Q & A With Nicholl Screenwriting Contest Winners

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The Scriptwriters Network is proud to host a panel of Nicholl Fellows during its Speaker Series event on May 10. Come see winners of the most prestigious screenwriting competition there is—The Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting—and find out what's it like to be an esteemed fellow and how the program helped their screenwriting careers. Each year the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences awards up to five fellowships, which are worth $30,000 each. Winners spend a year under the tutelage of industry professionals to develop a screenplay for the commercial market. A win pretty much assures a new writer's career; the top 50 practically guarantees reads by the top agencies. (For more information about the Nicholls Fellowships, visit: http://www.oscars.org/nicholl/) Our panelists include:

• Annmarie E. Morais wrote How She Move, which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.  For Canadian television she wrote Hotel Babylon and co-wrote Kink in my Hair.

• T. J. Lynch wrote A Plumm Summer, which stars Henry Winkler and William Baldwin, with narration by Jeff Daniels. A Plumm Summer opened in theaters on April 25. T.J. is also a Scriptwriters Network alumnus.

•Pamela Kay won the Nicholl Fellowship in 2002 for the script, Nude And Naked.  She is currently working on a project with Tea Leoni for And Then Productions.

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TIME & LOCATION: Charlie Chaplin Theater at Raleigh Studios, 5300 Melrose Ave. (between Bronson and Van Ness). Doors open at 1 pm, with the speaker to begin at 1:30. Free to SWN members and employees of Raleigh Studios. Non-member admission is $15.00 ($10 for members of WGA, Women in Film, FIND, FIN, Screenplay Lab. & Jeff Gund’s Info List—Gund’s people must bring copy of invitation for discount). Enter through the Van Ness gate. Parking is available for $5 on the studio lot; there's also metered street parking.

* Guest speakers subject to change without notice.

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