriptBiz is two day workshop that
explores how to hone your
creative and business skills
 Got a great idea for a movie script, but don’t know where to begin? Or have you finished that masterpiece, but no clue what to do next?
The 12th Annual Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) proudly presents ScriptBiz.08, a two day workshop that covers the nuts and bolts of being a scriptwriter. The program is broken down into two parts: introductory and advanced. The RIIFF ScriptBiz Program is designed to guide writers not only through the creative process of writing, but ways to promote a screenplay to filmmakers through effective networking with tips on how to make a compelling pitch.
Topics for ScriptBiz 2008 also include intensive training on mastering the mechanics of scriptwriting with attention to structure, plot, character and dialogue. It includes helpful information on the use of appropriate computer software and formatting to aid in the writing process. Attendees will also learn how to market, sell and get paid for their screenplays.
This year’s annual ScriptBiz takes place August 4-5th, at the Renaissance Providence Hotel, 5 Avenue of the Arts., Providence, RI. On Monday, the workshop begins at 9 a.m. and runs to 6 p.m. The fee is $105. Registration is at 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. On Tuesday, the program begins at 9 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The fee is $105; or $150 for both days. Refreshments will be provided both in the morning and during the noontime break giving panelists and attendees an opportunity to network and discuss scriptwriting one-on-one.
To apply to the 2008 ScriptBiz™ workshop, fill out and submit the downloadable application
below. In celebration of this year’s 12th Annual RIIFF, students, stay-at-home parents, and previous Scriptbiz™ participants may call
for a discount from the cost of the workshop's day pass.
For information, please contact Adam Short, RIIFF Producing
Director at adams@film-festival.org,
or call the Festival Office at 401/861-4445.
Apply to ScriptBiz™ 2008
2008 Application Form, click here to download
Sampling of The Program & Workshops
for 2008:
Day One:
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE: MONDAY, AUGUST 4TH.
8:30 AM REGISTRATION: WITH COFFEE & PASTRIES; ALSO A TIME OF MEET AND GREET
9.00 AM -- 12:00 NOON: Writing the Script panels with Tim McIntyre, Pilar Alessandra, Ann Marie Murphy, Edward J Delany, and Chris Sparling. Participants will learn the ins-and-outs of script writing, learn how to make their story resonate with an audience, and learn how to write compelling dialogue.
12.00 PM LUNCH (on your own)
1.00 PM SCRIPT READINGS AND DISCUSSION FROM THE 2006 AND 2007 RIIFF SCREENPLAY COMPETITION READINGS (readings cast by AHTSPOT, www.ahtspot.com).
2006 Screenplay winner: “Slidin’ Home” by Jodi L. Johnson, North Hollywood, CA. A young boy with chronic illness and his grandfather go on a cross-country adventure to fulfill his dream of meeting the Boston Red Sox.
2007 Screenplay winner: “Last Ride of the Valkyrie” by David C. Mathews and Joel Davis from Los Angeles, CA When Valhalla is destroyed, Thyvalla the Valkyrie must battle the evil deity, Loki, to retrieve the fabled Odinstone. Thyvalla’s quest takes her to modern day Earth, where she meets a student of Norse mythology, who accompanies her back to the ruins of Valhalla to aid the Valkyrie in her epic struggle.
3:00 – 4:30 PM PITCH CONTEST
Attendees will have the opportunity to come up with a one-minute pitch for their screenplay, and present it to a panel of judges. The winning pitch will be announced Tuesday night and receive a free screenplay consultation from Silver Wing Script Services!
7:00 PM NETWORKING PARTY
DAY TWO:
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 5TH.
8:30 AM REGISTRATION: WITH…COFFEE & PASTRIES - ALSO A TIME OF MEET AND GREET
9.00 - 12:00 PM MARKETING YOUR SCRIPT PANEL. Michael Corrente, Edward J. Delaney, Erik Latek, Steven Feinberg, Randy Steinberg, and Chris Sparling. Participants will learn how to make a compelling pitch, effective networking skills, treatment writing, and how to increase their chances of getting their material read by producers.
12:00 PM LUNCH
1:00 - 2:30 PM Scriptbiz Short Contest Winners' Readings
2:30 - 5:00 PM Participants will be able to use the marketing skills they learned with a Screenwriters' Networking Party at TEMPLE BAR on Thayer Street!
Plus, the Announcement of Pitch Contest Winner; 2006/2007 Screenwriting Contest Winners Award Ceremony.
ALL SCRIPTBIZ PARTICIPANTS ARE INVITED TO THE
2008 RIIFF KICK-OFF PARTY TUESDAY EVENING!
(Lunch and snacks included
in workshop fees.)
Please Note: Former ScriptBiz Participants,
Students, Faculty, RIIFF volunteers, Stay at Home Parents,
and Short Script Contestants deduct ten percent.
REFUNDS: Refunds,
minus a $50 office fee, will be available until July
15, 2008. After that date NO REFUNDS will be made. Sorry
for any inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding.
Who's Who at ScriptBiz:
 Pilar Alessandra is the director of the popular writing program On the Page. Her screenwriting podcasts - with guests from within the industry - regularly appear in the film and TV top 100. She’s worked as Senior Story Analyst for DreamWorks and Radar pictures and first caught the “teaching bug” as an instructor with the UCLA Writers Program. Since creating On the Page in 2001, she’s trained writers and story analysts at ABC/Disney, Nickelodeon and MTV and and has taught at numerous writing conferences including The American Screenwriting Association, The FTX Film and Television Festival and Creative Screenwriting Magazine’s Screenwriting Expo where she’s an annual “Star Speaker.” Students and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers and Sony and have won prestigious competitions such as the Open Door Competition, Fade-In Competition and Nicholl Fellowship. “On the Page: the DVD,” a collection of Pilar’s ten-minute writing tools, is available on Amazon. (To learn more, read the interview with Pilar, click here)
 Michael Corrente was born in 1959 in Pawtucket, Rhode
Island. At an early age he was exposed to film and
to theater; it was a high-school field trip to Providence's
Trinity Square Repertory Company to see a production
of A Man for All Seasons that convinced him to pursue
a career in the arts. Following completion of his
studies at the Trinity Repertory Conservatory in 1981
under the tutelage of Adrian Hall, Corrente bartered
his abilities as a contractor in return for rehearsal
spaces and production opportunities, mounting over
25 productions. Three years later he left Providence
for Manhattan, where he wrote the one-act, semi-autobiographical
Federal Hill and eventually established the Studio
B Theatre Ensemble.
Following an off-Broadway run of his play, Michael
teamed with film director Bill Durkin in 1989 and
the two produced a nine-minute film short entitled
Title Shot. Over the next few years, Michael continued
to develop the screenplay version of his one-act play.
Eventually, in 1993, Federal Hill was filmed in Providence
in less than a month. It starred his future wife,
Libby Langdon, and NYPD Blue star Nick Turturro. Corrente
was then signed by Castle Rock to helm the feature
adaptation of David Mamet's three-character drama
"American Buffalo" with Al Pacino set to
star. When Pacino balked at using the relatively novice
director, the studio put the project in turnaround
where it languished until the Samuel Goldwyn Company
agreed to distribute it. Teaming Dustin Hoffman and
Dennis Franz, "American Buffalo" premiered
at the 1996 Boston Film Festival. Other films directed
by Mr. Corrente include: The Berkeley Connection (2006),
Brooklyn Rules (2006), A Shot at Glory (2000), Outside
Providence (1999). Most recently, Michael has returned
to Providence to work on a number of projects, including
his much anticipated Buddy Cianci film "The Prince
of Providence."
 Edward J Delaney is a fiction writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of the short-story collection The Drowning and of the novel Warp & Weft, which received the 2005 PEN/Winship Award. He is the recipient of a 2008 Fiction Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a 2009 film fellowship from the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts. His stories have appeared regularly in The Atlantic Monthly and have been anthologized in the O.Henry and Best American Short Stories collections. His documentary film about the short story writer Andre Dubus, "The Times Were Never So Bad," premiered last year at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. He has just completed a feature-length adaptation of his short story "Conspiracy Buffs," to be shot in 2009 by filmmaker Michael Grasso. Delaney, a former reporter for The Denver Post, teaches journalism and creative writing at Roger Williams University. (To learn more, read the interview with Ted, click here)
Steven Feinberg attended UCLA and the USC Film School. He has sold screenplays and pitches to 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Miramax, Village Roadshow, Columbia-Tri Star, Universal, and more. He co-produced and co-wrote FORTRESS (1993) and co-wrote the sequel’s story, FORTRESS 2. Since April, 2004, when he became the Director of the Rhode Island Film & Television Office, he has brought to the state $30 million worth of production, including the Showtime series BROTHERHOOD, creating 150 full-time jobs for local crew and hundreds more for actors and extras. www.rifilm.com
 Tim McIntire has been one of the most prolific comics in Boston for nearly a decade. He began his career in Colorado and honed his act on the road, working every comedy club, roadhouse, and speakeasy between California and Pennsylvania. After moving to Boston to move in with a hot girlfriend—who would eventually become his hot wife—he quickly became a fixture in the comedy scene, gaining notoriety for his Thursday Night Fights at the Comedy Studio, his edgy hosting job for the Boston Music Awards, and for his first comedy album, Poor Impulse Control. Since that time, he's released a second album (Scatterbrain), written for Nickelodeon (Fairly Oddparents), been featured on National Public Radio (Special Edition with Tom Ashbrook), performed at several comedy festivals (Boston and Chicago), and appeared on TV (Comcast Comedy Spotlight). The Boston Globe has called him a "comic on the verge of stardom," and the Boston Herald has called him "a breakout comic to watch." He is currently seeking representation for his first novel, Suicide Lane.
 Anne Marie Murphy is the president of Eastern Script is, a New England native and now resident of Kingston, Ontario.
After taking an undergraduate degree cum laude in English Literature from Bowdoin College, she worked for years in various aspects of the film industry in both Boston & Los Angeles then completed a Master's Degree at the UCLA Film School summa cum laude before opening Eastern Script in 1993. The company now employs seven researchers in the U.S. & Canadian offices.
She often shares her expertise as a speaker at varied venues, among them:
• Canadian Film Centre's Film Resident Programme
• Montreal Film Festival producer's insurance panel
• Producer's insurance panel of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television
• Harvard Square Scriptwriters seminar
• Ontario Media Development Corporation's Producer Internship Program
• Queen's University Department of Film Studies production classes
In addition to her 20 years of experience specific to script clearances and title searches, she has worked in other branches of the film and television industries in jobs as varied as... repertory cinema manager, freelance movie reviewer, assistant film booker, cinematheque programmer, production office manager.
 Chris Sparling is a writer/director originally from Providence, RI. His company, Scarred Heel Productions, produced the NetFlix-released feature film An Uzi at the Alamo, the award-winning dramatic short film Balance, and is currently in pre-production on the feature film Shadows on the Sun. In addition to associate producing the feature-length documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur for Tango Pix, Chris has also produced and directed a number of television and commercial productions for clients including Pepsi, Starbucks, Snuggle, Kimberly Clark, Dannon, Dove, and Target. He served as adjunct professor of screenwriting at Holyoke Community College and continues to teach independent filmmaking and screenwriting at the Learning Connection in Providence.
 Randy Steniberg has a master's degree in Film, with a concentration in Screenwriting, from Boston University. From 1999-2004 he taught Screenwriting as an adjunct instructor at BU. He was a full-time, Visiting Assistant Professor of Screenwriting from 2005-2007. Currently, he is BU's Film and Television Department Motion Picture Industry Coordinator, an outreach position. He also continues to teach screenwriting as an adjunct at BU.
In his personal writing, Steinberg is part of a duo called 'The Script Sages,' which writes original screenplays and helps other writers to market their material. Steinberg is currently working with three companies in Los Angeles on different projects. Please visit www.scriptsages.com to learn
more.
Apply to ScriptBiz 2008
2008 Application Form, click here to download
Program
Coordinator for 2008:
Jenn Dlugos
Consultants:
George T. Marshall, Adam M.K.
Short, Duncan Putney & Dana Biscotti Myskowski
Rhode Island International
Film Festival™
Mailing: P.O. Box 162, Newport, Rhode Island 02840 (United States)
Street Address: 96 Second Street, Newport, RI 02840
Office: 268 Broadway, Providence, RI 02903
Tel/Fax: (401) 861-4445 / 490-6735
info@film-festival.org
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