Attitude vs. Gratitude: Strategies for Securing an Agent

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Richard Walter is the prime broker for one of Hollywood's hottest new commodities... Student writers... A demanding taskmaster, with a sure eye for both dramatic coherence and a good sell. Wall Street Journal. Among the many myths about Hollywood, most common is the notion that its hard to get an agent to read your script. In fact, its easy. It requires no connections. All it takes is a smart query letter. Participants are invited to bring a query letter if they have one. We will present the rules for writing the perfect query. And we will discuss other strategies regarding the acquisition of representation. RICHARD WALTER has been professor and chairman of UCLAs screenwriting program for 25 years. His students have written Tears of the Sun, Jurassic Park I, II, III, A View from the Top, Spider-Man, Real Women Have Curves, About Schmidt, Road to Perdition, Kangaroo Jack, The Sum of All Fears, Men in Black, Face/Off, Charlies Angels, Mission Impossible, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Terminal, and many more. He was a STAR Speaker of Screenwriting Expo 2.