Lunch and Learn: What's Your Problem? – Shoring Up the End of Act I

When you purchase a ticket to this session, you’ll receive a $25 credit coupon toward another Story Summit class.

In this one-hour session, Carl Ellsworth will teach you why you don’t need any more problems—but your protagonist absolutely needs one—preferably a REALLY BIG, LIFE-ALTERING, EARTH-SHATTERING ONE! The “big problem” that visits your protagonist in the first act generates momentum, drive, and much-needed urgency in your script. In this Lunch and Learn, we’ll zero in on and simply define your big problem, because everything depends on it!

About Carl Ellsworth:

Quentin Tarantino famously declared, “The only two movies that came out last year that I would have paid to see in a movie theater were Freaky and that Russell Crowe movie Unhinged.” That “Russell Crowe movie” was penned by none other than Carl Ellsworth, a master of cinematic suspense whose screenplays keep audiences clenching their seats. Known for writing Unhinged, Red Eye, Disturbia, and the gripping 2009 reboot of The Last House on the Left, Ellsworth crafts stories where ordinary people are pushed to extraordinary—and often terrifying—limits.

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