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August Seminar with Gordy Hoffman

Join us at the Phoenix Film Center at the Metro Arts Institute on August 11 from 9 - 5pm with a one-hour lunch break at 12:30 for THE BLUECAT WORKSHOP Screenwriting Seminar with Gordy Hoffman.

Do you have a great idea for a movie? Have you started your screenplay, but are unable to finish? Maybe you've written your script, and you're struggling with your rewrite.

Sundance Film Festival Award Winner and BlueCat founder and judge Gordy Hoffman is now conducting live all-day workshops on the art of screenwriting.

Topics will include selecting an idea, finding your creative voice, scripting effective dialogue, compelling character arcs, the rewrite, effective story construction, audience relationship, work habits and discipline, production alternatives, industry awareness and more.

This workshop will focus on answers to all of your screenwriting challenges, cultivating your fresh ideas, as well as encouraging and inspiring your true instincts for storytelling in movies.

Please bring your laptops or pen and paper. We will be writing!

Open to the screenwriters of all levels. Beginners welcome.

BIO OF GORDY HOFFMAN

Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival for LOVE LIZA, Gordy Hoffman made his feature directorial debut with his script, A COAT OF SNOW, which world premiered at the 2005 Locarno Intl Film Festival. A COAT OF SNOW made its North American Premiere at the Arclight in Hollywood, going on to screen at the Milan Film Festival and the historic George Eastman House. Recently, the movie won the 2006 Domani Vision Award at VisionFest, held at the Tribeca Cinemas in NY. Gordy is the founder and judge of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition. He currently teaches screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.