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Greetings, fellow filmmakers!

The RIFC Educational Program is gearing up! We're drawing together
great instructors, locations, funding and equipment, to give our local
actors and filmmakers the kind of learning opportunities that they can
really use. Our focus is on hands-on training wherever possible, and
instruction by industry professionals who have the experience to lead us
forward.

We've done our best to incorporate everyone's ideas to create a truly
helpful course catalog, and now we'd love your feedback! Please take our
RIFC Classes Survey --let us know what you think of our ideas, and let
us know your own! It's a bit long, but if you fill out the survey
(reasonably) completely, there's a nice 'thank you' offer at the end.
Please take a little time to help us create the classes that you really
want to take!

Please take the RIFC Classes Survey at:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=cI7hbz50k866WxadM9nDRg_3d_3d
Although our official launch will come with the new year, we've got
some instructors ready and raring to go, so we're rolling out a few
classes ahead of our launch. First up is a great screenwriting class
with award-winning, script-selling Jenn Dlugos (see below). We hope
you'll join us! There's lots more coming, so watch this space, and keep
your eye on our new RIFC Education page to get the latest.

Thanks in advance, and please feel free to contact me directly with any
ideas or input you may have.
Best and brightest,
--CAT
Cat Hainfeld, your runnin'-n-gunnin' RIFC Educational Program Director
catamundo@gmail.com
www.cathainfeld.com

The Rhode Island Film Collaborative (RIFC) presents:

From Your Head to the Screen:
Writing a Winning Screenplay
Instructor: Jenn Dlugos

Everyone at some time or another has had an idea and said, "That would
make a good movie!" This class is for anyone who dreams of making that
dream a reality. The class will teach students how to make their idea
marketable before they even write a word, craft compelling characters
and dialogue, follow proper screenplay format, and make use of the
advantages of a visual medium when crafting their story. The students
will craft the Pitch-perfect one-minute pitch, and learn all the routes
to get their script produced including the studio system, the indie
market, and producing it themselves.

5 Mondays, 7-10pm, $225
Nov 16, 2009 through Dec 14, 2009
Classes held at Perishable Theatre, 95 Empire St, Providence RI (map)

Jenn Dlugos is an award-winning screenwriter, winning awards for six
screenplays (two shorts, four features) including the Francis Ford
Coppola's American Zoetrope Competition, the Rhode Island International
Film Festival, the Twin Rivers Media Festival, The Vine Entertainment
Film Festival, the Kids First! film festival, the Feel Good Film
Festival, The Beverly Hills Film Festival and the NYCMIDNIGHT
Screenwriting Challenge. She was the screenwriter for the short film The
Pitch for the 2007 Providence 48 Hour Film Project. The film won four
awards, including 2nd Runner-up for Best of Providence, Audience
Favorite and Best Twist Ending.

Her screenplay The Last Promise of Giles Corey is contracted by
Firesite Films for their Historic Haunts & Legends of America series,
and she is the screenwriter for Big Hope Films, a charity which helps
disabled children realize their dream of making a film. Most recently, a
producer in Seattle acquired the rights to her screenplay Followed, and
she is making her documentary directing debut with a humorous
documentary There She Is, Mrs. Massachusetts, which finished filming in
Spring of 2009.

Her edgy humor won her the Shock Your Mama! humor writing competition,
and she was recently published by Travelers' Tales in the book, Whose
Panties Are These? and Chicken Soup for the Soul. In 2000, she published
her first book, How to Survive a Small Town Without Being Trampled by a
Cow.