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Friday, January 30, 2009

How to Sell Your Screenplay

Mick Hoegen
This comes from www.MickHoegen.com
www.SAG.org/iActor/MickHoegen
401.258.3192

You’ve written FADE OUT in your screenplay. Now what?

Make 2009 the year you get your big break. Attend an in-depth screenwriting seminar focusing exclusively on marketing and selling your script.

· Avoid the 10 most common reasons screenplays end up in the slush pile
· Ready your screenplay for the marketplace
· Know the industry players and create a targeted hit list
· Develop an 8-step plan for getting your material read and sold
· Learn successful ways of landing an agent and/or manager
· Perfect your pitch
· Write stand-out query letters
· Identify the right producer for your screenplay
· Break into the studio system as a new writer
· And much, much more!!

WHEN: Saturday, February 21st – Noon – 4pm
WHERE: Perishable Theater, 95 Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903
COST: $50 – Online Registration (http://sellyourscript.eventbrite.com/)
$60 – Payment at the Door
Come learn from industry professional Chris Sparling – screenwriter, director, and owner of Scarred Heel Productions, Inc. Chris’s feature film, “An Uzi at the Alamo” was released on NetFlix and received its world television premier on HBO in December 2008. He is currently working with Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment (“You, Me & Dupree,” “Made of Honor,” “Knowing”) in adapting a short story for Sony Pictures. Chris is also an adjunct professor of screenwriting at Boston University, and is represented by United Talent Agency (UTA) in Los Angeles.
***Space is Limited. Register Today!!!***
(This is not an RIFC Production)

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