SU’s ScreenTalk Radio

ScreenTalk Show #4: Lew Hunter

This week’s special guest is screenwriter and former Director of Motion Pictures for TV Mini-Series for NBC, Lew Hunter. Credits include “The Execution of Private Slovak,” “Born Innocent,” “The Law,” “The Red Badge of Courage” and “Centennial,” as well as his classic book “The Secrets of Screenwriting”. His book, Screenwriting 434 is consider to be one of the best books ever written about screenwriting. Please join us for the show:

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ScreenTalk Show #3: William M. Akers

Special Guest: Professional screenwriter William M. Akers, author of Your Screenplay Sucks!: 100 Ways to Make It Great

From the Publisher: All beginning screenwriters make the same mistakes. Because nobody in Hollywood will give your screenplay a second chance, it better be perfect the first time out. Screenplay book after screenplay book will tell you how to “find your inner structure…” but which screenwriting books tell you not to have character names that rhyme? Your Screenplay Sucks! is a comprehensive checklist of fatal errors most screenwriters make…

“A book about screenwriting that reads like a good screenplay. It is so full of great stories, examples and advice that I couldn’t put it down.”- Tom Schulman, Academy Award winning Screenwriter: Dead Poets Society, Honey I Shrunk The Kids, What About Bob?

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ScreenTalk Show #2: Hal Ackerman

Hal Ackerman has been on the faculty of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television for the past twenty-two years and is currently co-chair of the screenwriting program. Among his close mentees are Sacha Gervasi, Pamela Gray, Scott Kosar, Nicholas Griffin and many others.

His book Write Screenplays That Sell…The Ackerman Way is now in its third printing and is becoming the text of choice in a growing number of screenwriting programs around the country.

Ackerman has had numerous short stories published in literary journals over the past two years, including “New Millennium Writing,” “The Pinch,” “Words and Pictures,” “Southeast Review” and “Passages.”

His short story, “Roof Garden” just won the Warren Adler 2008 award for fiction and is published by Kindle. “Alfalfa” was included in the 2006 anthology “I Wanna Be Sedated…30 Writers on Parenting Teenagers.” Among the twenty-nine “other writers” were Louise Erdrich, Dave Barry, Anna Quindlen, Roz Chast, and Barbara Kingsolver. “Sweet Day” is just out on HarperCollins Publishers Digital Media Cafe read by Academy Award nominee Robert Forster.

Ackerman has sold material to all the networks and major studios. His play, “Testosterone: How Prostate Cancer Made a Man of Me,” which just concluded its premier theatrical run in Santa Monica, CA, won the William Saroyan Centennial Award for drama and is currently under option for a Television movie.

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ScreenTalk Show #1

ScreenwritersUtopia is proud to announce with the coming year a new feature, “SU’s ScreenTalk” radio program broadcast via BlogTalkRadio with a potential audience of millions! Er, yeah right.

Devin (M.) Watson and myself (Chris) will be the show’s hosts, we will cover all sorts of topics related to screenwriting, movies, and Hollywood.

For those of you who do not know, Devin Martin Watson is a professional screenwriter with his first film TENEBROUS a.k.a “The Cursed” (the scum sucking producers changed the name) due to be released by Spring 2009.

As for myself, I am Chris Wehner and I am an author and professional screenwriter. Currently my screenplay, EL CAMINO, is in pre-production. Also my book, Screenwriting on the Internet: Researching, Writing & Selling Your Script on the Web was a Top Seller at The Writer’s Store.

Anyway, we will feature How To Tips, Marketing Advice, Share our Knowledge, and hold interviews with other professional screenwriters.

Our first show: 9pm MST (8pm LA time), January 14, 2009 will feature an Academy Award Nominee and much more!.

You can access the show via this link or by listening below >