Ken Rotcop, Founder of Pitchmart, to Return to Scottsdale Screenwriting Conference

Screenwriting Expert Returns with Chairman of UCLA’s Legendary Film School for the 2^nd Scottsdale Screenwriters’ Conference

Our new friend and mentor, Ken Rotcop, returns in the fall with one of the top ten screenwriting instructors in the industry for a can’t miss session.  Join us!  IFP Phoenix Members receive a discount.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – August 16,  2010 After a successful inaugural event last spring,  it’s the return of the Scottsdale Screenwriting Conference, the Valley’s premiere resource for educating, inspiring and connecting all screenwriters with “the Biz” returns Saturday, November 6 at the Gainey Suites Hotel. This intensive, information-packed  popular conference is for aspiring writers as well as established screenwriters interested in either film or television.

The conference features Ken Rotcop, former creative head of four film studios (Embassy Pictures, Hanna-Barbera, Trans-World Productions, and Cannon Films), winner of the Writer’s Guild Award and the Neil Simon Award, founder of Pitchmart (as featured on Oprah), and author of the best-selling The Perfect Pitch, will speak at the one-day Scottsdale Screenwriting Conference. Rotcop is one of Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters and screenwriting teachers and he is the Grand master at teaching writers how to pitch.  He has supervised production for such celebrated films as The Graduate, Lion in Winter, Carnal Knowledge and Charlotte’s Web.

Joining Rotcop will be Richard Walter, a celebrated storytelling guru, movie industry expert, novelist, screenwriter, and longtime chairman and professor of UCLA’s graduate program in screenwriting. Walter lectures throughout the world and is also the author of ESSENTIALS OF SCREENWRITING: The Art, Craft and Business of Film and Television Writing.

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Walter will summarize the three basic coveted principles that they embrace at UCLA that explain the astonishing success of his students in winning assignments writing the big Hollywood pictures and no small number of he prestigious independent productions as well. Students from Walter’s UCLA program have written more than ten projects for Steven Spielberg alone, plus recent indie Oscar winners such as Milk and Sideways. He’ll also analyze up close a handful of the first two pages submitted by writers at the event. He will look at them cold, the way readers do who read for executives and agents, in order to replicate that experience.

Rotcop will focus on screenwriting instruction, techniques and tricks of the trade required to sell a movie, the inner workings of Hollywood, the art of the pitch, plus much more.

Ken Rotcop’s “Pitchmart” workshop in Los Angeles, guarantees attendees the opportunity to sit one-on-one with 25 literary agents, studio executives, and producers to pitch their own material. Pitchmart is open to anyone who attends the Scottsdale Screenwriting Conference in Arizona.

Attendees who register by September 30, 2010 are eligible for a discounted ticket price of $149 for the conference (includes lunch.) After that, tickets cost $175 for the conference (includes lunch.) Seating is limited.

The host hotel is Gainey Suites Hotel, located at 7300 East Gainey Suites Drive, Scottsdale, AZ.

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