Screenwriting

Screenwriting: How to Write a Professional Screenplay and Sell it to Hollywood is an indispensible primer for all aspiring screenwriters. It is not a creative writing book. It focuses on the current industry standard dramatic structure for film and script format utilized in the Hollywood film industry today. It deals with the origins of film story, building an effective main character and the emotional journey that character takes, the essence of story setting, effective conflict and everything Hollywood considers is the most effective way to tell a modern film story. It outlines how to protect your literary rights and how and where to submit your material including how to write a winning query letter. No other screenwriting book puts you in the driver's seat more quickly and effectively. It is not only what you need to know, but everything you need to know to become a successful screenwriter in the professional film industry. Claude Brickell is a former Hollywood executive story editor with project development for Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand and Paul Newman and for producers Jay Weston ('Lady Sings the Blues'), Arnold Kopelson (Oliver Stone's 'Platoon'), John Daly (Bernardo Bertolucci's 'The Last Emperor') and Steven Bach at United Artists. In France, he repped their 3rd largest film studio helping bring 20th Century Fox's 'The Jewel of the Nile' w/Michael Douglas, Warner Bros.' "Under the Cherry Moon' w/Prince and John Frankenheimer's mini-series 'Riviera' to the South of France lot.