The Applause Screenwriting Competition
is pleased to have the following industry representives select the
three winning entries.
JAMES DALESSANDRO
Screenwriter, Screenwriting Instructor, Novelist, Poet
Website: www.we-penguins.com
James Dalessandro teaches screenwriting
at the Fort Mason Art Center in San Francisco. He has sold more
than a dozen feature films, including his novel and screenplay 1906,
a thriller set in San Francisco just before the devastating earthquake
and fire. He has also written trailers for Crimson Sky Entertainment/
Columbia Pictures. He is the author of four books, including Citizen
Jane, the best-selling mystery Bohemian Heart and Canary In A Coal
Mine, a collection of poems. He was the founder and director of
the Santa Cruz Poetry Festival from 1973-1978.
LEW HUNTER
Professor, UCLA School of Film & Television
Website: www.lewhunter.com
Lew Hunter,
former chairman and professor of Screenwriting at the UCLA Department
of Film and Television, has 23 years of combined experience as a
professional screenwriter and producer and 17 years of experience
as a Hollywood executive. An experienced screenwriter and former
director of motion pictures for TV Mini-Series for NBC, Lew's credits
include The Execution of Private Slovak, Born Innocent, The Law,
The Red Badge of Courage and Centennial. Lew authored The Secrets
of Screenwriting and Screenwriting 434, named after UCLA's legendary
graduate-level workshop. Lew and his wife Pamela host the annual,
two-week long Superior Screenwriting
Colony in Superior Nebraska.
JAMES
McDONALD
Story Analyst, Walt Disney Company
Email: jmmcdonald@earthlink.net
Jim holds an MFA
in directing from the U.C.L.A. School of Film & TV and a BA
in communications from Stanford University. Jim has worked as a
story analyst at MGM/UA and has worked for Paramount, Orion, 20th
Century Fox, Columbia/Sony, Universal and Disney. He has held positions
as director of acquisitions for Fox, story editor for John Davis
Productions and vice president of production for Freddie Fields
Productions, where he oversaw the development of the feature film
Glory. He has developed film projects for Walt Disney Pictures,
Polygram Entertainment, Propaganda Films and the Image Organization,
in partnerships with Avnet/Kerner, Allagash Films and Partisan U.S.A.
STEPHANIE MOORE
Coordinator, UCLA School of Film & Television Professional
Program in Screenwriting
Email: stmoore@tft.ucla.edu
Stephanie Moore has coordinated the graduate level UCLA Professional
Program in Screenwriting since its inception eight years ago. She
is a graduate of UCLA's MFA Screenwriting Program and won the Harve
Bennett Written By prize in screenwriting and the Harmony Gold screenwriting
award. Her Wonderful World of Disney movie Life-Size aired in March
2000 on ABC. Stephanie is currently completing a sequel, Life-Size
2. Stephanie teaches in the certificate screenwriting program at
UCI Extension and also teaches screenwriting online for the UCLA
Professional Programs. She is the coordinator of the UCLA in Sacramento
Professional Screenwriting Program featuring guest screenwriting
professors from UCLA.
DEVORAH CUTLER-RUBENSTEIN
Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Lecturer
Website: http://www.thescriptbroker.com/services.html
Devorah Cutler-Rubenstein has participated in every aspect of motion
picture development, production and distribution during 26 years
of experience. After graduating from Cal Arts Film School, she assisted
Jerome M. Zeitman at 20th Century-Fox. She has held executive positions
including Director of Literary Acquisitions for Mona Moore &
Associates, Director of the Story Department for Marble Arch Productions,
Director of Literary Affairs for Columbia Pictures Television and
Vice-President, Promotion and Marketing for Connoisseur Video. She
has extensive creative and business relationships with acquisitions
executives at major and minor distribution companies, including
Dreamworks SKG, Miramax Films, Columbia-TriStar Motion Picture Company,
Twentieth Century Fox-Searchlight, TNT, USA Films, and HBO. She
travels the world lecturing and teaching.
BRAD SCHREIBER
VP of Storytech Literary Consulting, Author, Columnist, Screenwriting
Instructor
Website:
www.brashcyber.com
Brad Schreiber works with Chris
Vogler (The Writer’s
Journey) and has worked as a writer, executive and critic. He
has sold and optioned screenplays and won awards from the Edward
Albee Foundation, California Writers Club and National Audio Theatre
Festivals. His books include the best-selling Guinness Book parody
Weird Wonders and Bizarre Blunders and the non-fiction book Death
in Paradise. Schreiber writes the development hell media and politics
column in L.A. weekly newspaper Entertainment Today, as well as
arts journalism for Daily Variety and dramatic criticism for Back
Stage West. National credits include entertainment industry magazines
Script and Written By: The WGA Journal. He has worked as a writer
and development exec for L.A. PBS affiliate KCET-TV as well as director
of development for TV/Film director Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused,
NBC's E.R.). Schreiber has taught story analysis at the American
Film Institute. He teaches writing humorous fiction and non-fiction
at UCLA Extension and screenwriting at Columbia College at CBS Studio
City. His book What Are You Laughing At?: How to Write Funny Screenplays,
Stories and More was published December, 2003 by Michael Wiese Productions.
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