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Mike Farris
Faculty
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Biography
Mike Farris is a literary agent with Farris Literary Agency and an entertainment attorney with the Dallas, Texas, law firm of Tipton Jones. Mike has negotiated numerous sales of his literary clients' movie and television rights to producers and major Hollywood studios.
As a screenwriter, he adapted the award-winning novel Balaam Gimble's Gumption, which was produced as a short film in 2009. His feature screenplay "Live From the Boneyard" is currently being cast by Sweet Revenge Entertainment, and his inspirational family screenplay "Reaching Jordan", based on a true story, is in development with Advocate Pictures.
In collaboration with New York Times best-selling novelist Patrick A. Davis, Mike is co-creator of two television series based upon Davis's novels that are currently under contract to a Los Angeles-based television producer.
In 2009, he collaborated with rodeo cowboy turned actor/director/producer Robert Hinkle to write Hinkle's memoir, Call Me Lucky: A Texan in Hollywood, published in 2009 by the University of Oklahoma Press. In addition to all the above, Mike's novel Kanaka Blues is set for publication this summer by Savant Books.
Screenwriting Symposium Events
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Seminar
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Adaptation: Turning Source Material into a Screenplay
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Seminar Description:
Have you found a good novel youd like to adapt? Where do you start? And what is an adaptation, really?
In this seminar you will learn about the differences between screenplays and other forms of source material. After all, not every good book makes a good movie. Sometimes books have to be bent, and sometimes outright changed beyond recognition, in order to translate to the silver screen. Mike and Pat will walk you through the process of turning that bestseller into a marketable screenplay.
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Writing Cinematically: How to Tell Your Story on the Screen
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Seminar Description:
To make it as a screenwriter, it's not enough just to have a great story. You have to be able to tell that story in a way that is cinematic that not only jumps off the page, but also jumps out at you from the big screen. That means learning the techniques for writing visually, grabbing the reader in the first few pages, revealing character through actions instead of dialogue, proper scene structure, engaging all of the readers senses, and finishing up with a bang. Mike is here to help you with all of that.
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