Vancouver: Screenwriting guru shares his wisdom, Syd Field offers advice culled from over four decades in Hollywood
The Screenwriters Summit
Where: Grand Ballroom, Hyatt Hotel, 655 Burrard St.
When: Saturday and Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Tickets: $395, call 1-800-814-0544
Info: www.ScreenwritersSummit.com
Everybody seems to have written a screenplay. And odds are they’ve picked up Syd Field’s book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting, to find out just exactly how it’s done.
More than a million copies of the book have been sold since it was released in 1979.
“I think in the first five months we went through three printings,” said Field, 64. “The publisher, Dell, was astounded. Since that time, I think the book has gone through 40 printings. We’re in 42 languages around the world, [and] it’s used in 400-some-odd colleges and universities around the U.S.
“It literally took off, because people wanted to know how to, and what they have to do, in order to write a screenplay.”
On Saturday and Sunday, they’ll be able to get his advice in person. Field will be joining fellow screenwriting gurus Linda Seger, John Truby and Michael Hauge for a “Screenwriting Summit” in the Grand Ballroom of the Hyatt Hotel.
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