Jared Zeller

Saturday, November 17
8:00 a. m. Hotel Monteleone
Café au Lait & Croissants.
Announcements

The Hollywood Experience
Note: this program is for those registered for Words & Music, 2007 and is also a free program for New Orleans area high school and college students and other young adults who wish to pursue careers in the film industry. It runs concurrent with the Master Class on poetry. Students and/or teachers and young adults not enrolled in the
Words & Music festival, should e-mail their reservations for this event to Faulkhouse@aol.com not later than November 8.

8:30 a. m. Hotel Monteleone
Session I
Note: this session has been organized and facilitated by Words & Music, 2007’s Writers Chairman Bonnie Warren and sponsored by Sharon Donovan, successful freelance writer for national magazines.

Blazing Your Trail to a Cinema Career
Realizing Your Dreams of Writing, Directing, Producing and Acting in Films
Four talented young film industry professionals will show you the way to create a career for yourself in the celluloid world of dreams. They are: Colby Johnson, who directed and produced the film, Low & Behold, shot on location in post-Katrina New Orleans, a 2007 Sundance selection; New Orleanian Laura Dodd, a writer and production assistant whose credits include the NCIS television series and who is writing a book about getting into films titled You Have to Start Somewhere. Why Not at the Bottom; Barlow Jacobs, writer, actor and producer for Low & Behold, who lives in New Orleans and whose most recent acting credits are in Micahel Almereyda’s film, New Orleans, Mon Amour, to be released next year, and Craig Sobel’s 2007 Sundance selection, Great World of Sound; and director/writer Zack Godshall, earned his spurs immediately after graduating from UCLA in film production in the film Low & Behold. His short films include The Make-up, The Use of Force, and The Sightseers. For more on these talented young professionals, visit our web site, http://www.wordsandmusic.org/ and click on Faculty.

9:45 a. m. Hotel Monteleone
Hollywood Experience, Session II
Writing Original Screenplays, Adapting Literature for the Screen, and Writing for Live TV Dramas: Different Cups of Tea
Do you approach an original screenplay like you would approach a novel? What kind of book has the makings of a good movie? And writing and re-writing at the drop of a hat—what makes live TV drama work for the audience. Featuring successful novelist and screenwriter Michael Malone. Malone is author a number of novels, including the hilarious southern classic, Handling Sin, a sort of grits and gravy interpretation of Don Quixote; and a trio of classic literary mysteries set in a mythical North Carolina University town that makes most southerners think of home. Those novels are Uncivil Seasons, Time’s Witness, and First Lady. The session also will feature Pulitzer Prize fiction writer Robert Olen Butler whose screenwriting clients have included such Hollywood legends as Robert Redford. Butler won the Pulitzer for a collection of short stories, Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. Other collections include the prose poems of Severance. His novels include They Whisper, Mr. Spaceman, and Fair Warning. They will sign immediately after this session.