Pappas, Rick

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Attorneys examine and discuss purchase agreements from the point of view of both the writer and producer/distributor. The issues that matter most to the writer will be stressed, including what to fight for when signing anoption agreement, and how to approach optioning from the "idea" to the "finished script" stages of the creative process. Two sides of audiocassette tape, about 57 minutes total.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of audio and video media and digital files of recordings of Austin Film Festival & Conference panel presentations from 1994-2008. The recordings document the proceedings of the Conference. Panel topics include On Writing, Up Close and Personal, The Art of the Pitch, and many others. Notable panelists include Michael Ian Black, Sydney Pollack, Shane Black, Larry Wilmore, Jim Dauterive, Mike Judge, Oliver Stone, Harold Ramos, Judd Apatow, Bill Broyles, Bill...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of audio and video media and digital files of recordings of Austin Film Festival & Conference panel presentations from 1994-2008. The recordings document the proceedings of the Conference. Panel topics include On Writing, Up Close and Personal, The Art of the Pitch, and many others. Notable panelists include Michael Ian Black, Sydney Pollack, Shane Black, Larry Wilmore, Jim Dauterive, Mike Judge, Oliver Stone, Harold Ramos, Judd Apatow, Bill Broyles, Bill...

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Lawyers use commas as liberally as Faulkner and Melville. When the sentence started you were in Paris, marveling at the magnificence of the Eiffel Tower. Nine or ten run-on clauses later, you finally run into the period, look out the window, and are greeted by downtown Sarajevo. And some of the words they come up with surely can't be English. In order to be an asset to yourself and your representation, you've got to know what it all really says.

1 audiocassette, sides A and B.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of audio and video media and digital files of recordings of Austin Film Festival & Conference panel presentations from 1994-2008. The recordings document the proceedings of the Conference. Panel topics include On Writing, Up Close and Personal, The Art of the Pitch, and many others. Notable panelists include Michael Ian Black, Sydney Pollack, Shane Black, Larry Wilmore, Jim Dauterive, Mike Judge, Oliver Stone, Harold Ramos, Judd Apatow, Bill Broyles, Bill...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of audio and video media and digital files of recordings of Austin Film Festival & Conference panel presentations from 1994-2008. The recordings document the proceedings of the Conference. Panel topics include On Writing, Up Close and Personal, The Art of the Pitch, and many others. Notable panelists include Michael Ian Black, Sydney Pollack, Shane Black, Larry Wilmore, Jim Dauterive, Mike Judge, Oliver Stone, Harold Ramos, Judd Apatow, Bill Broyles, Bill...