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Dodging the Info Dump: Exposition and Its Perils

  • Saturday, September 12, 2026
  • 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
  • The Mizell Center, 480 S Sunrise Way, Palm Springs, CA 92262

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Announcing our upcoming In-Person Workshop

Dodging the Info Dump:
Exposition & Its Perils


Mischa Livingstone is an award-winning filmmaker whose films have been showcased at festivals worldwide and included in the Smithsonian permanent collection. Notable festival screening include the Berlin International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival and Cinequest, where he won the Viewer's Voice Award.

He is the co-author of “No-Nonsense Filmmaking”, an OER textbook that demystifies the filmmaking process and which was a Pressbooks Book of the Month. 

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Mischa immigrated to Israel as a child. He studied theatre at the Thelma Yellin School of the Arts and later moved to the United States. At UCLA, he earned a BA in Film Production (summa cum laude) and an MFA in Screenwriting. He is also an alumnus of the Berlinale Talent Campus.

Mischa shares his expertise in film production by teaching at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where he is an Assistant Professor.

Presentation Overview:

Every story has a past it needs to explain but the moment readers feel you explaining it, you've lost them. This is the challenge of weaving exposition into your writing: too much and you bog down the story; two little and readers are lost in a fog. This workshop, led by award winning author and filmmaker Mischa Livingstone, will teach you some clever tricks for setting up your story, revealing character motivations while hiding your exposition in fun and creative ways. Whether it's inside a piece of dialogue, a description of a room, or the way a character fidgets with a particular object, your exposition will become richer and more relevant to the story you are telling.

Attendees, bring the first page/scene of something you are working on to the workshop.

Takeaways:

    • Identify why exposition is essential to grounding readers in a story.
    • Recognize common exposition mistakes. 
    • Explore alternatives to dialogue for revealing exposition. 

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    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: Brian Rouley

    Email:Brian@Rouley.com