Workshop Information

Continuing Education at Hunter College is pleased to offer this exciting new workshop designed for individuals who have already written a feature length of a screenplay or who have an idea and a short description for a screenplay that they want to write, and desire to work with an experienced, successful screenwriter. This course will stress fundamental writing techniques including screenplay structure, character development, dialogue, theme, style and tone. Students must budget daily and weekend hours to write. Limited to 12 students. Please submit the screenplay you wish to rewrite or a short description of the screenplay you wish to write to ce@hunter.cuny.edu

Fee:  $4500
Wednesdays 4:30-7:30pm
March 9- May 4, 2011 (skipping November 24)
Register online or call 212-650-3850.

Alan Trustman

Alan Trustman is a veteran Hollywood screenwriter whose credits include "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), "Bullitt" (1968) and "They Call Me Mister Tibbs!" (1970).  He was awarded the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allen Poe best screenplay award for "Bullitt".  Trustman is credited with several other screenplays and recently published his novelized screenplays "Twenty-Two Lovers" and "The Judas Prophecy".

Trustman is a Member of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has contributed to numerous television and film projects and is a mentor to the new generation of screenwriters with his truth-telling "The Screenplay Sell" and his teaching.  He has taught screenwriting at Harvard College, the NYU Graduate School of Film and Television, Phillips Exeter Academy, Escuela Internationale de Cinema y TV in Havana (legally, he got the necessary Treasury permission) and most recently at the University of Miami Graduate School of Communications where he will return in Spring 2011.