Willamette Writers Screenwriter’s Happy Hour: Meet Sara Cooper Please join us at the FilmLab Screenwriter’s Happy Hour on Wednesday, May 8, 2024 from 5:00 to 6:00 pm, PST. The Zoom Room opens at 5PM. The registration link is below. About Sara Cooper SARA COOPER is an A-List television writer/producer, who’s been working in television and…
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Online: Screenwriter’s Happy Hour: Practice Your Pitching
Willamette Writers Screenwriter’s Happy Hour: Practice Your Pitching! This April’s Screenwriters Happy Hour is all about pitching your series or TV movie ideas. If you’re planning to pitch to an agent or producer at the upcoming conference, this is an opportunity to get some valuable practice beforehand. You’ll be pitching to, and getting feedback from,…
Online: Randall Jahnson on Rookie Screenwriting Mistakes
Join us at this month’s Screenwriter’s Happy Hour to discuss rookie screenwriting mistakes. Welcome back, screenwriters! For this month’s Screenwriter’s Happy Hour, we are happy to welcome Randall Jahnson to talk with us about Rookie Screenwriting Mistakes. Randall Jahnson is a freelance screenwriter, film director, and teacher active in a variety of media. Feature credits…
Experts Weigh In: 10 Crucial Screenwriting Mistakes
Experts Weigh In: 10 Crucial Screenwriting Mistakes Lee Jessup, a member of our screenwriting faculty at the upcoming Willamette Writer’s Conference and the author of Breaking In: Tales from the Screenwriting Trenches and Getting It Write: An Insider’s Guide To A Screenwriting Career shares how to avoid ten screenwriting mistakes. You can find this post and others…
FiLMLaB Heads To The Portland Film Festival
In case you missed it, FiLMLaB debuted its 2016 short film, INTERCEPT, at the Willamette Writers Conference earlier this month. We were pleased to have good turn out and an enthusiastic Q & A with the audience. But if you couldn’t make it to the debut, fear not, because this week FiLMLaB heads to the…
FiLMLaB Grand Prize Winner Announced!
Last week our four finalists consulted with screenwriting mentor and 2016 FiLMLaB Director, Randall Jahnson, before diving into an optional script rewrite; a chance to improve their original seven page script with notes from our Celebrity Judges. By Thursday night, all of the revised scripts were in and ready to review by our Producers Circle,…
2016 FiLMLaB Semifinalists
Another round of reading and script evaluation has been completed! A new set of judges have weighed in to determine which scripts will advance to the next round. Without further ado, we are happy to announce the 2016 FiLMLaB Semifinalists: DARLIN COMMIT ME, by Douglas Boom FRAME OF MIND, by Shaun Radecki OBJECT OF AFFECTION,…
Randall Jahnson To Direct 2016 FiLMLaB
The FiLMLaB Experiment 2016
“At FiLMLaB, the experiment is you.” No, really. We mean it. The FiLMLaB experiment 2016 is all about you, the writer, and what happens when you step into the lab. It is not easy being the subject of an experiment. Nor is it any fun having limitations placed on your creativity: seven pages, four characters, and…
FiLMLaB Directors Panel Q & A
Join us at the Post 5 Theater on Saturday, March 5th for our FiLMLaB Directors Panel. Free to Willamette Writers members ($10 non-member paid at the door) this event features all of our FiLMLaB directors from the past four years and a chance to have your questions answered! Join these three directors: Christopher Alley of Ampersand…