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  • Writer's Bootcamp
    The best screenwriting course there is. One night a week for two months. The first step for any aspiring filmmaker.

    New York Film Academy
    Attend the one month Acting Workshop, followed by the two month Directing Workshop. Both courses are full-time committments, Monday to Friday, 9 to 5. Recommended only after completion of Writer's Bootcamp.

    Hollywood Film Institute
    A two day Producing Workshop. Recommended only after completion of the Acting and Directing Workshops at the New York Film Academy. Congratulations, you're now ready to make a feature film.

Higher Consciousness Classes

  • The Monroe Institute
    A one week course, at the end of which you will leave, regardless of your belief system going in, with the absolute knowledge that your consciousness will survive physical body death. A life changing experience.

    Landmark Education
    Fifteen years of psychotherapy in 3 days. Reconciliation with the past. Also highly recommended.

    The Pathwork Foundation
    Transpersonal psychology with spiritualist leanings. Discovering the nature and source of one's own shadow. One-on-one work with a Helper over a number of years. Recommended only for those ready to make a substantial committment.

    EFT: Emotional Freedom Technique
    Remarkable, often seemingly miraculous healing technique, performed by simply tapping on various points throughout the body. Acupuncture without the needles. Instruction offered for free on web site.

    The Omega Institute

    New York Open Center

    The CG Jung Foundation

Higher Consciousness Resources

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SCREENWRITING FROM IOWA: BLAKE SNYDER: “The Caterpillar and the Butterfly”

Every story is “The Caterpillar and the Butterfly".

We start with a caterpillar living among the tall branches, eating green leaves, waxing “Hi!” to his caterpillar pals, little knowing that his is a profound deficiency. And then one day, an odd feeling comes over him that’s so scary, it’s like a freefall. Something strange is happening. And that something...is death. That’s what the cocoon stage is. As caterpillar becomes chrysalis, he dies. He, and everything he knows, is no more. Can you imagine? But when it seems like this purgatory will never end, when things look blackest, there’s another stirring: our hero sees light, and now he breaks through a weak spot in his prison, to sunlight and freedom. And what emerges is something he never dreamed of when this all began, something...amazing!

That’s every story.

-- Blake Snyder, Save the Cat! Strikes Back, 2009

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    I am now a writer, screenwriter, and producer of film. My work has been featured in print, online, and on radio and television throughout the world. I live in Hollywood, CA.