Robert McKee
World acclaimed screenwriting instructor and author, Epiphany introduced Robert and Story to Australian audiences in 2000, producing the seminar in Sydney and Melbourne. Since then he has returned to present the three day Master Class in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2009 and in 2011 (over four days and Sydney only), including Auckland, New Zealand in 2004. EIA also produced the Genre Seminars, The Art Film, Horror, Comedy and Thriller days in Sydney and Melbourne in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 and Thriller, Comedy and Love Story in Melbourne in 2011.
Robert McKee, a Fulbright Scholar, has dedicated the last 30 years to educating and mentoring over 55,000 screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, poets, documentary makers, producers, and directors internationally.
His award winning book 'Story' has been called the "Bible for Screenwriting". Story is translated into over 20 languages.
Robert McKee Alumni have so far earned: 35 Academy Awards (165+ Nominations), 170 Emmy Awards (500+ Nominations), 30 Writers Guild Awards (180+ Nominations), 2 Directors Guild Awards (50+ Nominations), Pulitzer Prizes & Whitbread Prizes.
Robert McKee's website
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Michael Hauge
World leading story consultant, author and lecturer, Michael was in Australia at the invitation of Inscription and Epiphany 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. In a co-production with AFTRS, Epiphany is presenting Advanced Story Mastery: Creating Stories That Sell in March 2012.
Michael Hauge works with individual writers and filmmakers around the world on their screenplays, novels, movies and television scripts. Michael has coached writers, producers, stars and directors on projects for Will Smith, Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lopez, Kirsten Dunst, Charlize Theron, Bradley Cooper and Morgan Freeman.
He is currently on retainer with Will Smith's company, Overbrook Entertainment, where he was involved in the development of The Karate Kid, I Am Legend, Hancock and This Means War.
Michael not only assists with developing your screenplay, but also specializes in teaching you to pitch it successfully, so you can feel confident your script has more than a fighting chance to get read and evaluated for the international market.
Michael has presented seminars and lectures to more than 50,000 participants throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia where he is also a leading story consultant for Screen Australia and Film Victoria.
The new 20th Anniversary of Michael's landmark book 'Writing Screenplays That Sell' was just released in Australia. He is also the author of 'Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds: The Guaranteed Way to Get Your Screenplay or Novel Read', as well as numerous CDs and DVDs including 'The Hero's 2 Journeys' with Christopher Vogler.
Michael Hauge's website
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Steve Kaplan
Epiphany first brought Steve to the attention of the Australian industry in 2007, producing his Comedy Seminars and Performance Workshop in Melbourne and Sydney in August of that year. He has since returned to co-present The Art of Romantic Comedy with Michael Hauge in Sydney and Melbourne in 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).
Steve Kaplan's website
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Joan Scheckel
A filmmaking Instructor from the Sundance Institute, L.A., Epiphany first toured Joan in 2000, producing the 10 day Filmmaker’s Lab, a three day writing workshop and evening masterclasses in Australia and New Zealand and then an encore in 2002.
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.
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Dov Simens
Director of the Hollywood Film Institute, L.A., Epiphany brought Dov over to present 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 sleepy 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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