SAVE THE DATES

The AWG presents screenwriters, novelists, agents, producers, script doctors, and other industry professionals at free meetings on the first Saturday of the month.

Congratulations to
newly-elected AWG
President, Colin
Brownlie. 

Colin will announce his
slate of board nominees
on January 3.

Saturday, January 3
Shawn Tolleson
Design a Breakthrough 2009!

Most of us have goals we want to accomplish in the coming year. We have new year’s resolutions, dreams, and practical results we want to create.

One mistake people often make is that they don't put in place a meaningful and effective structure for fulfillment - literally, a structure to support the accomplishment of their dreams and goals.

Join Shawn Tolleson, filmmaker and career strategist, in a workshop on designing a breakthrough 2009. She has coached writers to securing TV staff writing jobs, directors to attaching star actors to their projects, and producers to securing financing and enrolling high-level producing partners for their projects, to name just a few accomplishments.

Come prepared to share the goals you are passionate about and you’ll leave with tangible tools for accomplishing them!

Shawn Tolleson Bio 

Shawn Tolleson graduated from North Carolina School of the Arts with a B.F.A in Theatre Directing and currently works as a director, writer and producer. 

As a director, she has worked extensively in the theatre, and written and directed three short films that have played film festivals worldwide. She directed the original production of Sam Shepard’s It Wasn’t Proust at the MET Theatre and is currently putting together two feature films that she will direct-- her adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry IV with Martin Sheen, Angela Bassett, Haley Joel Osmet and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and her original screenplay Yazoo Cryin' with Oscar-nominated Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda.) She is in post-production on a proof-of-concept short for Henry IV, which she shot with Martin Sheen for CAA indie packaging.

As a producer and production manager, she has worked on over 100 commercials, music videos and high fashion stills shoots. Credits include the Rolling Stones’ music video Rain Fall Down, Vogue and W Magazine cover shoots and spreads, and commercials for BMW, Coke and T-Mobile.

As a writer, she has sold a pitch to Warner Independent and pitched television all the way to network for a single-camera comedy.

Shawn’s IMDB link: http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0866122/
Shawn’s GRIT web site: http://www.gritfilm.org