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The class in January 2010 will be similar to this class.
Literary Agents, Managers
& Producers Meetings
Focusing on Selling a Spec Script
January 30 to January 31, 2009
(Friday & Saturday)
Beverly Hills, California
Location & Logistics
Limited to 75 students
Sold Out
Meet over 20 Hollywood Insiders for the bargain rate of $8 per speaker!
Classes will begin with a panel and then break out into tables allowing access to speakers in an informal setting encouraging students to get unprecedented access to Hollywood insiders.
Check out a quick glimpse of this past year's event on youtube.
How to Sell a Spec Script, meeting with Literary Agents, Managers, Attorneys and producers
Friday, January 30
Top Agents have confirmed their attendance
The following companies have confirmed including William Morris, Paradigm, Metropolitan, and tentatively ICM, CAA, Endeavor, APA and Summit. Other confirmed guests include Ken Sherman, David Warden, Jeff Goldberg, Graup Entertainment, Sheree Guitar, Robyn Messinger, Jeff Ross Entertainment, Michael Hamilburg, Paul Levine, Steven Rice, Lloyd Robinson, Michael Lewis, The Bauer Company and Evolution.
Meeting agents who are open to new writers and give an educational overview of the industry. Past guests have included CAA, ICM, William Morris, Endeavor, Gersh, Paradigm, Innovative, David Warden, Ken Sherman, Benderspink, Pitt Group, Bauer Company, Ensemble, Circle of Confusion, Underground, Tami Lynn, Paul Levine, Pat Quinn, Ryan Saul, Bruce Bartlett, Michael Hamilberg, Fred Rice, David Freedman, Charlotte Gusay, Mary Moore, Jon Brown, and many more.
S P E C I A L . E V E N T
Evening with Agents, Friday, January 30, 2009 (5 pm to 8 pm) - SOLD OUT
Panel of agents followed by dinner with agents. Confirmed guests include Willliam Morris, Paradigm, Sherman Agency and Attorney William Brown. Tentative guests include ICM and Gersh.
(dinner is required and an extra fee, please bring $30 cash)
Networking with Feature Film Producers, Saturday, January 31
Many people would rather go directly to the producer rather than rely and wait for obtaining an agent or manager which is one of the hardest tasks is to obtain representation. Still, others want to work with producers while having an agent in order to increase their chances of getting their film produced. This will offer you the opportunity to seize the opportunity of meeting with working professionals who make top films.
Sign up before this class fills up.
This year's guests include:
Mark Harris (Crash)
Howard Rosenman (Milk, Family Man, Father of the Bride)
Dan Paulson (Passenger 57)
Emmett/Furla (88 Minutes)
Gary Goldman (Pretty Woman)
Yari Film Group (Crash)
Walden Media (Journey to the Center of the Earth)
Michael Pierce (the Cooler)
Persistant (Southland Tales)
Landscape Entertainment (John Tucker Must Die)
Rhino Films (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
and we plan to add many more.
Past guests have included Emmet/Furla (Righteous Kill), Kimmel Entertainment (Flight 93), Gold Circle (My Big Fat Wedding), Groundswell (Sideways), Yari Films (Crash), Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), Sparkler Entertainment (National Treasure 2), Stone Village Pictures (The Human Stain, Penelope), Dana Lustig (Brick), Alex Rose Productions (Norma Rae), Sunset Pictures (Cattle Call), and many more.
Recommended Budget Hotels
Half Moon Motel $50/night
More information on the upcoming classes coming soon.
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2010 Class will be similar to this ...
Optional Event
Other optional weekend activities include Memorabilia Show on Saturday and Sunday in Burbank ($20/day). This is an opportunity to meet celebrities who were famous about 10 to 20 years ago. These celebrities tend to be ripe for movie roles in independent films. Attaching an actor to your film can assist in making it happen.
3 Days at 3 Studios
(Paramount/Raleigh Studios, Universal Studios, Fox Studios)
Post Expo Classes
(immediately following the Screenwriting Expo)
This class is limited to 30 students
This class sells out every year so please register immediately
October 19-21, 2009
This class provides the rare opportunity to go on to major studio lots and meet with producers and development executives. You can get the opportunity to meet with studio executives. At the end of each session there will be an envelope handed to each person with your one-sheet and from there the executive can contact you.
Since we are going to studios, then space is limited and be sure to let us know your name on your driver's license and rather than the name you use for the film business.
We plan on having 5 guests a day although we will invite approximately 7 guests a day.
The cost is approximately $20 per guest which is extremely reasonable.
Session at Paramount/Raleigh Studios
Monday, October 19, 2009**
The following are list of invited guests*:
Graham Kaye, President, CP Productions (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days)
di Bonaventura Films (Gi Joe, Transformers)
Robert Evans Company (The Godfather, Chinatown)
Blue Star Entertainment (Role Models)
Broadway Video Entertainment (Baby Mama, Tommy Boy)
Interscope/Shady/Aftermath Films (Get Rich or Die Trying, 8 Mile)
and other guests from the lot
Session at Universal Studios
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Jerry Weintraub Productions (Ocean's Eleven-Thirteen, Karate Kid 1-4)
DeLine Pictures (I Love You, Man; Observe & Report, The Italian Job)
Village Roadshow (The Matrix, Happy Feet, Gran Torino, Nights in
Rodanthe)
Joel Schumacher Productions (Batman & Robin, The Number 23)
Karz Entertainment (Good Luck Chuck, Model Behavior)
Maple Shade production (A Walk to Remember, Catwoman)
and other guests from the lot
Session at Disney Studios
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Scott Free Productions (Assissination of Jesse James, Thelma & Louise, Numb3rs (TV))
Offspring Entertainment (17 Again, Bedtime Stories, Hairspray)
Gunn Films (Race to Witch Mountain, College Roadtrip)
Farrell Paura Productions (Stolen Identity, TV- Playing it Straight)
Martin Chase Productions (Princess Diaries, TV-Cinderella)
and other guests from the lot.
Studios are subject to change based on availability.
Registration
3 Days at 3 Studios, October 19-21, 2009 . . . . . . . . . .$395
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Meetings with Studio Development Executives and Pitching
Thursday, January 28 to Friday, January 29, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010 (optional Celebrity Dinner)
Warner Bros Studio and Adjacent to Sony Studios
Culver City and Burbank, California
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
Click here for registration
This class provides one of the biggest bangs for the buck where you can meet a lot of studio producers with a small investment of time and money. For those starting out, these guests will provide insight into Hollywood and for those experienced writers and filmmakers, these guests will expand your Hollywood contacts.
In addition to meeting with hard to reach studio development executives, you will get an opportunity to hear Hollywood professionals provide honest pitching feedback so that you can hone your pitch and script so that it may be much easier to sell.
This class differs from our executive class because the executive class is limited to 20 students. In the less expensive classes then junior level executives will be included as speakers.
As an extra bonus, we may have a few studio executives attend.
We are expecting 15 to 20+ speakers during the two day class with an increase in guests based on the number of students enrolled in the class.
January 28, 2010, Warner Bros Studio Plaza
The following production companies have been invited to the Sherwood Oaks event and many companies have attended in the past. We have confirmations from many of these companies.
Invited Companies include:
Kevin McCormick, former, WB President of Productions
Warner Premiere VP of Productions
Warner Bros Theater Ventures, VP Development
Freemantle Medial (Reality Shows such as American Idol)
Legendary Pictures (Dark Knight)
Green Hat Films (Hangover)
Gerber Pictures (Gran Torino)/Weintraub Productions (Oceans 11-13)
Steve Carell's Productions, Carousel Productions (Civil War Project)
Silver Pictures (Sherlock Holmes, Matrix, Lethal Weapon)
Wigram Productions (Harry Potter)
Weed Road Pictures (Hancock, I am Legend, Mr. and Mrs. Smith)
De Line Pictures (I Love You, Man)
Lin Pictures (Sherlock Holmes)
January 29, 2010, Adjacent to Sony Studios (Culver City)
Los Angeles Meeting and Event Center
Morning Session will include a Unique Detailed Pitching Feedback Panel of renowned group of Producers, Agents and professionals of 3 to 5 guests to be chosen from Christopher Lockhardt (WE-William Morris-Endeavor Agency),
Jonathan Krane (Face Off)
Bo Zenga (Scary Movie)
David Warden (agent)
Susan Johnston (has optioned many of Sherwood Oaks students scripts)
Mark Travis (director)
Members of the audience will be chosen to present to this panel where these professionals will go into three to five minute detail on how to improve your pitch and your screenplay to ensure that it could be sold.
Late Morning/Afternoon Sessions
Phoenix Productions (Shutter Island)
Laurence Mark Productions (Julie and Julia, I, Robot, Dreamgirls)
Red Wagon (Gladiator, Stuart Little, Hollow Man, Memoirs of a Geisha)
Escape Artists (Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, Pursuit of Happiness)
Outlaw Productions (Santa Clause, Training Day)
Kaplan-Perrone Entertainment (You, Me and Dupree, Knowing)
ScreenGems, low budget producer/distributor, 711 films (The Ring, Departed, Resident Evil)
Circle of Confusion, 13 films in production
Brief Pitching Panel Session - Extra Session Added
People out of the audience will pitch their logline to the panel of experts publicly and these experts will provide a quick critique (yes, like it because or no, don't like it because) or actually interest in reviewing and possibly optioning the screenplay. Members of the audience will be chosen based on those who have not be chosen earlier in the day. This pitching feedback format session was used at the Expo last October to a sold out audience with standing room only. Not one person left the room and people were sitting on the floor in order to accomodate the overflow. Pitching sessions can costs hundreds of dollars but both the morning and afternoon pitching sessions are included in your admission. The panel will include both Sony development executives and independent producers.
Speakers will include:
Robert Kosberg (pitching king, 12 Monkeys)
Alex Rose (Overboard, Norma Rae, Frankie & Johnny)
Ed Wang, Gittes Production (About Schmidt)
Michael Glassman, Sr VP, Outlaw Productions (Leatherheads, Santa Clause, Breach)
Pitching Information
No one is forced to pitch. You can always pass on pitching but we encourage you to express your ideas so we can improve them so everyone can learn. The free pitching is to the entire panel and classroom. There is no private or 1 on 1 pitching. Getting to personally meet and compliment the speakers is strongly encouraged. We will select pitches based on those either volunteer and those who have paid for two full days.
*All guests are working Hollywood professionals and we cannot guarantee attendance
Optional
Friday, January 29, 2010
4:30 to 5:30 pm
Taped Screenwriting Interviews
Attend the famed Celebrity Dinner (Director's Guild Dinner)
Saturday, January 30, 2010
SOLD OUT
Check out last year's photo of students with Josh Brolin. We also meet numerous of celebrities including famed writer-director, Joel Coen (Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men); director, Jay Roach (Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers), and Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire)
We cannot guarantee whom or how many celebrities you will meet. These celebrities will depend on which movies get nominated. Usually last year's director will attend along with this year's nominated director and lead actors. For example, it appears that Up In the Air may be nominated and as a result, George Clooney may attend. George Clooney has spoken to Sherwood Oaks students before and so has Jason Reitman, the director of this film.
R E G I S T R A T I O N
Development Exec Class - Thursday to Friday, January 28 to 29, 2010 . . . . . . . . $245*
Friday, January 29, 2010 across from Sony Studios
Class with Sony Producers and Pitching - Friday, January 29, 2010 . .
$125
Check on-site registration below
Development Exec Class and Celebrity Dinner - January 28 to 30, 2010 . . . . $495
Walk-In Registration available Friday, January 29, 2010
Los Angeles Meeting and Event Center
10601 W. Washington
Northeast corner, cross-street: Overland
310-280-9196
Across from Sony Studios
$125 on-site registration
Daily Schedule
Registration begins at 8:30 am
Class begins at 9 am
Lunch is on your own 12:30 pm to 2 pm
We recommend networking during this time also
Accomodations
(be sure to mention Sherwood Oaks)
Culver Hotel (next to Sony Studios)
only $129/night (mention SOCO to get this rate)
You can email the hotel at sharde@culverhotel.com to get this rate
Special rate no longer available, contact hotel for best rate or use AAA discount
Let us know that you are staying here, so we can see about carpooling or renting a van on Thursday to get to Warner Bros
Studios
We are going on the studio lot on Thursday, January 28, 2010, please bring a valid ID (driver's license or passport) and let us know what your name is on this id, if it different than your Paypal account.
Starts one day earlier
Meetings with Literary Agents & Managers
Close Encounter Class (limited enrollment)
Mobile Class
April 20 to 22, 2010 plus check out additional day
Tuesday to Thursday
9 to 5 pm
Locations: Century City, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood
Pre-Meeting, Feeback and Preparation
Monday, April 19, 2010
Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, CA . 7:00 pm
Add-on Day for Pitching to Agents and Managers
April 23, 2010
This class is our most popular and has sold out for the past 4 years!
Past Guests
Invited guests
Registration
BACKGROUND
Most writers would be fortunate enough just to get even one agent on the phone to talk about anything, due to the foreboding wall of gatekeepers, but with Sherwood Oaks, students get an opportunity to meet numerous agents and manager. This is an event that is very special and is not available anywhere else. The goal of this class is to obliterate that wall and provide extraordinary access to as many agents, managers, and attorneys as possible in a very short number of days.
And of course since all writers will get an opportunity to talk to each and every guest and give them material, there is always the possibility of gaining representation through a connection made during the sessions although it usually takes years and several classes before a connection is made. What we can guarantee is that this class will be of great assistance in eventually finding representation. Every class, at least one to two students gain representation.
Sherwood Oaks is a unique school that allows students to give agents, managers and attorneys material. Most schools, seminars, expos will abhor any of their students from giving any material to a professional guest since they are afraid of driving away guests and not having them come back. Sherwood Oaks encourages students to give one sheets to guests.
Confirmed Guests
William Morris-Endeavor (WE)
ICM
Paradigm
Gersh
APA
Brian Sher (Category 5), Hitch
Barry Krost Management
Intellectual Property Group
(Larry Becsey's company, Paul Haggis' manager)
Code Entertainment
Madhatter Entertainment
H2F Entertainment
Ensemble Entertainment
Schacter Entertainment
Victoria Wisdom
Paul Levine
David Warden
Suite A Entertainment
Sheree Guitar Entertainment
Other guests invited.
Past Guests
In the past three years, we have had the following literary agents and managers including
ICM
Endeavor
William Morris
CAA
UTA
Innovative
Paradigm
Metropolitan
Gersh
Summit Entertainment
Marty Blumenthal
Paul Levine
Marc Pritchard
Neal Stevens
David Warden
Suite A Entertainment
Ken Sherman
Jeff Graup from Graup Entertainment
Stuart Berton
Micheal Lewis
Mitch Stein
Dina of Bicoastal Agency
Benderspink
Deborah Masterson (WorkingArtist Mmgt Company)
Chris Ryan (Inside Entertainment)
Michele Wallerstein
Victoria Wisdom
Bettina Viviano
Lou Pitt Company
Steve Crawford (Nine Yards Mgmt)
Adam Finer (Arpil Entertainment)
Barbara Alexander (Media Artist Group)
Jon Brown (Ensemble)
Creative Convergence
Kaplan-Perone
Evolution
Underground Circle of Confusion
Tammy Lynn
It Company
Stephanie Hurkos
For example, Brian Sher from ICM represents the writer for Hitch and many more million-dollar+ spec scripts writers and spoke three times out of the last four years. Also, Bettina Viviano, David Warden, Creative Convergence and many others now represent our former students.
Many students gain representation from this class or had their scripts optioned.
Invited Guests
We are invited guests from CAA, ICM, Gersh, Partos Agency, Underground Management, Benderspink and many more from the above past guest list.
We average between 15 to 20 agents and managers per class with the best student to working Hollywood professional ratio for the price in the industry with an excellent track record of our students getting paid writing assignments and succeeding in the film business.
Pitching to Agents and Managers
Friday, April 23, 2010
We did a similar form of this in our January class and was so well received that we are doing a more intimate version of pitching. Most private pitching sessions cost $50 for 5 minutes. In this class, table pitching is encouraged. Each table is limited to approximately 8 students with an agent or manager. There will be at least 3 different table sessions where each student can pitch his/her log-line to an agent or manager. This class is limited to 30 students. In addition, you do not have to sign up for the Agent class to get this informative and career crucial day.
Registration
Agents and Managers Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $595 495
Closed - Sold Out
For Daily Registration, please email
Additional Add-On Day
Friday, April 23, 2010
Pitching to Agents and Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $195
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Information and guest names will be updated as we get closer to the event. Final list of guests will be given to attendees. Our classes get great reviews, check out our testimonials.
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