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Darren Foster
   SCSFE
   Conference Advisor

   Faculty / Staff


Biography
Darren Foster teaches screenwriting at the University of Colorado, Denver and the Colorado Film School. He is the Founder and President of Film Scribe (www.filmscribe.com), a website dedicated to supporting screenwriters worldwide, and the Co-Director of the Screenwriting Contest at the Vail Film Festival (www.vailfilmfestival.org) where he is also a member of the Festival's Advisory Board. Darren has taught at various festivals, conferences and educational institutions nationwide and has been on the faculty of The Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe since 2005.

An active screenwriter, Darren has written more than a hundred screenplays with several under option and/or contract. He is the Owner and President of Film Scribe Productions and the Co-Founder of Serotonin Rising Pictures, LLC. His latest projects include co-writer on Nephilim (www.nephilimthemovie.com) slated for production in Wisconsin in 2009 and writer and co-producer on the film Serotonin Rising (www.serotoninrising.com) currently in hiatus but scheduled to resume production in late 2009. Darren also co-developed the TV pilot Happiness 101 with Tony Perri and Warren Miller Entertainment that is currently being pitched to a variety of networks.

Darren resides in Estes Park, Colorado with his wife, Shana.


Screenwriting Symposium Events
Seminar   Screenplay Formatting: What's In? What's Out?
Seminar Description: Nothing makes a producer discard a script faster than poor formatting. Whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced screenwriter, formatting rules change almost daily and all of us need to keep abreast of what's in, and what's out. In this workshop, we'll cover the latest changes in spec screenplay formatting including slug lines, secondary headers, narrative blocks, camera direction, parentheticals, margins, montages, and so much more.
Friday, May 27        3:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Seminar   Cardboard Characters: How to Avoid Creating One-Dimensional People
Seminar Description: Character development is often the weakest part of most scripts. As writers, we spend so much time developing the concept and story structure that we often forget the characters; who truly are the story. In this workshop, we'll work with character archetypes, arcs, backstory, and flaws. We'll investigate useful tools like character biographies to help develop character interplay and make your characters jump off the page.
Friday, May 27        4:45 PM - 6:00 PM


The Hollywood Connection Events
Seminar   The Pitch Doctor
Seminar Description: Nervous wreck about pitching? Or just need some fine tuning on an ailing pitch? Well, there's one prescription: Go see the Doc. He'll help you tweak that pitch 'til it purrs; or maybe just inject that boost of confidence you needed all along. The office is open, the Doctor is in, and he will see you now.

Note:
Monday, May 30     4:15 PM - 6:30 PM