Beyond Words - WGA and Academy Award Nominees Panel

This panel sells out quickly every year!  Grab your ticket!  At 20 bucks, it's a steal.

http://www.wgfoundation.org/noms.aspx

The description is plain, yet the panel is anything but.  To give you an idea, Judd Apatow was the most recent moderator.

From the WGA:
"Beyond Words features the WGA and Academy award nominees for original and adapted screenplays. This is a moderated panel discussion held at the Writers Guild Theater just before the award shows in the spring. Dessert reception to follow. Beyond Words is co-presented by the Writers Guild Foundation and Writers Guild of Amerca West. Special support is provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."

Ticket info:
At the Writers Guild Theater - 135 S. Doheny Dr., Beverly Hills
Tickets:
$20 (plus $1.99 fee) - General
$15 (plus $1.99 fee) - WGA & ATAS members with valid ID
$10 (plus $1.99 fee) - Student with DATED CURRENT ID
Prices do not include online booking fee. Prices increase at the door ($25, 20, 15).
NO REFUND, NO TRANSFER. SALES END 2:30 DAY OF EVENT (IF NOT PREVIOUSLY SOLD OUT).

Launch Party Pen Densham's Riding the Alligator - Strategies for a Career in Screenplay Writing

WHERE: Writers Store
       3510 West Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA
WHEN: January 13, 7:00pm-10:00pm

Celebrate the release of award-winning producer/writer/director and USC adjunct professor Pen Densham’s new book, Riding the Alligator: Strategies for a Career in Screenplay Writing (And Not Getting Eaten), at The Writers Store on Thursday January 13, 2011.

Hollywood bigwigs from Ron Howard to Jeff Bridges to Paul Haggis are extolling the many virtues of Pen’s thoughtful screenwriting guide, which explores specific writing techniques while simultaneously imparting industry-tested strategies for carving a successful, long-term career.

Pen will sign books and discuss creative philosophies and professional secrets, plus insights from his company, Trilogy Entertainment Group.

This event is FREE, but you must RSVP to attend via the Facebook or by calling The Writers Store directly (310) 441-5151.  Read more about Pen's book at www.RidingTheAlligator.com.

Get a Quick Dose of Theater

Check out these One-Minute Plays by many great playwrights including Junction writer Larissa FastHorse at...
East LA Rep

Saturday, December 11 & Sunday, December 12
Time
All shows at 8:00 pm
Admission - $15
Tickets available at the door, but RSVPs appeciated.
http://oneminuteplays.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/tickets-on-sale-for-the-la-one-minute-play-festival/

Member Happy Hour

Junction Function:

MEMBERS ONLY HAPPY HOUR 

Have a drink and hang an ornament on our tree!

THIS WEDNESDAY 

December 1

5pm-8pm

We've gone too long without a Junction Members Only happy hour.  The time has come.  Beat the post-Thanksgiving, 5-day-workweek blues with tree trimming at The Junction!

Meet a member you never even knew you didn't even know.

Cheers

New Date for Paul Attanasio at USC => Dec. 1, 2010

Please come join M.G. Lord's USC Masters of Professional Writing (science-writing) class as she will be hosting:

Film and TV writer Paul Attanasio!

NEW DATE: Dec. 1!!! - Paul Attanasio (Oscar-nominated for Quiz Show, Executive Producer of House)

PAUL ATTANASIO TO VISIT:

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 @ 7:00PM

New Location!!: Taper Hall (THH) 102

Free and Open to the Public

Please RSVP to mpw@college.usc.edu

Aspiring Journalists! Master Class in Narrative Journalism

Writers Junction Member Mike Kessler is teaching the following class toward a Certificate in Journalism at UCLA Extension January 11, 2010 - March 8, 2010:

Master Class in Narrative Journalism: Turning Facts into Stories

Call it what you like--narrative journalism, literary journalism, New Journalism--it all means the same thing: riveting, character-driven articles about the issues, pitfalls, and victories that affect individuals, groups, and sometimes the world. That can mean a death-row knuckle-clencher, a profile of the neighborhood grandma, or a curtain-raiser about a government department awash with corruption--and you can write about any of these once you acquire the right tools and understanding of the form. Because powerful narrative journalism requires multiple revisions, you spend nine weeks reporting, writing, and revising just two articles, with the goal of making at least one of them ready for publication in a newspaper, magazine, journal, or website. Along the way, you deconstruct great works of narrative journalism, learn how to identify and develop story-worthy characters; optimize reporter-subject relationships; develop characters; recognize and humanize complicated topics and themes; employ structure and pacing; and write clearly, using one's own voice. Includes guest lectures from accomplished journalists. Prerequisite: Proficiency in college-level writing. X 432 Reporting and Writing I recommended, but not required. Elective course in toward Certificates in Journalism. 
https://www.uclaextension.edu/r/Course.aspx?reg=W1732

UCLA: 154 Dodd Hall 

Tuesday, 7-10pm, 

January 11 - March 8 

9 meetings total

Science & the Screenplay - Two Great Free Lectures at USC

Learn from Michael Tolkin (THE PLAYER, DEEP IMPACT) & Paul Attanasio (QUIZ SHOW, DONNIE BRASCO) for FREE!  Visit MG Lord's Masters of Professional Writing science-writing class for discussion and Q&A into the art and craft of writing science.

From the USC Masters of Writing Program:

Michael L. Tolkin has written numerous screenplays, including The Player (1992), which he adapted from his 1988 book by the same name, and for which he received the 1993 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. A follow-up book, Return of the Player, was published in 2006. For M. G. Lord's science class, he will discuss his screenplay for Deep Impact (1998)--and the real science about asteroids that went into it.

MICHAEL TOLKIN TO VISIT:

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 @ 7:00PM

Taper Hall (THH) 102

Free and Open to the Public

 

AND

 

NEW DATE: Dec. 1!!! - Paul Attanasio (Oscar-nominated for Quiz Show, Executive Producer of House)

PAUL ATTANASIO TO VISIT:

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 @ 7:00PM

New Location!!: Taper Hall (THH) 102

Free and Open to the Public