SOLD OUT – Writing the Half-Hour Television Pilot Treatment – March 2019
Whether you are writing a half-hour drama, comedy or a dramedy, a good treatment helps you identify and prevent important structural and character mistakes. The treatment helps as a diagnostic tool once you’ve completed your draft to foolproof your story. It is also a useful selling tool in a marketplace where, in a practical sense, no one reads it until you have an insider’s attention. Attendees will learn: A foolproof method for the half-hour structure; An easy way to create compelling character arcs within an episode; How to organize your act breaks and your A & B stories with ease; and Participants will create an outline for a script that can then be turned into a treatment. Presented by Marilyn Horowitz.
READ MORELunchtime Skills Workshop: Jim Arnoff Coaching Group
With the start of a new year, join NYWIFT Member/Certified Career Coach/TV Packaging Agent Jim Arnoff in a highly interactive coaching group with fellow NYWIFT members for one-on-one coaching, group coaching, networking and resourcing to supercharge your entertainment career. Bring any areas of your career where you feel stuck, need support or want to brainstorm new possibilities. You’ll learn coaching techniques to envision your ideal career with precision, release those career blocks and create a powerful action plan to create the passion career you deserve. Free and open to NYWIFT members only.
READ MOREIntegrating Independent & Ethical Products into Your Work & Life
You’re invited to a special “bubbly evening” with our partners at Wolf & Badger and Previse DermApothecary SkinCare to celebrate and learn more about integrating independent and ethically made products into your work and daily lives. Network with fellow designers and influential decision-makers while you learn more about unique products and designers who leave mass production behind and put sustainability and independence at the center of their business model. The event includes cocktails & refreshments, exclusive discounts on available items in-store as well as a 15-Minute Vegan Recharge treatment by Previse U.S.-based aestheticians.
READ MOREAdvancing Your Negotiation Skills: Live Roleplay Workshop
Join NYWIFT and Shushana Jachobov, entertainment deal-maker, for a hands-on, live roleplay workshop where attendees will practice, first-hand, how to prepare for and negotiate a deal to acquire intellectual property rights for development. Jachobov will provide a a detailed scenario that will involve a production company negotiation with a rights holder to develop a project for the screen. The scenario will involve a first, introductory meeting. Next will be a scenario for a more involved negotiation meeting. Attendees will work in groups to strategize and run two meetings in real time. Jachobov will then review the meetings, offer feedback, provide recommendations and answer questions.
READ MOREDirecting Actors: Ten Essential Tools for Getting Great Performances
Directing actors can be a challenge. How do you get the best out of your actors? How do you fix a performance that’s off? Adrienne Weiss, Founder of DirectingActors.com developed a method that gives directors the skills they need to diagnose what’s wrong with performances and quickly make them great. Distilled from decades of practical experience, Weiss' technique - The Tools for directing actors - teaches the essentials of how to get great performances, in a method that’s fun and easy to learn. In this evening talk Weiss will share highlights of her acclaimed technique followed by a demonstration with actors and a q&a session.
READ MORECan I Deduct It on My Taxes? – 2019
The new tax laws will have a significant impact on all taxpayers, but particularly entertainment industry personnel. Join CPA Nancy Adams for a discussion on the changes in the law, and how it affects deductions available to you. You’ll walk away with a better understanding of the basic rules on deductions, including new limitations, and potential options available to you going forward.
READ MOREThe Business of Entertainment
Wouldn’t you love to turn your hobby into a career? Could your passion be something that defines you? We were all given talent to share with the world. Do you know how to turn yours into a career? If you’ve ever dreamed about quitting your survival job and pursuing a creative career full-time, but don’t...
READ MORESavvy Screenwriting: What Film Executives Really Look for in a Script that Sells
Savvy Screenwriting: What Film Executives Really Look for in a Script that Sells will demystify how the film industry really works by navigating this seemingly daunting maze with hands-on advice that is geared to empower you. Learn what movie executives’ demand in a winning screenplay and gain firsthand insight into what story analysts look for...
READ MORERetirement Planning for Freelancers
Freelancers usually don’t have access to 401K and pension plans that so many workers take for granted. As usual, freelancers need to do it all themselves. Attend an in-depth and informative financial planning seminar geared towards the retirement needs of freelancers. Whether you are just starting to get your first few projects or you have...
READ MORELunchtime Skills Workshop: Claim Your Power to Create the Entertainment Career You Deserve
Looking to have a more powerful say in the way things are handled in your entertainment career? Tired of giving decisions over to your agent, manager, producer or collaborator? Feeling intimidated about money and talking a deal? This interactive workshop will give you the agent's/life coach's take on how to reclaim making bold decisions in your career and claim your true creative/business voice. Learn the most effective ways to build your confidence, communicate with conviction and ask for what you truly want. Gain the skills to negotiate in a way that minimizes the fears and maximizes the results. Hear the insider's tips on how to network with results. Also, learn the most effective ways to pitch yourself and your projects. This workshop is all about claiming your authentic voice, honoring your creativity, leveraging your strengths and being fully expressed.
READ MOREWriting the Half-Hour Television Pilot Treatment
Whether you are writing a half-hour drama, comedy or a dramedy, a good treatment helps you identify and prevent important structural and character mistakes. The treatment helps as a diagnostic tool once you’ve completed your draft to foolproof your story. It is also a useful selling tool in a marketplace where, in a practical sense, no one reads it until you have an insider’s attention.
READ MOREWriting the Half-Hour Television Pilot Treatment
Writing the Half-Hour Television Pilot Treatment Event: Wednesday May 16, 2018 Whether you are writing a half-hour drama, comedy or a dramedy, a good treatment helps you identify and prevent important structural and character mistakes. The treatment helps as a diagnostic tool once you’ve completed your draft to foolproof your story. It is also a...
READ MOREA Practical Plan to Creating Podcasts – Packaging a Podcast: How It Works
After creating a podcast, what’s next? Join podcast producer Christina Kotlar and actor/blogger/host/producer Frances McGarry for the third and last installment of the series A Practical Plan to Creating Podcasts – Packaging a Podcast: How It Works. This workshop will go “under the hood” of the dashboard demonstrating the mechanics and components necessary for your podcast packaging. The workshop will...
READ MORELunchtime Skills Workshop: Owning Your Power… Taking Charge of Your Career!
Looking to have a lot more say in the way things are handled in your entertainment career? Tired of giving decisions over to your agent, manager, producer or collaborator? Feeling intimidated about money and talking a deal? This interactive workshop will give you the agent’s/career coach’s take on how to reclaim the decisions in your...
READ MOREHow To Write the Perfect Sitcom Pilot in 30 Days
In this practical workshop, Horowitz will discuss the elements that make up a perfect half-hour pilot. A perfect pilot is onethat sells, and to do so, must contain certain elements that will ensure the proper industry reception. The class will focus on the half-hour pilot, the most commercially viable format for the first time...
READ MORESavvy Screenwriting: What Film Executives Really Look for in a Script that Sells
Savvy Screenwriting: What Film Executives Really Look for in a Script that Sells will demystify how the film industry really works by navigating this seemingly daunting maze with hands-on advice that is geared to empower you. Learn what movie executives’ demand in a winning screenplay and gain firsthand insight into what story analysts look for...
READ MOREWomen Filmmakers: Immigrant Stories 2017 Screening – From Nowhere
Women Filmmakers: Immigrant Stories features shorts produced by NYWIFT as part of the Immigrant and FirstGeneration Women’s Media Workshop taught by Third World Newsreel and From Nowhere by Kate Ballen (Screenwriter/ Producer) and Matthew Newton (Director/ Screenwriter/Producer). Immigrant and First Generation Women’s Media Production Workshop Films are three shorts made by 16 women who met for the...
READ MOREStyle Workshop: How to be Wardrobe Ready for Your Life with Andrea Claster Greenspan
Your appearance introduces you before you even speak. Within five seconds you make an impression that conveys your unique value, your style, relevance, influence and power. These impressions have an enormous impact on your personal and professional success. How do you create the impression you want to make? Join Image Consultant Andrea Claster Greenspan as...
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