Friday, May 15, 2009

News: Robert McKee’s Story Seminar

Robert McKee is the world's most respected teacher on screenwriting and story. Regularly teaching his course to sold-out audiences around the world, more than 50,000 students have taken the seminar over the last 20 years. Attracting everyone from first-time writers to Hollywood's biggest stars, McKee's course is a source of knowledge and inspiration to screenwriters, TV writers, novelists, producers, directors, playwrights, fiction writers and more.

One of McKee's former students - Andrew Stanton - just won the Oscar for "Best Animated Feature" at the 2009 Academy Awards. The film was also nominated for "Best Original Screenplay." It was Andrew's second Oscar. McKee's former students have now won 30 Oscars, over 180 Emmys, 19 WGA Awards, 16 DGA Awards, the British Book of the Year Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing and more.

McKee's former students have written or co-written some of the biggest and most critically acclaimed films and TV shows, including: Wall*E, Southpark, Iron Man, Desperate Housewives, Law & Order, CSI, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Grey's Anatomy, Hancock, The Lord of the Rings I-III, Adaptation, Nixon, Toy Story, The Daily Show and many, many more.

Story Seminar is being held in Melbourne at The Kino Cinema on Collins Street from June 19 to 21 and in Sydney at The Chauvel Cinema, Paddington from June 26 to 28. The seminar runs for three days from 9am – 8.30pm.

'A visionary master of the craft and a brilliant teacher... Story Seminar is an experience guaranteed to leave writers of every stripe spellbound' VARIETY

Learn why many writers and filmmakers around the world revere him as the greatest story and screenwriting teacher of our time. There is one industry flat rate, so book online at www.epiphany.com.au or call (03) 9531 7333 (Melb) or (02) 9572 7222 (Syd).

Source: ADG

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