Creating A Production Company - Online Class

Description

The upcoming ESE FLM WORKSHOPS ONLINE course, “Creating a Production Company,” is a six-week online workshop designed to help producers, writers, directors and actors successfully create a shingle in Hollywood. This is not a “how to produce a movie” course but rather an innovative look at how to set up a company, the systems necessary to facilitate a production company, finding material, making contacts with the right companies, studios and/or networks, pitching projects to those companies and successfully managing a creative production company.

The online workshop will begin on February 20 thru March 26. The cost of this six-week course is $350.00.

This class will cover such topics as:
· The Production Company and Producer’s role;
· Develop skills and systems to aid and function as a production company;
· Developing relationships within the Hollywood Community as both buyer and seller;
· The best way to find material, writers and directors;
· Creating a strategy in order to sell your material.

Upcoming 2008 ESE Film Workshops Online Classes and Events:

Jan. 23 – Sundance Film Festival – Book Signing at Dolly’s Bookstore, Noon
Feb. 16 – Writers Store Free Seminar @ 11:00 a.m. -“Creating a Production Company”
Feb. 20 - ESE Film Workshops Online - "Creating a Production Company" – 6-week course
Apr. 9 – ESE Film Workshops Online – “Maneuvering Film Festivals” – 4-week course
Apr. 26-27 – LA Times Festival of Books – Writers Store Booth
May 14 - ESE Film Workshops Online - "Finding & Developing New Ideas" - 4-week course
Jun. 21-22 - Great American Pitchfest - Storylink All-Stars Speakers
Sept. 11-14- Big Bear Lake Film Festival - Guest Speakers/Panelists

About the Instructors:
A graduate of California Institute of the Arts, Rona Edwards was Vice President of Creative Affairs for Emmy-winning actor, John Larroquette, Emmy-winning producer, Fern Field and Oscar-winning producer, Michael Phillips. With seven movies to her credit, including Out of Sync (VH1) and The Companion (USA/SciFi), she recently set-up up a feature Matchmakers at Warner Bros. as well as developed the movie Blind Trust which recently aired in 2007 on Lifetime Television.

Monika Skerbelis has fifteen years of studio executive experience working in the story department at Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox and running the story department at Universal Pictures. She is the Artistic and Programming Director for the Big Bear Lake International Film Festival. She is a producer with Edwards Skerbelis Entertainment (ESE).

TOGETHER:
Rona Edwards and Monika Skerbelis are the authors of the book, “I Liked It, Didn’t Love It (Screenplay Development from the Inside Out)” published by Lone Eagle. This spring, they kicked off ESE FILM WORKSHOPS ONLINE, offering comprehensive film courses without leaving your home. Currently, they teach "Introduction to Feature Film Development" at UCLA Extension both on campus and online as well as "Story Development Process" at Riverside Community College and "Basic Screenwriting" on campus at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film & Media Arts. Recently, they formed Edwards Skerbelis Entertainment (ESE) a company dedicated to nurturing filmmakers and screenwriting talent. Their Web site (www.esentertainment.net) offers more conclusive information on how they can help with careers in the entertainment industry.

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