Write Screenplays That Sell: The Ackerman Way: 20th Anniversary Edition, Newly Revised and Updated - Paperback
by Hal Ackerman
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Tallfellow PressISBN-13:9781931290685ISBN-10:1931290687UPC:9781931290685Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Screenplays, Television, FilmBook Topic:ScreenwritingSize:8.90 x 5.98 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.2Product ID:SCTHBQ7ZA6
You don't have to attend film school to take a screenwriting course with the master teacher in the field -- it's all in his book! Meet Hal Ackerman, up close and personal, just as hundreds of his students have known him through the years.
Hal Ackerman offers a treasure trove of information on the writing of quality, saleable screenplays by teaching the art of story structure, substance and style.
Over the last quarter century, dozens of screenplays written in his classes have been sold and several have become films, including ones starring Tom Hanks (directed by Steven Spielberg), Gwyneth Paltrow, Christian Bale, Hilary Swank and Diane Lane. They have won accolades in many prestigious contests and have been the gateway scripts to writing jobs in feature films and TV including HBO, Showtime, TNT, OWN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Disney, and more.
With this book every professional writer gets a lifetime collaborator and every aspiring writer has a teacher in residence on his or her shelf.
*Newly Revised and Updated edition featuring Pose, Moonlight, La La Land, Juno, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, among others.
*Top-selling screenwriting book for almost 20 years -- 20th Anniversary Edition
Hal Ackerman offers a treasure trove of information on the writing of quality, saleable screenplays by teaching the art of story structure, substance and style.
Over the last quarter century, dozens of screenplays written in his classes have been sold and several have become films, including ones starring Tom Hanks (directed by Steven Spielberg), Gwyneth Paltrow, Christian Bale, Hilary Swank and Diane Lane. They have won accolades in many prestigious contests and have been the gateway scripts to writing jobs in feature films and TV including HBO, Showtime, TNT, OWN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Disney, and more.
With this book every professional writer gets a lifetime collaborator and every aspiring writer has a teacher in residence on his or her shelf.
*Newly Revised and Updated edition featuring Pose, Moonlight, La La Land, Juno, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, among others.
*Top-selling screenwriting book for almost 20 years -- 20th Anniversary Edition
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Tallfellow PressISBN-13:9781931290685ISBN-10:1931290687UPC:9781931290685Book Category:Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Screenplays, Television, FilmBook Topic:ScreenwritingSize:8.90 x 5.98 x 0.87 inchesWeight:1.2Product ID:SCTHBQ7ZA6
Ackerman, Hal: - Hal Ackerman is emeritus Co-Area Head of the UCLA Screenwriting program. His book has guided the careers of scores of successful writers. He has sold original material to all the major studio and networks. He has had numerous short stories published in literary journals. Belle & Melinda was selected by Robert Olen Butler as the World's Best Short Short story for Southeast Review. TESTOSTERONE: How Prostate Cancer Made A Man of Me won the William Saroyan Centennial Prize for drama. Under its new title, PRICK, it won BEST SCRIPT at the 2011 United Solo Festival. Hal writes, teaches and wins. He currently splits his time between Los Angeles and NYC.
Publisher: Tallfellow Press
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