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05-17-2002, 09:59 PM
I felt this was of interest sharing because it shows the climate Garth has already stepped into in his "new" role as a screenwriter. Anybody know anything about the people mentioned in this article from today's Nashville City Paper?
Screenwriters Conference provides link between Nashville, Hollywood
By Ron Wynn
The links between the creative communities in Nashville and Hollywood will be examined and evaluated this week at the fourth-annual Nashville Screenwriters Conference. The event begins today and continues through Sunday at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University. This year’s conference will emphasize ways of increasing the collaboration between Nashville and the film and television worlds in Los Angeles and New York.
The conference emerged from a spark generated by a 1999 business trip that brought highly experienced and knowledgeable writers Karen Murphy and Les Bohem to Nashville. Between them they’d worked on such projects as Best In Show, Daylight and This Is Spinal Tap, among others. From their immediate interactions with various writers, they crafted the idea for a conference that would spotlight the city and also provide a means for aspiring local screenwriters to receive information and guidance directly from those working regularly in the business.
The 2002 conference has a number of select panels aimed at facilitating contacts, improving skills and increasing access for local screenwriters with Hollywood companies and professionals. The list of selected topics includes “Is Your Idea a Movie?” “Gender, Gendarme, Genre,” “Start Me Up,” “I’ve Got a Screenplay, Now What?,” “The Business of Art,” “Develop Your Talent in Your Hometown,” “The Television Show,” “A Music in Movies Luncheon,” and some related events such as a film screening, reception, and various informal gatherings.
Some of this year’s participants, beside Murphy and Bohem, include Gary Haber, a certified public accountant for more than 30 years who has also had a lengthy association with entertainment artists dating back to his having done a tax return for Janis Joplin. Music supervisor/consultant Frankie Pine, music supervisors Nora Felder and Anastasia Brown, singer/songwriter John Hiatt, and Bill Green, executive vice president of Walt Disney Pictures, are among other confirmed panelists at the conference.
Information and registration forms can be obtained by either calling (888) 680-4491 or contacting www.nashscreen.com. Discounts are available for students and members of the Writers Guild of America.Does all this mean Nashville will now also be home of some up-and-coming actors and actresses? And here Garth is heading in that direction in some form too! :)
Screenwriters Conference provides link between Nashville, Hollywood
By Ron Wynn
The links between the creative communities in Nashville and Hollywood will be examined and evaluated this week at the fourth-annual Nashville Screenwriters Conference. The event begins today and continues through Sunday at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University. This year’s conference will emphasize ways of increasing the collaboration between Nashville and the film and television worlds in Los Angeles and New York.
The conference emerged from a spark generated by a 1999 business trip that brought highly experienced and knowledgeable writers Karen Murphy and Les Bohem to Nashville. Between them they’d worked on such projects as Best In Show, Daylight and This Is Spinal Tap, among others. From their immediate interactions with various writers, they crafted the idea for a conference that would spotlight the city and also provide a means for aspiring local screenwriters to receive information and guidance directly from those working regularly in the business.
The 2002 conference has a number of select panels aimed at facilitating contacts, improving skills and increasing access for local screenwriters with Hollywood companies and professionals. The list of selected topics includes “Is Your Idea a Movie?” “Gender, Gendarme, Genre,” “Start Me Up,” “I’ve Got a Screenplay, Now What?,” “The Business of Art,” “Develop Your Talent in Your Hometown,” “The Television Show,” “A Music in Movies Luncheon,” and some related events such as a film screening, reception, and various informal gatherings.
Some of this year’s participants, beside Murphy and Bohem, include Gary Haber, a certified public accountant for more than 30 years who has also had a lengthy association with entertainment artists dating back to his having done a tax return for Janis Joplin. Music supervisor/consultant Frankie Pine, music supervisors Nora Felder and Anastasia Brown, singer/songwriter John Hiatt, and Bill Green, executive vice president of Walt Disney Pictures, are among other confirmed panelists at the conference.
Information and registration forms can be obtained by either calling (888) 680-4491 or contacting www.nashscreen.com. Discounts are available for students and members of the Writers Guild of America.Does all this mean Nashville will now also be home of some up-and-coming actors and actresses? And here Garth is heading in that direction in some form too! :)