The Buz Bulletin: Pilar Alessandra Writing Workshop

So, you have it on your list of resolutions again this year don't you? 2007 is going to be the year you finally take that great idea you have for a movie and turn it into the script that will be your first step towards the Oscar stage.

Well, great news! In our never-ending quest to assist you with your noble pursuits, as well as to ensure that we are thought of fondly by you when it is time to cast, we at Biz Books are pleased to announce the presentation of Six Steps to a Screenplay with Pilar Alessandra. Read what some of Pilar?s past students have to say and then check out the details below for how you can become another one of the successful writers using her Six Steps Method.

With a decade of experience working with writers, Pilar quickly uncovers a script's weaknesses while understanding and supporting the writer's individual vision. She is equally adept at sculpting tone, theme and structure as she is dialogue and character arcs. Pilar keeps pace with the fast changing industry, creating a balance between the art of writing and the important commercial business end. She develops neophyte writers as easily as she improves professional writing. Simply put, Pilar makesgetting script notes enjoyable. I have improved my craft tremendously under her tutelage.

1. Laurence Walsh: I took Pilar's Rewrite Class and was completely blown away by her professionalism and incredible insight into the craft of writing! The in-class exercises and film clips that she uses totally crystallize the various techniques that not only fine-tune your draft but serve as lessons that stick with you and make you a better writer overall. Her feedback and comments were invaluable - she forced me to dig deep and find the story that was screaming to be told. Every writer (aspiring, up and coming or established) needs a good coach - and I found that in Pilar. I highly recommend her if you want to take your writing to the next level!

2. Monica Macer: Space is limited to 25 participants so resolve now to be one of them and
make 2007 the year your story gets told!

3. Cat & Bron

WORKSHOP:

Six Steps to a Screenplay: Two Day Writing Intensive with Pilar Alessandra

Saturday, January 6th and Sunday, January 7th, 2007

Pilar Alessandra is a script consultant and director of the popular writing program On The Page. She?s trained writers and story analysts at Nickelodeon, MTV, and ABC/Disney. She's taught at numerous conferences including The ASA Festival, FTX West Conference, Great American Pitch Fest and is an annual Star Speaker at the Los Angeles Screenwriting Expo.

Pilar was a self-described ?movie geek? selling sandwiches out of a cart when she was hired as a script reader by Amblin Entertainment at the age of twenty-five. With the formation of DreamWorks, she became Senior Story Analyst and a reader liaison between the studio and Robert Zemeckis? company, ImageMovers. Work at Interscope Communications then led her to become Senior Story Analyst for Scott Kroopf?s production company, Radar Pictures. She has also read for The Robert Evans Company, Cineville Entertainment, and Saturday Night Live Studios.

Pilar was later bitten by the 'teaching bug' when she began teaching screenwriting and story analysis at UCLA Extension and at Writers Boot Camp. In 2001 she started her own company, 'On the Page,' where she's helped hundreds of writers create, refine and sell their screenplays.

On The Page Script Consultation and Screenwriting Classes provides ongoing classes, workshops and private consultations for screenwriters at all levels. Classes take a 'dig into pages' approach, inspiring students to write or rewrite their stories in a matter of weeks. Students and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks and Warner Bros. and have won prestigious contests such as the Nicholl Fellowship, Open Door and Slamdance Competition.

Open to screenwriters and television writers starting from scratch as well as those with an early draft of a script.

By www.theatrebc.org