Hey all,

We're holding a screen-writing workshop with Alex Tse, the writer of
Watchmen, at The Asian American Writers' Workshop this Sunday. It's a
rare and intimate chance to pick his brain about how he went from a
student and a tempt to become a screenwriter for a major Hollywood
film. Please forward to anyone you think is interested. You can buy
tickets here: http://www.nycharities.org/events/EventLevels.aspx?ETID=1682

Thanks,
Ken Chen



http://www.nycharities.org/events/EventLevels.aspx?ETID=1682

From Student to Screenwriter
Screenwriting Workshop with Watchmen writer Alex Tse

Sunday, May 16, 2010
1-4 PM


The path of a screenwriter isn't always a straight one. Putting stuff
to the page is the only beginning of a long process. So how do you get
your screenplay noticed? In a one day workshop, Alex Tse, the
screenwriter behind  Watchmen, hands out tips on how to get your
script into the right hands and on screen.


@The Workshop
110-112 West 27th Street, Sixth Floor
Between 6th and 7th Avenues

$40 General /$36 Members



Alex Tse was born and raised in San Francisco, CA, left the nest and
attended Emerson College in Boston, MA, where, in addition to playing
NCAA Basketball, he discovered, or rather, admitted, his passion for
film.  After graduating in 1998, Tse made the pilgrimage to Los
Angeles, bouncing around from temp jobs to gigs producing and
promoting low budget music videos before an executive at Disney gave
him a break and set him up with a literary manager.

Besides Watchmen, Tse has several other projects with Warner Bros.
including another collaboration with Watchmen director Zack Snyder
adapting Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man and an adaptation of the
Anime Ninja Scroll, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.  Tse was also the
Writer and Co-Executive Producer of the Spike Lee directed Sucker Free
City, an original movie for Showtime for which he won a PEN Award.
Currently, Tse is writing two projects for Paramount Pictures: The
Winter of Frankie Machine for director Michael Mann, starring Robert
De Niro, and Battling Boy with Plan B.


ABOUT OUR WORKSHOPS

The Workshop prides itself on being a safe, nurturing space for
writers of all levels and ethnicities to develop artistically and
professionally. Novelists Min Jin Lee, Ed Lin, and Monique Truong
first began to find their ways as writers via our writing workshops
and literary enrichment programs. Our writing workshops are affordable
and intimate, a space where one builds friendships that often last
longer than the duration of the class. Former Poet Laureate of Queens,
Ishle Yi Park has said, "The Workshop nurtured and raised me. A home
away from home, a nest, a gathering place, a refuge, a resource.
Word."

How to Sign up for a Creative Writing Workshop

If you're interested in signing up for a writing workshop, you can do
so below or by calling us at (212) 494.0061. For one-day sessions, you
will pay the  non-refundable full price of the session. Unless
otherwise noted, workshops are at The Asian American Writers'
Workshop, 110-112 W 27th Street, 6th fl.


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http://www.aaww.org
110-112 W. 27th Street, Sixth Floor, NY, NY 10001
212.494.0061 tel.
212.494.0062 fax
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