OPEN CALL and...
invite you to a stimulating panel discussion
The Spirituality of Writing: Our Contemporary Challenge
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Greet @ 7:00pm Program @ 7:30pm Fellowship @ 9:00
Media is a powerful vehicle which influences our society!
Storytelling can have a poignant effect to enlighten inspire entertain and inform!
Guest Panelists
Charles Slocum, assistant executive director of the Writers Guild of America West in the area of strategy and industry research, has worked for the Guild for over twenty years and previously worked at Paramount Pictures in finance and at ABC in audience research.
Mr. Slocum has an MA from Fuller Seminary in Theology and the Arts, an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Slocum is vice chair of Act One and is active at Bel Air Presbyterian Church.
Chris Riley is the director of the Act One Writing Program and a screenwriter whose first film, After The Truth (an award-winning courtroom thriller written with his wife and professional partner, Kathy), sparked international controversy in 1999 when it was released in Germany. Other credits include 25 To Life (dramatic thriller/Touchstone Pictures); The Other White House (political thriller/Sean Connery’s Fountainbridge Films); Aces (action-adventure romance/Paramount Pictures); and a screen adaptation of the book Actual Innocence (Mandalay Television Pictures and the Fox Television Network).
Mr. Riley, a veteran of the Warner Bros. script department, serves as an adjunct professor at John Paul Catholic University in San Diego and is the author of The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style.
Please stay afterwards to get answers to any
questions you may have and enjoy an evening of networking with lite
refreshments
and bring your
business cards for a drawing to win one complimentary script consultation
courtesy of Act One
Note Location:
Pauline Books & Media Centers
3908 Sepulveda Boulevard, Culver City
(next to the 405
Freeway (south of 10) between Venice and Washington)
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Suggested Donation $5.00
The Catholic Media Group of Southern California
The Catholic Communicators of Southern California and Open Call
with the Partnership for Spirituality & Film
invite YOU to the
CATHOLIC FILM RETREAT AT SEA
Theme: Melting Pots: Food & Family
Film Slate includes:
“What’s Cooking?” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” & more
Film Directors
Rev. Ron Schmidt, SJ, Hope Productions, Los Angeles
Sr. Rose Pacatte, FSP, Pauline Center for Media
Studies, Los Angeles
Frank Frost, Frank Frost Productions, Washington, DC
Friday, October 10 to Monday, October 13, 2008
Long Beach – Ensenada, Mexico – Long Beach
For Retreat price info, questions & rsvp’s
Nanciann 714-394-4989 ~ nanciannh@hotmail.com
The first refundable deposit of $25 due April 19th
Open Call (Catholic based - Everyone is welcome)
c/o Paulist Productions
PO Box 1057
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
(818) 761-0864
CONTACT: Karen Beatton
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Open Call brings together creative and business professionals in the entertainment community seeking a relationship between spirituality and their work in the industry. Open Call is rooted in the Catholic tradition and encourages spiritual growth from that perspective through retreats and evening events. Experiences of prayer and an opportunity to network are part of every get-together!