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IFA 022: The Art of Screenwriting with Pilar Alessandra
FromIndie Film Academy: A Filmmaking and Screenwriting Podcast
IFA 022: The Art of Screenwriting with Pilar Alessandra
FromIndie Film Academy: A Filmmaking and Screenwriting Podcast
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57 minutes
Released:
Jul 16, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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PILAR ALESSANDRA is the director of the popular writing program “On The Page” and author of “The Coffee Break Screenwriter.” A sought-after teacher and lecturer, she’s traveled the world teaching screenwriting, pitching and story analysis. As a consultant, Pilar has helped thousands of writers create, refine and sell their scripts and was named “Cream of the Crop” in Creative Screenwriting’s Script Consultant Survey. Her students and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers and Sony and have won prestigious competitions, including the Austin Film Festival and Nicholl Fellowship.Pilar jump-started her career in film as a script reader for Amblin Entertainment. With the formation of DreamWorks, she became Senior Story Analyst and a reader liaison between the studio and Robert Zemeckis’s company ImageMovers. Her expert script analysis was also sought out by The Robert Evans Company, Cineville Entertainment, Handprint Entertainment and Saturday Night Live Studios. Work at Interscope Communications led her to a position as Senior Story Analyst for Scott Kroopf’s production company Radar Pictures.Pilar was later bitten by the “teaching bug” while teaching screenwriting and story analysis at the UCLA Writers’ Program. In 2001, she started her own company “On the Page,” and in 2004 opened the On the Page Writers Studio in Sherman Oaks, California. In the interest of expanding access to her teaching tools, Pilar created the instructional DVD “On the Page” and presents the weekly “On the Page Podcast” with guests from within the industry. Recently, Pilar was listed as one of LA Weekly’s top 100 people in their “Best of LA People” issue.Proud Member of the IFH Podcast Network!For more great filmmaking and screenwriting podcasts:? http:///www.ifhpodcastnetwork.comAccess IFH Academy's Film Distribution: Confidential Course? http://www.indiefilmhustle.com/letmeinListen to more at Indie Film Hustle:? http://www.indiefilmhustle.comRead the Making of this film in Rise of the Filmtrepreneur: How to Turn Your Indie Film Into a Moneymaking Business? http://www.filmbizbook.com
Released:
Jul 16, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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