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Written Words into Moving Pictures: Adapting Literary Works for Film and TV
Friday, March 10, 2023
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
For authors interested in adapting their own work or having it optioned for the screen, or for screenwriters looking to adapt other writers’ material (novels, short stories, magazine and newspaper articles, comic books and graphic novels, etc.), this culturally and racially diverse panel will discuss and dissect the unique and challenging creative requirements of visual storytelling and provide successful strategies for pitching and adapting pre-existing source material for film and television.
Participants
Brian Price is an award-winning screenwriter who’s worked with major studios and independent producers from around the world. He teaches screenwriting at RIT, UCLA, Yale, and Johns Hopkins University, and is the author of Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting (Focal Press).
Samuel W. Gailey is the critically acclaimed author of Deep Winter, hailed by the New York Times as beautifully written. The New York Journal of Books calls his second novel, The Guilt We Carry, the "Breaking Bad" of the book world. His upcoming book, Come Away from Her, was released in the fall of 2022.
Ayn Carrillo-Gailey is a graduate of Harvard and holds a MFA in screenwriting from UCLA Film School. HBOmax recently greenlit a pilot based on her bicultural relationship columns, and the movie adaptation of her memoir Pornology was adapted as the film A Nice Girl Like You in 2020. She is also a book whisperer.
Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning author of the young adult novels Dealing in Dreams, The Education of Margot Sanchez, Never Look Back, We Light Up the Sky, and the middle grade Goldie Vance series. Her novel Never Look Back is slated for an Amazon movie adaptation.
