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"WRITING FOR HOLLYWOOD"

7/15/2003

Veteran Hollywood producer, Bryan Hickox and ACT ONE: Writing for Hollywood will combine resources to help train aspiring writers, directors and producers in developing cutting edge television and film projects. With plans slated to visit fourteen American cities with the two-day, Friday/Saturday entertainment seminar/workshop called The Conquering Hollywood Tour, Hickox will host the kick-off in his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida, September 26-27, 2003 at the Radisson Riverwalk Hotel.
With seven Emmys, over two hundred film festival awards, and seventy-plus movies produced to his credit, Hickox is teaming up with Barbara Nicolosi, the Executive Director of ACT ONE: Writing for Hollywood. Joining them for the inaugural seminar/workshop in Jacksonville will be top Hollywood Casting Director/Actor/Acting Coach Michael Stark and multiple award-winning Executive Producer/ Writer/ Director Richard Colla. Each of the seminar/workshop instructors have been selected for their candor, comprehensive knowledge and contemporary understanding of the industry, as it exists now and not twenty years ago.
This seminar tour distinguishes itself by giving attendees a “hands-on” approach to writing a salable, producible screenplay by ACT ONE: Writing for Hollywood; keys to aspiring actors from one of the most sought after casting directors in Hollywood; instructions on how to “pitch” a television or movie project to the networks or the studio by two of Hollywood’s most successful pitch masters, and; learning how Hollywood depicts people of faith, by radio talk-show host, Hollywood critic and best selling author Michael Medved. The seminar will also feature Hickox’s exclusive presentation on the current influence of morality on major film and television projects profitability. With the successful run of movies such as The Lord of the Rings, X-Men 2, Matrix Reloaded and Bruce Almighty, projects with morally conscious themes have been widely embraced by the American public and shown to be financially lucrative at the box office.
An added feature at the seminar will be a “Sneak Preview” screening of Hickox’s soon to be released feature film, co-produced with Oscar winning producer Debbie Allen.
The highly acclaimed, Entertainment Industry Seminars, will be the sponsor for the tour. Other cities to be slated for the 2003-2004 Conquering Hollywood Tour are Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., Dallas, Phoenix, Houston, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis, Chicago , Detroit and Honolulu. Reservations and information can be obtained by calling (904) 373-0218.

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