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Making a Scene

  • Saturday, September 09, 2023
  • 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
  • The Mizell Center, 480 S Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262

Registration

  • Premium Membership includes free entry to all General Speaker Meetings, Insider Workshops and Writing Labs for the year. You must be logged in to select this option.
  • Standard or Student members who register on or before the date of the preceding month’s Insider Workshop will receive an early registration discount of $25 off the regular $80 fee. You must be logged in to select this option.
  • Standard and Student members are provided a la carte access to Insider Workshops at the Member rate of $80. You must be logged in to select this option.
  • Non-Members pay $155 for each Insider Workshop. Please note that if you choose to join the Guild before registering for this event you will pay a $75 Membership fee, and then the Member rate of $80 for the event—the same $155 total, but you’ll then gain all the benefits of membership in the Guild (including the Membership rate of $80 at any future Workshop).
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Announcing our next In-Person Workshop

Making a Scene
Dennis Escobedo



About Dennis Escobedo

Dennis Escobedo is the screenwriter of Bookworm, Advice For Teenage Outcasts, Last Summer of Nathan Lee, & The Unlucky.


Last Summer of Nathan Lee will make its world premiere at CAAMFest 2023 in San Francisco directed by award winning director Quentin Lee, produced by Margin Films.

Advice for Teenage Outcasts is in development with award winning director B Kelley (The Real Thing) and Sophie Giannamore (The L Word, Transparent) set to star.

Dennis' plays The Poet of Columbus Avenue and Charlotte Second Chance have been performed in NYC Off-Broadway (Pan Asian Rep), Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Stanford University.

Watch the trailer for Last Summer of Nathan Lee here.


Description of talk:

All successful books contain many well-written scenes, while all movies are made up entirely of scenes that is why screenwriter Dennis Escobedo is ideally suited to lead this unique workshop.
Takeaways:

  • Learn to identify the heart of a scene
  • How to build progressive complications
  • Expand character understanding
  • Move the plot forward
  • Add humor and pathos

REGISTER

To receive a full refund minus a $25 cancellation processing fee, attendees must cancel their registration 5 days before the event. No refunds will be given after that time. To cancel your registration, go to palmspringswritersguild.org and click on the blue icon at the top right of any page. Enter user name and password and click "LOG IN". On the next screen click "My event registrations". Select event and cancel registration. 

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Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. and ends at 2:30 p.m. 

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Event Contact: Eduardo Santiago
santiagogo@aol.com