ScriptBiz™Returns in 2009!

And it has a new look and an exciting one-day focus; August 3rd

Renaissance Providence Hotel, 5 Avenue of the Arts., Providence, RI

Listen to our 2008 Radio Commercial • ScriptBiz™

2009 Application Form, click here to download

• Read the News Release on last Year's Program, click here

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This Year's ScriptBiz™ Workshop Fees:

$110 for the one 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 3rd"

Order Your Pass Today:

Day One, Monday, August 3rd:

For more information on ScriptBiz '09, call the RIIFF offices at (401) 861-4445.

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ScriptBiz is one-day workshop that explores how to hone your

creative and business skills

Trying to navigate through the Hollywood system?  Tired of receiving rejection after rejection? 

The 13th Annual Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF) proudly presents ScriptBiz.09, a one day workshop that covers the nuts and bolts of being a screenwriter.  This year’s topic is “Make Your Own Success as a Writer” and is geared toward promoting yourself as a writer, finding producers, and networking your way to success.  .

This year’s annual ScriptBiz takes place August 3rd, at the Renaissance Providence Hotel, 5 Avenue of the Arts., Providence, RI.  On Monday, the workshop begins at 9 a.m. and runs to 5:30 p.m. The fee is $105. Registration is at 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Beverages 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 2009 ScriptBiz™ workshop, fill out and submit the downloadable application below. In celebration of this year’s 13th 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™ 2009

2009 Application Form, click here to download

The Program & Workshops from 2009:

Program Schedule:   

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration 

9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. “Make Your Own Success” Panel with Chris Sparling (Scarred Heels Productions), Ted Delany (The Times Were Never So Bad),  and Dave Bettencourt (You Must Be This Tall, On the Lake)   

12:00 p.m.  -  1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.  The Write Approach workshop with Ron Trippe (Producer of Space Jam, Everyone’s Hero) 

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Stage performance of 2009 Grand Prize Screenplay Winner. 

ALL SCRIPTBIZ PARTICIPANTS ARE INVITED TO THE
2009 RIIFF KICK-OFF PARTY TUESDAY EVENING!

Please Note: Former ScriptBiz Participants, Students, Faculty, RIIFF volunteers, Stay at Home Parents deduct ten percent.

REFUNDS: Refunds, minus a $50 office fee, will be available until July 15, 2009. After that date NO REFUNDS will be made. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding.

Who Was Who at ScriptBiz 2009:

Edward J. Delaney • about • Interview

Author, journalist, filmmaker and educator. Professor, Roger Williams University.

He is a recipient of a 2008 Literary Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a winner of the 2005 PEN/Winship Award for Fiction, and a past winner of an O.Henry Prize for short story writing. As a journalist he is a past winner of the National Education Reporting Award, and well as other national and regional awards. He was born in Fall River, Mass, and attended Fairfield University (B.S. Finance, 1979), and Boston University (M.S. Mass Communication, 1982). Delaney was a staff writer at The Denver Post and at the Colorado Springs Gazette, and has been a contributing writer for The Atlantic Monthly, The Chicago Tribune Magazine, The National,The Providence Journal Magazine and other publications. He has been a National Magazine Award finalist and his work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories. Delaney is Assistant Editor of The Nieman Journalism Lab, at The Nieman Foundation, Harvard University. Delaney has been a faculty member at Roger Williams University since 1990. He is a Professor of Communications and Creative Writing. He has also taught at The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and Colorado State University, where he was the Gannett Foundation Professional-in-Residence. He has published two books of fiction, the novel "Warp & Weft" and the collection "The Drowning and Other Stories," and has published short stories in The Atlantic and other magazines and quarterlies. He is the co-author of "Born to Play," by Boston Red Sox second baseman and 2008 American League Most Valuable Player Dustin Pedroia. The book will be published in July 2009 by Simon Spotlight Entertainment, an imprint of Simon and Schuster. Delaney has directed and produced a documentary film, "The Times Were Never So Bad: The Life of Andre Dubus," which premiered in 2007. It received a first place at The Rhode Island International Film Festival.

Chris Sparling is a writer/director originally from Providence, RI. His company, Scarred Heel Productions, produced the NetFlix- and HBO-released feature film An Uzi at the Alamo, the award-winning dramatic short film Balance. He also wrote the screenplay for the upcoming feature film Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds, which is being produced by The Safran Company. In addition to associate producing the feature-length documentary One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur, 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 has also served as an adjunct professor of screenwriting at Boston University, Emerson College, and Holyoke Community College..

Ron Tippe • about

Producer at IMAGI Animation Studios

Ron Tippe has been in the entertainment business for 37 years. He began
as a stage director and spent the first 9 years of his career directing
stage plays at various companies in New England. In addition, he was a
founding member and artistic director of the Incredibly Far
Off-Broadway Ensemble Theatre, which specialized in new play production
and staged productions set in different environmental locations. Ron
spent the next few years as a director of TV commercials, industrial
and education films, after which he spent years as a writer in Hollywood, CA. In 1994, Ron segued into the Feature Animation business when he produced the first Mickey Mouse short film, RUNAWAY BRAIN, which was nominated for an Oscar. At the same time he was the managing director of the Walt Disney Feature Animation Studio in Paris, France. Ron then went on to produce the hit film, SPACE JAM, at Warner Bros' Feature Animation studio. He subsequently worked at Dreamworks Feature Animation where he produced the pre-production for the hit film, SHREK. The next few years were spent working at George Lucas's ILM for a digital version of FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN, and at Warner Bros' Feature Animation producing a remake of the classic, MR. LIMPET. In 2004, he had the wonderful honor to work with Christopher Reeve on EVERYONE'S HERO, an animated feature for 20th Century Fox. In 2007, he produced the pre-production for Imagi Feature Animation Studios, GATCHAMAN. In 2008, Ron accepted a Visiting Professorship at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI. Ron is also a certified Life Coach specializing in issues of story telling and the creative process. He is also the founder of THE WRITE APPROACH, a RI based screen writing workshop whose debut will be made during the RIIFF 2009 season. Ron is married to Hollywood Costume Designer, Molly Maginnis. They have two children, Annie and Sam, and two pug dogs, Lucky and Lulu.

Apply to ScriptBiz 2009

2009 Application Form, click here to download

Program Coordinator for 2009:

Jenn Dlugos

Consultants:

George T. Marshall, Adam M.K. Short and Duncan Putney

Rhode Island International Film Festival™

Mailing: P.O. Box 162, Newport, Rhode Island 02840 (United States)
Street Address: 36 Rhode Island Avenue, Newport, RI 02840

Office: 268 Broadway, Providence, RI 02903
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