Florida Center for the Literary Arts
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Time: 10:00am – 2:00pm
Location: MDC Wolfson Campus Street: NE 2nd Avenue
COST: $50

In this intensive, four-hour master class, award-winning producer and screenwriter Ben Odell teaches the essential elements of screenplays from structure to character development, dialogue and beyond. Using clips from feature movies and short films as examples, he breaks down story structure into its simplest form. He will also discuss strategies to break into the industry, including how to format a script, seek representation and get your work in front of producers.

Ben Odell is a partner in Panamax Films and has produced or written a dozen features over the course of his career, including Sangre de mi Sangre (Blood of My Blood), winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival (under the title Padre Nuestro) and two-time Independent Spirit Award nominee. Odell most recently co-wrote and produced the psychological thriller Sin Memoria for Hollywood studio Lionsgate. Sin Memoria will be released this fall. He holds an MFA in film from Columbia University.