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Saturday,
Sunday, and Monday
May 26, 27, and 28, 2001
Academy Classes
are for advanced students. Each class is limited to 15 advanced students
only who may choose one Academy Mentor for nine hours of instruction from
nine a.m. until noon each day. If you are considering enrolling for one
of these classes, it is recommended that you have written at least two
screenplays and be working on your third.
As the early pages of a screenplay are the most important, you are to
bring the first ten pages of your latest screenplay to class for critique
by the other advanced students led by the Academy Mentor who will also
offer constructive criticism as well as guidance.
Chris
DeVore
Chris
won the Writers Guild Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for
his adaptation of The Elephant Man which became an Oscar-winning
film. He also wrote the screenplay adaptation of Hamlet for director
Franco Zeffirelli. Chris currently teaches at the College of Santa Fe.
William
Kelley
Bill
won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Witness.
Other awards include two Golden Spur awards for Best Western Scripts,
Gunsmoke and How the West Was Won. He has also written five
novels, two non-fiction books and lectures and teaches screenwriting at
numerous prestigious institutions. He has been interviewed for countless
press articles and books.
Mark
Medoff
Mark
was nominated for an Academy Award for the adaptation of his Tony Award
winning play Children of a Lesser God. He has also been nominated
for a Cable ACE award for his HBO Premiere movie Apology. Mark
is the author of twenty-three plays and eleven movies. Among his movies
are Clara's Heart, Off Beat, and City of Joy. He recently
completed "The Chimes" for CBS, based on the Dickens story of
the same name. He
is currently writing "The Watchman" for Showtime, based on the
efforts of Holocaust survivors to retrieve monies from dormant Swiss bank
accounts. Mark teaches at
New Mexico State University.
David
S. Ward
David
won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Sting.
He was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay for Sleepless in
Seattle. Other screenwriting credits include The Mask of Zorro,
The Program, King Ralph, Major League, The Milagro
Beanfield War, Cannery Row, and Steelyard Blues. He
is also a film director and has directed many of his own screenplays.
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