UCLA Screenwriting: Prof. Richard Walter - prerequisites waived

(If you live in LA, this might interest you.)
UCLA Summer Screenwriting Course with Prof. Richard Walter Study for university credit with UCLA's legendary screenwriting chairman. This course is especially designed for the UCLA Summer Session; all prerequisites are waived; this is a rare for-credit University course for which you do not have to be a UCLA student. It meets in a round-table seminar setting for six Monday afternoons during Summer Session 'A' starting mid June and ending late July. The main assignment is the first 25 pages of a screenplay. It is appropriate for new and experienced writers. The course includes in- class writing exercises, analysis of students' pages, and more.

UCLA-trained screenwriters won the Oscar this year for MILK, and were nominated also for BENJAMIN BUTTON (the third nomination for this writer; it would have been his second Oscar). The year before last another of Walter's students won the Oscar for SIDEWAYS. UCLA writers have written the following pictures for Steven Spielberg: JURASSIC PARK I, II, & III, INDIANA JONES II & III, MUNICH, WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE TERMINAL, & EAGLE EYE. Television projects written by Walter's students include among others THE OFFICE, FRINGE, GOSSIP GIRLS, THE SIMPSONS, SEX IN THE CITY, MELROSE PLACE, BEVERLY HILLS 90210, EVERY BODY LOVES RAYMOND, KING OF QUEENS, CHEERS and many, many more.

For registration info click http://www.summer.ucla.edu/EnrollRegister / overview.htm and http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/schedule/detselect summer.aspx? termsel=091&subareasel=FILM+TV&idxcrs=0135A++ +6A.

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