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Each session accepts only 25 students. Students are in class or writing ten hours a day, six days a week, for three weeks. Limited scholarships are available. There are three sessions every year.<ref>http://thefilmschool.com/3-week-intensive/</ref> |
Each session accepts only 25 students. Students are in class or writing ten hours a day, six days a week, for three weeks. Limited scholarships are available. There are three sessions every year.<ref>http://thefilmschool.com/3-week-intensive/</ref> |
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==Alumni== |
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Writing and directing duo Bert and Bertie are BAFTA award winners. Their short film “The Taxidermist” played at the 2012 Seattle International Film Festival. Their first feature length film, Lucidity, is set to shoot in 2013. <ref>http://www.bertiefilms.co.uk/creative</ref> |
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Steven Schardt produced two films that were shown at the Sundance Film Festival, [[Humpday]] in 2009, and [[Your Sister’s Sister]] in 2012, which starred Golden Globe winner Emily Blunt. His own film, Treatment, which he wrote and directed was selected to play at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Seattle International Film Festival. <ref>http://thefilmschool.com/why-thefilmschool/alumni-success-stories/</ref> |
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Kristi L. Simkins had her short, Something Special, admitted to Cannes, the Seattle International Film Festival, and won Best Narrative Short at the Rainier Independent Film Festival and a special Jury Selection award at the Lady Filmmakers Film Festival.<ref>http://ladyfilmmaker.com/2010_Award_Winners.php</ref><ref>http://ksimkins.wix.com/something-special</ref> |
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Caleb Slain’s documentary short It Ain’t Over played in the 2012 SXSW Film Festival<ref>http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_FS12539</ref> |
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Sam Graydon worked on two short films that screened in the Seattle International Film festival in 2012. He was the director of photography on Bunker and wrote and directed Pretty Face. [[Gary Busey]] starred in his 2011 short film Jenny, which he wrote and directed.<ref>http://www.siff.net/cinema/detail.aspx?id=45745&FID=261</ref><ref>http://www.siff.net/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=45310&FID=254</ref> <ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076235/</ref> |
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Winda Benedetti’s won Washington State Screenwriting competition in 2006 and was a finalist in 2007. Her short films have been in many festivals, such as One Reel Film Festival and the California Independent Film Festival.<ref>http://thefilmschool.com/why-thefilmschool/alumni-success-stories/</ref> |
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Sue Corcoran’s film Ira Finkelstein’s Christmas, which she co-wrote and directed, was accepted into the Seattle International Film Festival in 2012. It’s cast included [[Elliot Gould]], [[David DeLuise]], Elijah Nelson, and [[Cynthia Geary]]. In 2005 her short film Circus of Infinity screened at the Science Fiction Film Festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival, and the Seattle International Film Festival.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_International_Film_Festival</ref><ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_Fantasy_Short_Film_Festival</ref> |
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Eric Morgret founded the [[Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival]], and where he now serves as a Programming Director.<ref>http://thefilmschool.com/why-thefilmschool/alumni-success-stories/</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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TheFilmSchool [1] is a non-profit film program located in Seattle, WA that focuses on intensive training in screenwriting and directing. TheFilmSchool's mission statement is 'to elevate the art of cinematic storytelling.' The curriculum centers around a heavy emphasis on discipline and craft, character, structure, and working with actors to understand the language of film, all aimed at getting the writer to write simply and from a place of truth. The program was founded in 2004 by actor Tom Skerritt, writer/director John Jacobsen, producer/director Rick Stevenson, writer/director Warren Etheredge and Stewart Stern, screenwriter of Rebel Without a Cause, Sybil and The Ugly American.
TheFilmSchool’s Speaker Series has attracted speakers such as director Sydney Pollack (Tootsie, The Firm, Out of Africa), producer Ed Zwick (Blood Diamond, Traffic, Shakespeare in Love), two-time Sundance winner documentarian Ondi Timoner (DiG!, We Live in Public), Mark Heyman (BlackSwan), and actor/writer/director Peter Riegert (Traffic, Local Hero).[2]
TheFilmSchool launched the Great American Short Screenplay Contest in 2008, in partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival. Christopher McQuarrie, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of The Usual Suspects, called TheFilmSchool "probably the best place in the world to study story.” [3]
Actor Robert Redford joined TheFilmSchool Advisory Board in 2008.[4]
Screenwriting Bootcamp
In addition to monthly lectures and events, TheFilmSchool runs a three week intensive bootcamp that draws a strong focus onto the craft of storytelling in the medium of craft. Classes include:
Where's the Structure? with John Jacobsen
Such a Character with Warren Etheredge
The Play's the Thing with John Jacobsen
On Your Feet with Tom Skerritt
The Storyteller's Conservatory with Rick Stevenson
The Personal Connection with Stewart Stern
Master Speaker Series[5]
Each session accepts only 25 students. Students are in class or writing ten hours a day, six days a week, for three weeks. Limited scholarships are available. There are three sessions every year.[6]
References
- ^ TheFilmSchool.com
- ^ http://thefilmschool.com/programs/speaker-series/
- ^ Seattle Magazine, October 14, 2009
- ^ http://thefilmschool.com/about/advisory-board/
- ^ https://www.beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com/gallery_2012_screen.php
- ^ http://thefilmschool.com/3-week-intensive/