This summer, Ms. Alessandra will be conducting a series of intensive workshops highlighting her techniques shown on “ON THE PAGE-The DVD”, guiding writers through her proven ten-minute writing tools that take screenwriters and television writers from premise to polish. So far, dates will be as follows:
Las Vegas, NV June 27th
Las Vegas Screen writing Meet Up
http://screenwriters.meetup.com/
Seattle, WA July 12th
Northwest Screenwriter’
http://www.nwsg.org/
Vancouver, BC July 13th
Biz Books (To sign up)
www.bizbooks.net
Boston, MA August (TBD) TBD
New York, NY August (TBD) TBD
“My goal is to take the mystification out of screen writing,” said Ms. Alessandra. “Most people have great ideas but get discouraged or overwhelmed once the writing process begins. I believe if people use the exercises I’ve created, they’ll be able to erase writers block.”
Pilar Alessandra started her creative journey when she worked as Senior Story Analyst for DreamWorks and Radar pictures. She first caught the “teaching bug” as an instructor with the UCLA Writers Program, and created On the Page in 2001. Since then she’s trained numerous writers and story analysts at ABC/Disney, Nickelodeon and MTV and has taught at numerous writing conferences including The American Screen writing Association, The FTX Film and Television Festival and Creative Screen writing Magazine’s Screen writing Expo where she’s an annual “Star Speaker.” Students and clients have sold to Disney, DreamWorks, Warner Brothers and Sony and have won prestigious competitions such as the Open Door Competition, Fade-In Competition and Nicholl Fellowship.
Pilar’s ON THE PAGE PODCAST has listeners as far away as Australia and Scotland and regularly appears in the top 100 of film and television podcasts (http://feeds.feedburner.com/
