On Story - Screenwriters and Their Craft - Softcover

Austin Film Festival

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0292754604 ISBN 13: 9780292754607

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2013

Synopsis

Austin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization of its kind to focus on the writer's creative contribution to film. Its annual Film Festival and Conference offers screenings, panels, workshops, and roundtable discussions that help new writers and filmmakers connect with mentors and gain advice and insight from masters, as well as refreshing veterans with new ideas. To extend the Festival's reach, AFF produces On Story, a television series currently airing on PBS-affiliated stations and streaming online that presents footage of high-caliber artists talking candidly and provocatively about the art and craft of screenwriting and filmmaking, often using examples from their own films. This book distills the advice of renowned, award-winning screenwriters who have appeared on On Story, including John Lee Hancock, Peter Hedges, Lawrence Kasdan, Whit Stillman, Robin Swicord, and Randall Wallace. In their own lively words and stories transcribed from interviews and panel discussions, they cover the entire development of a screenplay, from inspiration, story, process, structure, characters, and dialogue to rewriting and collaboration. Their advice is fresh, practical, and proven - these writers know how to tell a story on screen. Enjoy this collection of ideas and use it to jumpstart your own screenwriting career.

About this title

Review:

"On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime’s worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages." Author: Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Barbara Morgan cofounded the Austin Film Festival in 1993 and has served as the sole executive director since 1999. She developed and produces the TV and radio series Austin Film Festival’s On Story, currently airing on PBS stations nationally as well as on Public Radio International. She also coedited the previous volumes of On Story.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0292754604
• ISBN 13: 9780292754607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Morgan Barbara, Perez Maya