[Cwgrad-announcements] The Tomas Rivera 22nd Annual Conference - and a possible extra credit opportunity for your students!

[rrussin at ucr.edu]

Please let students know about this event, and how to sign up.


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>Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:47:59 -0700
>From: Brian Marcelo <brianmarcelo at gmail.com>  
>Subject: The Tomas Rivera 22nd Annual Conference - and a possible extra credit  opportunity for your students!  
>To: robin.russin at ucr.edu
>Cc: Juan Felipe Herrera <juanfherrera at mac.com>
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>   Professor Russin,
>
>   My name is Brian Marcelo and I’m an undergraduate
>   at UCR, majoring in Creative Writing. I am promoting
>   the Tomas Rivera 22nd Annual Conference 2009, which
>   is being held Friday, April 24th, 2009 on the UCR
>   Campus. This email focuses on the free screenwriting
>   workshops that will be offered during the
>   conference, conducted by Ligiah Villalobos. There is
>   limited seating, so registration for the event is
>   extremely important.
>
>   This is a great opportunity for any students you
>   have that are interested in writing. Perhaps you can
>   bring this up in class and offer them extra credit
>   for attending, either by having them write about the
>   experience or even show off a piece of work in
>   relation to the skills they picked up from the
>   screenwriting class.
>
>   I recently went to the J.F. Lawton screenwriting two
>   day workshop, which I know that you attended, and I
>   feel this would be an equally great experience
>   considering that it is from another accomplished
>   screenwriter. It would also be of great value for
>   students to see the different aspects of
>   screenwriting, especially from a female and minority
>   point of view.
>
>   People can register either at
>   http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/TomasRiveraConference/registration.html
>
>   Or, they can register with me via email. I will need
>   the following:
>
>   Name:
>
>   Address:
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>   City:
>
>   State:
>
>   Zip Code:
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>   Email:
>
>   Phone:
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>    
>
>   Let me know what you’re registering for: the
>   television workshop, the screenplay workshop, both
>   of the workshops, and/or other events during the
>   conference, such as the viewing of photographs of
>   Tomas Rivera or the screening for Under the Same
>   Moon, for example.
>
>    
>
>   These are the workshop times:
>
>   1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Television Workshop @ HMNSS
>   1500
>
>   Ligiah will go over the structure and formatting of
>   a half hour sitcom and a one hour drama.
>   Participants will learn the basic rules that apply
>   to each of these formats, including how storylines
>   go from an idea, to an outline to a script.
>
>   2:45 PM – 4:15 PM: Screenplay Workshop @ HMNS 1500
>
>   Ligiah will examine the 3-Act structure and
>   formatting of a full length screenplay, and how it
>   applied to her own film, “La Misma Luna” (or to
>   a popular film). She will also go through some
>   simple steps that will help writers go from a Beat
>   Sheet, to an outline, to a full length screenplay.
>
>    
>
>   LIGIAH VILLALOBOS is the Writer/Executive Producer
>   of the feature film Under the Same Moon, (La Misma
>   Luna).  The film was an Official Selection at the
>   2007 Sundance Film Festival and became the highest
>   sale for a Spanish-language film in the history of
>   Sundance.  Since its release on March 19, 2008 by
>   Fox Searchlight and The Weinstein Company, the film
>   has become the 3rd highest grossing Mexican film and
>   the 6th highest grossing Spanish-language film in
>   the U.S., of all time.
>
>   In addition to Under the Same Moon, she has also
>   held several positions at various studios,
>   including: director of programming for Buena Vista
>   Productions, overseeing Disney television
>   development and production in Latin America,
>   overseeing Walt Disney’s Writing Fellowship
>   Program and Director’s Training Program for
>   Minorities and Women, director of current
>   programming for the WB Network, serving as a staff
>   writer for the NBC television series Ed, and serving
>   as head writer for Nickelodeon’s Go, Diego! Go!
>
>    
>
>   Brian Marcelo
>
>   brianmarcelo at gmail.com
>
>   408-966-2436
>
>   Undergraduate Tomas Rivera Fellow
>
>   http://www.creativewriting.ucr.edu/TomasRiveraConference/index.html