[Cwgrad-announcements] To screenwriting students

[Robin Russin]

This went out to UCLA students, but maybe with an intro from Stu you  
UCR types can take a crack at it--


I am a student in the graduate producing program at USC and am  
currently seeking a feature script to option for my thesis project.   
I was wondering if you could forward on the following blurb to your  
graduate and undergraduate writing students?  Thank you so much for  
your help!

Cheers,
Lindsey

I am a graduate producing student at USC and seeing as this is the  
final year of the program, it is time to begin my thesis project.   
Our thesis is a chance for us to option a script and work through all  
the stages of developing that project and preparing it to be taken to  
the marketplace upon our graduation.  This would be an opportunity  
for us both to gain collaborative experience and build our knowledge  
of the process to prepare us for our future projects.

Here's the basic idea of what I am looking for.  A script that is of  
"indie" level such that it will be a stepping stone for us into the  
industry.  My sensibilities lean towards the genres of family films  
and romantic comedies; however, I am not one to shy away from any  
story whether light in tone or from darkest depths of your mind.   
While this outlines the type of script I am looking for, I really  
want this to be as valuable an experience for both of us as  
possible.  This should extend to experience with contracts, notes,  
and general creative meetings.  We will be in the trenches together  
preparing ourselves to head into the real world and hopefully this  
project can be used for that transition.  After all, we are just  
beginning our journeys into this industry and this is a time for us  
to truly learn what we got ourselves into.

If you are interested in meeting to chat or want to discuss your  
possible ideas please feel free to call or email me.  Or if you have  
a completed project send it my way and I will get back to you after I  
read it.

Thanks for your time and maybe soon we will spend more of it together.

Lindsey Rostal

USC Peter Stark Producing Program, Class of 2008
503.720.7851
lindsey.rostal at gmail.com

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Robin Russin
Assistant Professor
Department of Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
(951) 827-2707
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robin.russin at ucr.edu



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