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Tallgrass Filmmakers Lab presents a Bluecat Screenwriting Workshop with award-winning scribe Gordy Hoffman

Wichita, KANSAS — Gordy HoffmanTallgrass Filmmakers Lab, the education arm of the Tallgrass Film Association, presents a screenwriting workshop with Gordy Hoffman, the Sundance award-winning writer/director (LOVE LIZA, A COAT OF SNOW) and founder of the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, from 9a.m.-6p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 16 at Rock Island Studios, 338 N. Mead.

“As a proud alumnus of the University of Kansas, I have felt a profound connection with Kansas throughout my entire professional life as an artist,” said Hoffman. “I'm truly excited about furthering a kinship to screenwriters in Wichita and hope to build a foundation on which we can develop stories and make movies in and around Kansas for years to come."

About Gordy Hoffman

Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival for LOVE LIZA (starring his brother Philip Seymour Hoffman), KU alumn Hoffman made his feature directorial debut with his script, A COAT OF SNOW, which world premiered in 2005 at the Locarno International Film Festival. The movie would go on to win the Domani Vision Award at VisionFest, held at the Tribeca Cinemas.

He has taught screenwriting at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the University of Kansas, as well as led workshops all over North America, Poland and the UK. He recently served as a panelist for the 2010 IFP Script to Screen Conference in New York City and the George Eastman House Film Festival, as well as a judge for the 2010 McKnight Screenwriting Fellowships in Minnesota. He's attached to direct CORDELIA, written by Melissa Brandt, a love story inspired by KING LEAR, and he's writing a comedy about Christmas shopping. Gordy Hoffman founded the BlueCat Screenplay Competition in 1998 and remains its sole judge

About the “The First Ten Pages” Workshop

The ‘First Ten Pages Workshop’ consists of 12 writers each submitting ten pages of a work in progress in advance. The group will go over each work individually, reading the pages aloud, while discussing the specific, unique challenges each writer is facing on the page. This discussion will include the technical aspects of description and dialogue, the depth and reality of the characters, and how the first ten pages reflect where the entire story goes. The intimate, focused interaction with fellow writers in the workshop will provide all with a greater understanding of the work that lies ahead on their screenplay, and more importantly, a detailed sense of how they might develop as writers themselves.

Registration Information

  • Enrollment with 10 pages of screenplay: $95 (space is limited!)
  • Audit Option: Do you want to participate but don’t have any pages to submit? Audit the workshop without submitting written material, which allows you to attend and still participate in the discussion. : $45
  • Click here to enroll!
  • Enrollment discounts apply to Tallgras Film Association members, Tallgrass Film Festival volunteers, college students and Tallgrass Film Festival TallPass holders. Please contact lela@tallgrassfilmfest.com for more information.

For questions specific to the workshop, email bluecatworkshop@bluecatscreenplay.com.