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A 3-Day “Master Screenwriting Class” and Breakthrough Experiencefor 10 Aspiring and Professional Writers, Producers, and Directors
THE ALKYON HOTEL, VRAHATI, GREECE
YOUR HOME FOR THE 1 st ANNUAL SIKYON WRITERS WORKSHOP
with William Lee: Screenwriter, Producer, Director, Coach
Hollywood Comes to Greece ! AUGUST 11TH TO AUGUST 14TH 2010
Special Live Guests via Skype include Hollywood’s “King of Pitch” Robert Kosberg; veteranProducer, Writer, Director Jay Craven (Kingdom County Productions); and David Hoselton,Emmy nominated Writer & Producer on “House”
Are you ready to take your writing to another level?
Imagine if you could create IDEAS & STORIES movie PRODUCERS WANT TO BUY !
Imagine if you could learn the SECRETS of HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL SCREENWRITERS !
Imagine if you could find that ONE THING to make YOUR WRITING BREAKTHROUGH
A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO PITCH YOUR MOVIE IDEA
ONE TO ONE
WITH ONE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST SUCCESSFUL PRODUCERS
A ONE-ON-ONE 90 SECOND PHONE PITCH FOR ALL WORKSHOP ATTENDEE WITH LOS ANGELES BASED ROBERT KOSBERG LIVE VIA SKYPE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, AT 7 PM
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Do you want to write a SCREENPLAY THAT SELLS?
Do you want to know how to find an AGENT or MANAGER?
Do you want to be a PRODUCED SCREENWRITER?
4 PRODUCER/WRITER/DIRECTORS
OVER 75 COMBINED YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE FILM & TELEVISION BUSINESS
William Lee Robert Kosberg David Hoselton Jay Craven
WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR?
Aspiring writers who want to create a professional screenplay; Experienced screenwriters who want to move to the next level; Novelists who want to adapt their book into a screenplay; Producers who want to create their own material; or ANYONE WITH AN IDEA, STORY, SCREENPLAY, BOOK OR DESIRE.
Bring your idea, story, screenplay or novel to the workshop and wewill work on it together!
CHECK OUT THE AMAZING PACKAGE YOU GET WHEN YOU JOIN US IN GREECE :
5 DAYS AND 4 NIGHTS AT THE ALKYON RESORT HOTEL IN VRAHATI, GREECE
ACCESS TO ALL ALKYON HOTEL FACILITES
BREAKFASTS AND DINNERS INCLUDED
TUESDAY NIGHT OUZO MIXER
FRIDAY NIGHT CLOSING PARTY AND TSIPOURO MIXER
VISIT TO SITE OF THE SIKYON THEATER: BIRTHPLACE OF MODERNSTORYTELLING: TRAGEDY & COMEDY
3 DAYS OF BRAINSTORMING, COLLABORATING & WORKING ON YOUR PROJECT
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o AS GOOD AS IT GETS (Academy Award nomination)
FREE FOUNDING ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP TO THE SCREENPLAY ACADEMY FORONE YEAR!
($1,164 value)
PERSONAL 30 MINUTE COACHING AND Q & A PHONE CALL FOR 12 WEEKS ($900 value)
BI-WEEKLY WORKSHOP ATTENDEES ONLY 45 MINUTE WEBINARS FOR 90 DAYS ($600 value)
90 DAY MEMBERSHIP TO THE SCREENWRITING MAKE IT HAPPEN PROGRAM ($291 value)
PROFESSIONAL SCRIPT EVALUATION AND COVERAGE UPON COMPLETION OFYOUR SCREENPLAY
($247 value)
AND UNLIMITED EMAIL CONTACT FOR 90 DAYS!
TOTAL VALUE OF WORKSHOP BONUSES = $3,202
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT’S EVEN BETTER?
WE WON’T LEAVE YOU WHEN IT’S OVER!
YOU GET A COMPLETE PERSONALIZED
ONE ON ONE 90 DAY FOLLOW UP !
AND PLEASE REMEMBER…
MY PROMISE TO YOU!
If you're not completely happy after the first 48 hours of the workshopjust let me knoand I'll send you $500 US when you get home. And you can still have a great week iGreece!
- OR – If you COMPLETE the workshop & continue the 90 day follow through program, ANYOU'RE STILL NOT 100% HAPPY, then just send me an email and I'll give you $500 US
All I ask is that you write one or two lines in your email telling me what you didn't like s I can improve the program.
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THE COMPLETE PACKAGE FOR ONLY $1197 US (997 EUROS) PER PERSON SINGLE OCCUPANCY
THE COMPLETE PACKAGE FOR ONLY $997 US (797 EUROS) PER PERSON DOUBLE OCCUPANCY
WILLIAM LEE(Workshop Co-Leader on site)
“Creating, writing, coaching and teaching are my passions.”
William Lee is a produced screenwriter; independent producer; and a directorwho has worked in the film and television industry for over 25 years.
His independent producing began with the development andproduction of his original script for Pressure Point in 2000 starringMichael Madsen (Kill Bill; Thelma and Louise; Free Willy); andcontinued more recently with The Vessel; Hallowed Halls; and theromantic comedy How Will I Know – which he also directed andadapted from the stage play The Long Weekend.
William also works as a screenwriting teacher and coach for private clients, and was a
screenwriting lecturer at The University of Sherbrooke in Quebec Canada. His professional film antelevision experience includes over 25 years working in film and television with some of the beprofessionals in the industry:
* 7 time Academy Award nominee Norman Jewison;* Academy Award winner John Schlesinger;* Academy Award winners Cher and Nicolas Cage;* Emmy Award winner Leonard Nimoy;* Academy Award winner John Patrick Shanley;* Emmy and Cable ACE Award winner Ray Bradbury;* 2 time Academy Award nominee Atom Egoyan;* Golden Globe winner Martin Sheen;
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* Golden Globe winners Ving Rhames and Tom Selleck
William also created and developed the entertainment related Internet project Next Picture. NexPicture attracted a dream team of mentors and associates including:
* Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records and Palm Pictures, and producer of ‘Kiss of The Spider Woman’, ‘Basketball Diaries’, and ‘The Trip to Bountiful’
* Alex Ho, producer of Ali, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, Platoon, and JFK* Sigurjon ‘Joni’ Sighvatsson, ‘Candyman’, Red Rock West* Robert De Niro and Tribeca Films
“In my experience, the advice, inspiration and ideas we desperately want are often revealed to uswhen get to hear the INSIDE STORY from people (leaders) who have walked the path beforeus. But, not just any old story.”
YOU NEED THE REAL " BEHIND THE SCENES " LOOK WE RARELY SEE OR HEAR ABOUT.
Join us in Greece at the Alkyon Hotel and learn the real "behind the scenes" point of view of working screenwriters, producers and agents that are out there networking; writing;
selling projects; making movies and television shows.
Imagine if you gained JUST ONE NEW IDEA, insight or bit of encouragement as a result of ourworkshop that could turn your screenplay into a selling screenplay.
WRITE A SCREENPLAY THAT ACTORS WANT TO STAR IN
WRITE A SCREENPLAY THAT AGENTS WANT TO REPRESENT
WRITE A SCREENPLAY THAT PRODUCERS WANT TO BUY & TURN INTO A MOVIE
Join us at the 1st Annual Sikyon Writers Workshop and you will learn the secrets of high
successful screenwriters and find that ONE THING you need for your WRITIN
BREAKTHROUGH !
LET US HELP YOU REACH YOUR WRITING GOALS…
AND HAVE FUN IN THE PROCESS!
ROBERT KOSBERG(via Skype from LA)
Studio head and producer Sherry Lansing dubbed Robert Kosberg, "The best idea man inHollywood."
Fade In magazine named him to its "Top 100 People to Know in Hollywood" list.
Gentleman's Quarterly (GQ) magazine wrote a feature story about him called, "The Art of the
Pitch."
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As a creative producer, he has pitched hundreds of ideas to the Hollywood studios, productioncompanies and American television networks. At any given time, he mighthave as many as 30 projects in active development with the various studios.Kosberg maintains relationships with key creative executives at all of themajor studios - Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Universal, Sony PicturesDisney, MGM, Paramount - and with dozens of key production companies.
He sells ideas for feature films, television movies-of-the-week and cablemovies and has 10 projects set up at various studios.
Kosberg is currently producing The Hardy Men, starring Tom Cruise and BeStiller.
DAVID HOSELTON (via Skype from LA on the set of ‘House’)
David Hoselton is a Canadian screenwriter and television producer, best known for his work onthe television series House, M.D. (now entering his fifth season with the show) and the movies
Over the Hedge , Brother Bear , and First Knight .
Hoselton attended the University of Toronto where he met andbefriended David Shore, the creator of House. Hoselton beganhis Hollywood career in 1987, as a writer for the film Like FatherLike Son, and wrote or co-wrote several other movies. In 2006,during the third season of House, Shore hired Hoselton as awriter for the show. And in 2007, at the beginning of season four, Hoselto
became one of the show's producers.
JAY CRAVEN(VIA Skype from Vermont)
Jay is a Vermont producer, director, screenwriter and professor of film studies at Marlboro College. Craven is known for telling localstories on a modest budget, often with award-winning results. He hasadapted several of the novels of author Howard Frank Mosher to film,and refers to his local storytelling as "cultural filmmaking". He oftencasts from a regular troupe of Vermont actors including TantooCardinal and Rusty DeWees, but has also worked with Michael J. Fox,Martin Sheen, Rip Torn, and Kris Kristofferson. Craven also runs
Kingdom County Productions, his own production company. Jay Craven is married to Bess O'Briewho is also a co-founder of Kingdom County Productions. Craven attended Boston University anGoddard College and lives in the Northeast Kingdom with his family.
ARVIND DEVALIA
(via Skype from London)
Arvind is a writer, blogger, life coach and social entrepreneur living in a leafy part of central London. He was born in Kenya but has been living in London for over 20 years.Arvind is passionate about people, making a difference to others, and is committed to
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creating a life of contribution, connection and celebration. Arvind’s driving mission is to shopeople how to Make It Happen, the driving principle in his coaching program and the focus of hfirst book of the same name.
Raising thousands of dollars for a charity school in South India (Nirvana School), writing anpublishing a book in just 4 weeks, and bringing hundreds of people together for a picnic in London are just a few of the positive goals Arvind has completed. During the dot com boom, Arvin
was part of an internet startup which raised millions of pounds of funding and at ontime was part of a group of internet created paper millionaires.
Along with the book Make It Happen, Arvind is the author of “Get the Life you Love an
Live it” www.GettheLifeyouLove.com and “Personal Social Responsibility
www.PersonalSocialResponsibility.com Together with Bill and The Screenpla
Academy, Arvind is adapting his Make It Happen coaching program to fit the needs and desires ocreative artists, and writers in particular.
THE COMPLETE PACKAGE FOR ONLY $1197 US (997 EUROS) PER PERSON SINGLEOCCUPANCY
THE COMPLETE PACKAGE FOR ONLY $997 US (797 EUROS) PER PERSON DOUBLE OCCUPANCY
MY PROMISE TO YOU!
If you're not completely happy after the first 48 hours of the workshopjust let me knoand I'll send you $500 US when you get home. And you can still have a great week i
Greece!
- OR – If you COMPLETE the workshop & continue the 90 day follow through program, ANYOU'RE STILL NOT 100% HAPPY, then just send me an email and I'll give you $500 US
All I ask is that you write one or two lines in your email telling me what you didn't like s I can improve the program.
“I’m fortunate to have worked with, been mentored by, and met many successful film professionals.
David Koepp* was one of those and this is what he told me in an email…”
dear bill,
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thanks for your e mail, and i'm glad you're focusing on your writing, the movies need good scripts,desperately...
i'm afraid i don't have the scripts of my old movies on disc anywhere, i tend to just let those gowhen i buy a new computer, but if you send me your address i can probably scrounge up a few
paper drafts to send you... which ones did you say you wanted?
regards,dk
p.s. yes, i would be glad to read a script of yours when you have one that you feel is ready to senout... let me know and i'll send you a release at that time...
dk
* David Koepp, Writer: Secret Window (and Director); Secret Garden; Spider-Man II; "Hack" (2002) TV Series (creator); Spider-Man; Panic Room; Stir of Echoes; Lost World: Jurassic Park,The; Mission: Impossible; Jurassic Park.
“I remember the first time I sat in a dark theater and watched my words come to life onthe big screen – it’s something I’ll always remember! Come be part of history in Greecefrom August 10th to August 14th.
Come create YOUR history.”
Join us for the 1 st Annual Sikyon Writers Workshop and kick start your writing career!
Best,Bill
William [email protected]
P.S. If your goal is to WRITE SCREENPLAYS OR BOOKS THAT SELL and BUILD A CAREER starting on August 10th , 2010, then I highly recommend you book your spot now and join us for 3days of inspiration and revelation.
THE COMPLETE PACKAGE FOR ONLY $1197 US (997 EUROS) PER PERSON SINGLE OCCUPANCY
THE COMPLETE PACKAGE FOR ONLY $997 US (797 EUROS) PER PERSON DOUBLE OCCUPANCY