Michael Hauge
World leading story consultant, author and lecturer, Michael was in Australia at the invitation of Inscription and Epiphany co-produced and promoted the Story Mastery one day seminar in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne in May 2008 and The Art of Romantic Comedy with Steve Kaplan in Sydney and Melbourne, June 2010.
Michael Hauge is a world leading story consultant, author and lecturer.
For over 20 years he has worked with screenwriters, editors, producers, novelists and development executives on their various film and literary projects. He is the story consultant and writing coach for Warner Bros., Paramount, Disney, Columbia, New Line, Joel Silver Prods., CBS and Lifetime and works personally with Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, Jennifer Lopez, Val Kilmer and Julia Roberts.
More than 35,000 writers and filmmakers have attended his writing seminars and lectures throughout the world.
Hauge is on the Board of Directors of the American Screenwriters Association and the Advisory Board for Scriptwriter Magazine in London.
His bestselling books 'Writing Screenplays That Sell' - now in its 28th printing for Harper Collins - and 'Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds: The Guaranteed Way to Get Your Screenplay or Novel Read' - have become definitive reference books for the film and television industries, turning Hauge into a recognized screenwriting guru.
During his special, one-day seminar, Michael Hauge presents his unique approach to creating and marketing successful novels and screenplays.
Using clips from recent successful films, as well as hands on exercises and direct feedback to participants, Michael reveals his proven methods for eliciting emotion in your readers through story concept, plot structure, character development and theme.
Michael then reveals his proven method for getting the people in power to read your manuscript or screenplay. Selected participants will also get direct feedback on their story concepts and pitches.
Michael Hauge's website
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Steve Kaplan
Consultant and script doctor to such companies as Dreamworks, HBO, Disney, ABC, NBC, Paramount, Touchstone Television and others, Steve has coached and developed the best writers of American television. Epiphany produced Comedy Seminars and Performance Workshop in Melbourne and Sydney in August 2007 and The Art of Romantic Comedy with Michael Hauge in Sydney and Melbourne, June 2010.
For the past 15 years, Steve Kaplan has coached and developed the best writers of American television - Sex and the City, Seinfeld, Big Love, Ugly Betty, Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Larry Sanders Show - and the industry's top stars such as Jack Black, Nathan Lane and Nia Vardalos.
He regularly serves as a consultant and script doctor to such companies as Dreamworks, HBO, Disney, ABC, NBC, Paramount, Touchstone Television and others.
He created the HBO Workspace and the HBO New Writers Project, discovering HBO Pictures screenwriter Will Scheffer (Big Love) and introducing and developing performers such as Kathy Griffin (Ugly Betty), Bob Odenkirk (Mr Show, Saturday Night Live), David Cross (Arrested Development) and Josh Malina (The West Wing). Kaplan was Executive Producer for the critically acclaimed HBO Original Programming documentary Drop Dead Gorgeous and developed and directed one woman shows in regional theatres and Off-Broadway with Nora Dunn (Saturday Night Live), Lauren Tom (Grey's Anatomy) and Sandra Tsing Loh (Aliens in America), amongst many others.
In addition to having taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale and other top universities, Steve was co-founder and Artistic Director of New York's Manhattan Punch Line Theatre, where from between 1979 to 1992 he developed writers such as Mark O'Donnell (Hairspray), Peter Tolan (Analyze This), David Crane (Friends), Tracy Poust (Ugly Betty, Will & Grace), Michael Patrick King (Sex in the City), David Ives (All In The Timing), Kenneth Lonegan (You Can Count On Me), and coached such performers as Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King), Oliver Platt (The West Wing), Veanne Cox (Erin Brokovich), Sam McMurray (Raising Arizona), Vickie Lewis (Finding Nemo) and Illeana Douglas (Rockett, Six Feet Under).
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Robert McKee
World acclaimed screenwriting instructor and author. Epiphany produced Story Seminar in Sydney and Melbourne in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2009, including Auckland, New Zealand in 2004. And, The Art Film, Horror, Comedy and Thriller Seminars in Sydney and Melbourne in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004.
Author, Screenwriter, Script Editor, Instructor, Robert McKee is the most widely respected and celebrated screenwriting instructor in the world today. For 20 years, McKee's Story Seminar has been the world's ultimate story class - virtually a career imperative - for everyone who creates, evaluates, interprets and sells stories.
A Fulbright Scholar, he is the author of the award winning bestseller, 'STORY - Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting'. His Story Seminar draws sell out houses all over the world and he is a project consultant to network television producers and major Hollywood film studios. Paramount annually purchases this course for their entire development staff.
His former students' accomplishments are unmatched: They have won 32 Academy Awards, 158 Emmy Awards, 21 Writers Guild of America Awards, and 17 Directors Guild of America Awards. Past students include Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings trilogy), Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich), William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo) amongst thousands of others, from first time writers right through to Hollywood's A-list filmmakers and screenwriters.
"The most important thing is that until you have actually made a conscious effort to study the craft, you are never free. The big misunderstanding here is the belief that if I just work on inspiration, I'm free. The opposite is true. When you're working on inspiration alone, you're a slave to habit and you're not aware of it. When you master the craft, it becomes a liberation not an inhibition."
"The foundation of what I teach is what I want, is for writers to be free. To be genuinely original and fresh and make it work for the audience is to master the craft. There's a reason Picasso was Picasso... His early paintings look like Flemish masterpieces. By his early 20s, he'd mastered everything... he summed up his whole life as 'the struggle against my overwhelming capacity to draw'. You need complete command of the materials in front of you and then you're free. I want my students to become Picassolike, to say so much with one little line and image."
Robert McKee quotes from The Age article July 4, 2000
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Joan Scheckel
Filmmaking Instructor from the Sundance Institute, L.A.
Epiphany produced 10-day Filmmaker’s Lab, 3 x day writing workshop and evening masterclasses in Australia and New Zealand in 2000, 2001, 2003.
Actor, Director, Writer, Film Coach Joan Scheckel, America's revolutionary writing, directing, and acting instructor, is acclaimed throughout the independent filmmaking community as a visionary master of film craft. Her edgy, groundbreaking work has gained such international respect as to earn her a place alongside the great dramatic teachers.
In the past 7 years alone, Joan has intensively coached the development of over 150 features and shorts. The labs explore every aspect of film craft from visual style to performance and are open to directors, writers, actors, producers, editors, and cinematographers.
The labs include exercises, acting craft and hands on scene work with actors. They provide a forum to develop practical tools and deepen creative investigation. Joan doesn't teach a formula, rather she works with an artist to think more daringly, more creatively about what it is they do to release their individual voice and style. |
Dov Simens
Director of the Hollywood Film Institute, L.A. Epiphany produced The Hollywood 2-Day Film School Seminars on independent filmmaking/producing in Sydney and Melbourne in 1999, 2001, 2003.
Dov Simens graduated from Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania in 1965 with a BA in Economics. After graduating, he spent 3 years in the Army as a 1st Lieutenant in the Special Forces and opened a bookstore in the sleep coastal town of Carmel on the Central Californian Coast. In 1980, he sold the bookstore, took the cash and went to Hollywood with the dream of becoming a filmmaker. He chased the deal, calling agents, meeting studio heads, pitching development executives, got foreign buyers and learnt how to attract Hollywood stars. Over the next five years, he held jobs from Production Manager to Line Producer, perfecting his knowledge of the filmmaking process (or, as Dov says, "Writing checks") making movie after movie after movie… but for other companies.
In 1986, Dov was invited to teach a filmmaking class at UCLA on 'How to Produce High Quality Films on Low Budgets' and the word got around. He refined the course into the 2-Day Film School and took it on the road to tremendous response and success. He now teaches around the world, travelling from LA to NY to London, Paris, Sydney, Vancouver, Toronto and all points in between.
Dov's 2-Day Film School pulls no punches. Stalking the stage, voice rising, Dov gives you the most amount of filmmaking information, for the least amount of money, in the shortest period of time.
There's a reason over 25,000 students have taken Dov's 2-day course, and why everyone from Quentin Tarantino to Guy Richie to Spike Lee sing his praises. Dov makes his position very clear: "During the past 18 years, I have taught how to produce, write or direct with amazing success. Graduates of my course, to date, have grossed over $2 billion. I have perfected my craft and am proud of my ability as a teacher. I do not present myself as a great producer or a great director. Generally speaking, great producers and directors are not great teachers. So that's what I am - the teacher who will give you the information and demystify the whole producing process.
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