I'm new to the site and was just wondering where and when I can start attending screenplay writers meetings preferly in the eastside of the valley. I understand previous meetings where held at Borders and Tempe Market Place on various week nights.
Hi Richard,
I'm the education director of IFP. Jon Bonnell is the director of the screenwriters' activities. Most regular meetings are toward the beginning of each month, so you missed July activity. You can go to http://ifpphx.org/ to see August's schedule. It's right there in the middle column of the homepage.
--Joe G.
The monthly meetings (not the table read, but the group meeting) are always at the IFP offices.
Go down to the bottom of that event's individual page: http://www.ifp.org/calendar/eventitem.php?id=1777
...and the address and map link are there.
Monthly meetings are the first Monday of every month (barring holidays) 7:00PM to 9:00PM at the IFP Offices on 7th Ave and McDowell (Suite 250). The weekly table reads are Wednesday's (again barring holidays) 7:00PM at the Borders at Tempe Marketplace.
There are also the weekly table reads, the meetings you heard about that used to be at Borders in Mesa and are now held at the Barnes & Noble at Tempe Marketplace. These meetings are every Wednesday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and we will run over that time limit if there are enough pages to read. Each attendee that wishes may bring 10 pages of a script to be read by the whole group, each character voiced by a different person, narration, the whole shabang. Everyone gives constructive feedback afterwards. It's a great motivational, educational, and constructive feedback tool. Don't have pages to be read or want pages read (at first ;-), that's fine too, just come and read and feedback and network with the other screenwriters.
WINNER OF THE 2009 ARIZONA THESPIAN FESTIVAL SHORT FILM AWARD:
A poetic metaphor symbolizing the search for our voice as individuals; to find our individual, free-standing, unique voice in life, and in the world; our sole voice.
My name is Cranston Forte and my company is cRcmaDDLuv. (www.crcmaddluv.com)
I am producing and directing a feature film locally here in Phoenix. I am looking for someone with experience in developing and building a business plan, budget and sche...
The bootcamp of filmmaking. Come in with nothing, leave with the best tips and tricks to make a film. Topics covered include: Pre-production and planning, essential cinematography for great shots, lighting essentials, basic audio techniques, editi...
Open Discussion Night: Bring your questions, favorite books, favorite references, etc. This is the night to get answers to your questions about writing for film. Free.
For those of us that play on the darker side of filmmaking in the desert. Chat, discuss, ask questions... you know, network. You never know where you next corpse will come from. AZ was good enough for Hitchcock...