ScreenplayLab Halloween Party and Costume Contest Oct 28th

NEWS: Halloween Party on Saturday, Good Witch headshot wanted, what you missed, AFM, Adam LeBow in 'Inside Private Lives', Laurie Hutzler Teaching at UCLA.

Happening this Saturday...

Halloween Party and Costume Contest. It's a party! Mingle with beautiful people and upbeat industry players. Trick or treat? What will you wear? Cash prize of $50 for best costume! Halloween costume suggested but not required. In keeping with our group's upbeat comedy mission, we're looking for the best funny or sexy costume, not the scariest. No contest entry fee or cover charge. We'll pick the winner around 5:30pm. Dress code is club-wear or biz casual cocktail party. Cash bar and treats. No speaker or workshop this week.

RSVP online at www.ScreenplayLab.com
Saturday (not Sunday), October 28, 2006, 3pm to 6pm
Free to Industry and Guests!
The Patio at Write Act Theatre
6128 Yucca Street, Hollywood (Gower and 101 Fwy.)
Park in the lot free or on the street (parking can be difficult)
Smoking is not permitted at any ScreenplayLab event

Are You Our Good Witch?

Do you have a cute or funny headshot wearing a Halloween costume? We're looking for an image to use on our website as our "Good Witch" for the Halloween party. As an actor you could get some free promotion for yourself and your latest show. Email your Good Witch or Warlock headshot with a short bio or resume to info@ScreenplayLab.com with subject: "Halloween Photo".

What You May Have Missed Last Week...

Here's something you don't hear often from an exec...if your movie would be under $30M we're not interested. Creative Exec J. Sikura of The Robert Evans Company described their work in big budget rom-com features. Robin Rowe of ScreenplayLab led a Pitch Clinic to help mend faulty pitches. Everyone who pitched was able to improve his or her pitch by applying the concepts of Genre, Archetypes not Stereotypes, Hero, Inciting Incident, and Quest. Actress Tiffany Cole described her recent experience of meeting at an agent's office on a referral to discuss her career.

AFM is Coming on Nov 1st to 8th...

The American Film Market is coming up. In case you don't know, this is the American alternative to Cannes. AFM managing director Jonathan Wolf gave us some tips when he spoke at ScreenplayLab. If you want to work the show to promote your project as an independent producer the ticket you need is the HALF MARKET badge for $295. (Buying the more expensive FULL MARKET badge doesn't help because the first days of the show are reserved for meetings with the majors.)

http://www.ifta-online.org/afm/att_how_att.asp

Want free stuff? You can go to the lobby of the hotel and get all the promotional materials and magazines that you can carry. Get what you need to be ready for AFM next year. You can see a free movie screening at the AFM Public Previews:

http://www.ifta-online.org/afm/premiere.asp

Adam LeBow in 'Inside Private Lives'...

Running Sunday nights for six weeks. The "4th Wall" is broken as the audience is swept into each character's controversy, challenged to engage and debate celebrated persons such as Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott, King Edward VIII of England, and notorious director Elia Kazan (played by Adam LeBow). Sunday nights at 7:30 PM at The Lex Theatre in Hollywood starting October 22nd. Tickets $15 at http://www.plays411.com/insideprivatelives or (323) 960-7792.

Laurie Hutzler Teaching at UCLA...

Laurie Hutzler's Character Map Seminar. Create characters that leap off the page. Bring your most difficult character problems for Laurie to help you solve them. Laurie Hutzler just finished working as a staff writer on The Black Donnellys, Oscar-winner Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco's new NBC one-hour drama series. (Laurie's notes from when she spoke at ScreenplayLab: http://screenplaylab.com/2006/Hutzler.notes.pdf.) Saturday, Nov 4, 2006, 10am-5pm, $125. UCLA. Melnitz Hall room 2534. (310) 825-6827. http://www.filmprograms.ucla.edu/short_courses.htm

Note this week's location is The Patio at Write Act Theatre...

http://www.writeactrep.org/

Write Act is a 60-seat Equity stage at St. Stephen's Church, 6128 Yucca Street, Hollywood, between Franklin and Hollywood Boulevards. Enter the free parking lot on the corner of Gower and Carlos. To enter from the parking lot come up two sets of stairs. Wheelchair accessible from the north side of the building. ScreenplayLab expresses special thanks to development director Wil Bowers and artistic director John Lant.

About ScreenplayLab...

ScreenplayLab is 1,200 screenwriters, actors, producers and executives with the mission of making the world a better place through comedy in motion pictures and television.

See you Saturday!

Robin