Write. Reach. Represent - ScriptDC

Write. Reach. Represent:  How Having a Female and an(Other) ‘New' Voice in the Writer's Room has Always Been Paramount (even at Universal) with Rosanne Welch, PhD

Whenever modern day studio executives wonder if women can handle ‘big budget pictures' we need to educate them on the many, many female screenwriters, directors and producers who gave birth to the film industry from the turn of the twentieth century through today.

This talk will introduce listeners to several prominent female screenwriters from Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) to Dorothy Parker (A Star is Born) to Frances Goodrich (The Diary of Anne Frank) to Harriet Frank, Jr. (Norma Rae) to Joan Didion (A Star is Born).  In all of their personal writing about writing screenplays, they mention the importance of (often) being the lone woman in the room during pitches and during the development of a screenplay.  Goodrich was quoted as saying, "I'm always the only woman working on the picture and I hold the fate of the women [characters] in my hand... I'll fight for what the gal will or will not do, and I can be completely unfeminine about it."  Joan Didion told the story of how her writing partner/husband John Gregory Dunne would often feign illness so she would attend script meetings alone after they noticed male executives ignoring her at earlier meetings. Come learn about them and many, many other powerful women of earlier Hollywood so you can school the next executive who dares to wonder if women can ‘hack it' in the movies.

$15 for WIFV Members and students

$20 for WIFVNE members, check the Member Discussion Board for the discount code
$30 for general public

This program is sponsored by Maryland Film Office and OCTFME.

To register, visit the event page, here.