
Omaha Film Festival 2009
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Writer's Workshop at Central Community College Hastings
Lew Hunter will be presenting:
Writing the Great American Screenplay
Saturday October 21, 2006
10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Platte Building, Room 129
Central Community College-Hastings
East Hwy 6, Hastings
Fee: $45 - Includes Lunch
10 a.m. Screenwriting Basics
12 p.m. Lunch Provided
1 p.m. Idea Picking
3:30 p.m. How to Sell/Market
For the Idea Picking time, bring three GREAT ideas for movies expressed in a line or two typed on ONE piece of paper.
These will be presented to the group for their reaction and Lew will give feedback to propel you onto your first or next script. For those who want to become millionaires, Lew will talk about how to market and sell your screenplay.
Watch for Lew's next book: Naked Screenwriting: 22 Academy Award Screenwriters Bare Their Art, Craft, Souls
and Secrets.
Lew Hunter graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1955. He received an MA from Northwestern in 1956 and from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television in 1959.
Lew spent his early career as a Manager and Producer/Writer for Promotion and Advertising for both NBC and ABC TV. He
spent several years in writing, program development, and directing in both the television and motion picture industries. From 1979-1988 he served as a faculty member at UCLA and is now Chairman Emeritus and Professor of Screenwriting. He hosts the
Indian Summer Screenwriting Colony at his home in Superior, Nebraska.
SALLY WALKER will be presenting:
Establishing a Writers' Group Saturday September 30, 2006
11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Platte Building, Room 129
Central Community College-Hastings
East Hwy 6, Hastings
Fee: $35.00 - Includes Lunch
If you would like to meet regularly with other writers
elarn how a writing group can successfully function with only volunteer commitment experience the stimulation and
motivation of sharing your writing with people who understand how to evaluate AND encourage you in your journey toward publication.
Join published author and professional editor Sally Walker as she explains how the Nebraska Writers Workshop has been
going and growing for 21 years with attendees succeeding in poetry, fiction, playwriting and screenwriting. Bring three poems and/or 5-7 double spaced pages of a fiction or properly formatted scripted work-in-progress for a critiquing practice session.
Sally Walker has been a professional writer, editor, and
creative writing instructor since receiving her BFA from the
University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1985. She offers workshops through Omaha's Metropolitan Community College and has taught in other Midwestern cities and at national conferences. She has been an artist-inresidence for the Nebraska Arts Council, as
well as a motivational speaker to area schools and civic organizations. Ms. Walker's published works include the novels Letting Go of Sacred Things, Desert Time, and stories for several adult literacy anthologies. She has also contributed to several magazines as well as published short
stories, professional articles and poetry.

