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Jason Mirch is a feature film, television, branded entertainment, and digital content producer and executive with over 15 years of experience. Most recently, he produced a 3D animated feature film starring Jacob Tremblay, Christopher Lloyd, Mel Brooks, Kenan Thompson, and Carol Kane. Mirch was the Head of feature and television development at Image Nation, a finance and production company based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. There, he supervised the Image Nation contributions in the development of Flight, The Help, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Contagion, Careful What You Wish For, Ghost Rider 2, Midnight Sun, and 100 Foot Journey. Prior to his work at Image Nation, Mirch was Co-Head of Development at Zadan/Meron Productions (Chicago, Footloose, The Bucket List) where he was actively involved in developing a slate of feature film projects for New Line, Paramount, Summit Ent., and CBS/Paramount. He also developed and sold television projects and mini-series to CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC, and Lifetime. He has lectured on all areas of filmmaking, speaking on panels at the Producers Guild of America, the Harvard Screenwriting Group, American Film Market, University of Southern California Film School, as well as several international film festivals and markets. In addition, he has consulted brands, including Burberry and Creative Artists Agency, on the expansion of their operations into emerging markets in the Middle East and Asia. Mirch graduated Cum Laude from Chapman University’s School of Film and Television, where he received a B.F.A., in Film Production, with an emphasis in Writing and Directing. He was mentored by Academy Award Winning Writer/Director David S. Ward, in the spring of 2004, and is the winner of Chapman University Student Filmmaker Award, for Best Director for his film Ally. Full Bio »
Using the films Annihilation, Arrival, Avatar, Legion, and Mad Max: Fury Road as examples, we'll be discussing and describing visually original concepts.
Writing complex action set pieces and using scene description in world building can be difficult for a storyteller. Using examples from contemporary films, we will examine how the screenwriters effectively tackle this style.
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We're back in the Writers Room this afternoon for The Breakdown Webcast with Matt Ember! Matt Ember is a writer/producer who has worked on over 20 feature films and television shows including THE CONNERS on ABC, THE WAR WITH GRANDPA with Robert Deniro, GET SMART with Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway and FAILURE TO LAUNCH with Matthew McConaghey and Sarah Jessica Parker and many more.
We're back in the Writers Room this afternoon for The Breakdown Webcast with Laura Woodworth. With 15+ years of award-winning television and film production experience, Laura Woodworth is the Development Executive at Cooke Media Group, a production company based in Burbank, California which has produced media programming in nearly 60 countries around the world, helping some of the largest nonprofit organizations and leaders in the world use the media to tell their story in a changing and disrupted culture. A writer-producer-director, Laura’s production experience extends to award-winning film and television, radio and new media. Laura was directly involved in a television show which won 3 Regional Emmy Awards and 65 Telly Awards. Her professional strengths include project management, content development, public and media relations and traditional as well as digital marketing. Laura did her postgraduate work in UCLA’s Professional Program in Producing Film and Television. She is a member of the Alliance of Women Directors in Los Angeles.
If you hang a gun on the wall in the first act, it better go off. In this webast, we took a look at the "Chekhov's guns" in the Winchester of Shaun of the Dead, the rock hammer in Shawshank, the coins in In Bruge, and more!
We're back in the Writers Room for The Breakdown Webcast: Healthy Mindset Summer Series - Special Guest Professional Certified Coach & Therapist Sarah Brokaw on Being "Present" and Reframing This is the first in a Summer Series! You will learn from Sarah who, as a coach, works collaboratively with the client on expanding his/her awareness and clarifying his/her thoughts through the use of reframing language.
Rich "RB" Botto is a producer, writer, and actor himself, and he and Jason have been on both sides of the table of hundreds of General Meetings. During this webcast, RB and Jason discuss how screenwriters should approach a general meeting, how to prepare for a general meeting, what to expect once you are in the room, and how to follow up so the first meeting turns into another meeting. This is essential information that every writer should be aware of!
We're back in the Writers Room this afternoon for The Breakdown Webcast with Film & Television Writer, Ashley Miller!