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Screenwriting Seminar Coming Soon

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Screenwriting Seminar Coming Soon

Screenwriting Seminar Coming Soon

Screenwriting Seminar Coming Soon

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Ron Osborn, veteran screenwriter, screenwriting teacher and seminar speaker will be presenting 10 hour "Writing Screenplays that Sell" 


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Leo W. Sears, CFEE

Screenwriting Seminar Coming Soon

Leo W. Sears, CFEE

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Owner of LWS Entertainment

Certified Festival & Event Executive

Founder and Executive Director of Big Island Film Festival 2006-2016

www.bigislandfilmfestival.com

Pending

Screenwriting Seminar Coming Soon

Leo W. Sears, CFEE

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Production company considering my screenplay "Peril in Paradise" to be shot in Mauritius.

Writing Screenplays That Sell

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Specifics

A ten hour screenwriting workshop to be held October 3 ( 9 - 4) and October 4 (10:30 - 1:30) at Adventureland Resort Hotel.  Ron will use his real life experiences, movie clips and expertise to inform, entertain and provide you with the basics of writing screenplays that sell.

AS OF TUESDAY MORN NO REGISTRATIONS.  THEREFORE, YOU MUST SIGN UP BY 5 PM WED OCT 1.  IF WE DON'T HAVE REGISTRANTS, THE WORKSHOP WILL BE CANCELED.

Key Points of Workshop

Oct. 3

1)  Thinking Like A Writer/The Current Business Climate

2)  The Essential Needs of a Narrative

3)  3-Act Structure

4)  Theme

5)  Scenes and Sequences

6)  Character

7)  Dialogue


October 4:  Building a Story From Scratch


 Wherein using what we covered the day before, we see how it works together by taking a one-line idea and building a story in real time with a protagonist, antagonist, story arc, character arc, three acts, all unified under an overarching theme. 

Ron's Current Biography

  

A writer/writer-producer/show runner over the course of 40 years, Ron began in half-hour comedies such as “MORK & MINDY” and “NIGHT COURT,” went on to write and produce hour-long comedies for three seasons of “MOONLIGHTING” (4 Emmy nominations, a Writers Guild Award Nomination, a Humanitas nomination), CUPID, and SHE SPIES; hour-long drama with “THE WEST WING” (Emmy nomination, Writers Guild Award nomination), BEAUTY AND THE BEAST; and in animation co-developed, exec-produced, and was co-head writer on the half-hour adult series “DUCKMAN” (3 Emmy nominations, 3 Cable Ace Nominations, winner Best Animated Show, Banff International TV Festival). He has sold 30 pilots, both half-hour and hour, comedy and drama, live action and animation, to all major broadcast networks, basic cable networks FX, USA, MTV, Lifetime, ABC Family and Disney, and premium cable networks Showtime and HBO. His horror ensemble HEARTLAND has been optioned twice as a series and web series.

During this time he also wrote feature originals including “MEET JOE BLACK” for Universal, and performed rewrites on such films as “THE FLINTSTONES,” also for Universal “THE HARD WAY” for director John Badham, and “RADIOLAND MURDERS” for George Lucas. His spec feature thriller ECHO, action adventure DIVINE RETRIBUTION, and horror GOD FORSAKEN have been optioned multiple times, and he is currently developing the animated adult cop comedy “DICK PROFANE” for Bruce Willis, rebooting DUCKMAN with Jason Alexander, and has three feature spec scripts currently in the marketplace.  Over 30 pilots sold or commissioned. Ron has taught screenwriting and advanced screenwriting at Art Center/College of Design since 1986, writing for animation at California State University of Long Beach since 2018, screenwriting and visual literacy at Dreamworks Animation (2008-11), and has given screenwriting seminars as far afield as Australia and India. 

Special Hotel Rates

For those of you coming from out of town Adventureland Resort Hotel, Altoona, IA offers special rate of 129 + taxes per night for workshop participants.

Covid Restrictions

Masks will be required for all participants and social distancing will be in effect . Additionally temperatures will be taken at registration. 

Cost

The cost of this ten-hour  screenwriting workshop "Writing Screenplays That Sell"

is $300 incl tax.  On the day of the workshop.... assuming there is space... is $350 payable by check or cash only.

Registration & Information

For registration https://checkout.square.site/pay/64d4e8f308c84d77bdb69dcbe7265868 For information email info@LWSEntertainment.com or call 808-557-5200.

Big Island Film Festival

Big Island Film Festival

Big Island Film Festival

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Big Island Film Festival took place on the Waikoloa Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii from 2006 to 2016.  It showed 48 to 65 features and shorts from around the world during the four days of the festival.  Not only did BIFF show films but also had celebrities each year from John Saxon to Tom Berenger to Kate McKinnon  to Will Estes.  Additionally there were major social events, awards and screenwriting workshops.BIFF was covered by Variety and recognized by Moviemaker magazine as onf "20 Film Festivals Worth the Money"  and later as One of the "20 Coolest Film Festivals".  It also was awarded by Foriegn Film Critics Association.  BIFF partnered with The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii and was a major event  on the Island of Hawaii.  bigislandfilmfestival.com.

Brief Bio of Leo W Sears

Big Island Film Festival

Big Island Film Festival

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Born and raised in Kansas.  Vietnam-Era Marine with two Purple Hearts.   Bachelor of Ed with degree in Communication Arts from Arizona State University 1985.  While at ASU participated in theater, ASASU Student Senate, President of Vets Club.  Who's Who Among American Colleges and Universities 1975-76.   Taught for Glendale High School District, Arizona from 1976 to 2001.  Taught theater, speech, English.  Corporate Secretary of Phoenix Jaycess, 1981.  Vice President (entertainment) of 1982 Jaycee National Convention.  Owned and operated Metro Playhouse theater company from 1983 to 1992.   Produced 90 plays and directed 65 plays in high school, community and dinner theater.  Wrote four comedy plays (three with the late Jack Sharkey) which have been produced across the US and the world.  These plays are available through Concord Theatricals.  When retired from teaching moved to Hawaii in 2001, where he created, owned and was Executive Director of Big Island Film Festival from 2006 until 2016.  When his wife of 44 years Jan passed away in 2016 he folded the festival and moved to Iowa where his son Jeff, Jeff's husband Aaron and grandson Eli live.  Now has remarried to Pauline and lives in Ankeny, Iowa.

Leo's Stage Plays available from Concord Theatricals

Leo's Stage Plays available from Concord Theatricals

Leo's Stage Plays available from Concord Theatricals

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  • Sorry! Wrong Chimney!  Comedy/3f 4m/Interior set/Co-written with the late Jack Sharkey

David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can  buy his wife a fur for Christmas. He tells her he’s working late at the  office, but she finds out he isn’t at the office. A suspected other  woman, hypnotism, the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his  gun-toting fiancée, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale  that is hilarious Christmas entertainment any time of year. 


This play has been produced across the US, Canada as well as London, Australia, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sri Lanka.


  • Borderline Crazies - Comedy/3m,3f/Interior Set

 Ellen hopes to ski and put some spark into her dull marriage to Stu, an  efficiency author, while at Lake Tahoe in a rustic cabin owned by Stu's  publisher. They are startled when a horror author and his sexy wife also  arrive at the apparently double-booked cabin. The women immediately  bond but the men squabble like spoiled two-year-olds and devise several  wagers to determine who stays and who goes. Before anyone can leave, a  police officer reports that a snowstorm has closed the roads and an axe  murderer is on the loose. Stranded with no phone, no television and no  radio, the writers may kill each other before the murderer gets to them.  It's an avalanche of laughter with more twists and turns than a giant  slalom. 


This play has been produced across the US and Canada.


  • 100 Lunches - Comedy/3f. 3m/Multiple interior sets - Co-wriiten with the late Jack Sharkey

 Successful mystery playwright Chuck Reynolds has had his plays lauded by  all critics except Charity Starr. When she shows up at his home and has  the unmitigated gall to ask his expert help in writing a play of her  own, Chuck fiendishly insists that their teacher/pupil sessions be held  over lunch with Charity footing the bill at the most expensive  restaurants in New York City. Lunatic waiters provide a uniquely  hilarious touch to these meetings. Love blossoms despite the scheming of  Chuck's amorous neighbor. Charity's play opens on Broadway and she  finds out what it's like to be a target for all her critical confreres.  Non stop fun, romance, and explosive hilarity make this an ideal show  for the entire family.  


This play has been produced across the US and Canada.


  • Star on the Door - Comedy/4m, 2f/Interior set - Co-written with the late Jack Sharkey

 Cinema legend Doreen Lewis, nervously about to make her Broadway debut  opposite her ardent admirer Paul Burnside, intercepts a phone call for  her dresser who is secretly wed to Doreen's son confirming that "Mrs.  Lewis" is pregnant. A loony resolution caps this evening of non stop  guffaws. 


This play has been produced across the US and Canada.

Screenplay Available

Leo's Stage Plays available from Concord Theatricals

Leo's Stage Plays available from Concord Theatricals

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PERIL IN PARADISE


 

Thriller    |    25 Aug 2020

Two women vacation in a tropical resort in search of romance but find themselves involved with a psychopath in the middle of a drug war.


This thriller set in Hawaii could be shot at any tropical location.  Two lead females in 20's; one male lead in 50's;  one lead male early 30's.

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