After the First Draft - TO GO!
AFD - To Go! Distance Ed Package
After the First Draft - TO GO!
This package contains the distilled wisdom of fifteen successful screenwriters, producers, agents, funders, and development executives with advice for you on the nuts and bolts of screenwriting in Canada and beyond.
The practical aspects of your career are not usually the first passion of aspiring or even established screenwriters. Jokes are made about our self-loathing and ineptitude with money – if you don’t know what I’m talking about, bless yourself -- but why haven’t you seen Adaptation? Understanding something of the screenwriting business can make the difference between earning a living at something you love, and lining your basement walls with brilliant but unread scripts. How do you set up a company? Find an agent you can rely on? Get a producer to return your phone calls? Write off that research trip to Kamloops or the pajamas you work in on your income tax? This DVD and workbook will tell you how. Never again will you be embarrassed by your ignorance of pari passu or pro rata, or your inability to hang up on someone.
This is the packaged version of our live five-part After the First Draft course offered in May 2003. After the First Draft has developed through eight incarnations since 1994. Many thanks to producer Sharon McGowan, who organized the first course; filmmaker Penny Wheelwright, who developed it over several years; screenwriter and web diva Kat Montagu, who produced the 2003 offering and put together this package.