• English

Alan Arrivée

Sunday 16th March
14.00 – 15.00

What may seem like the situation of greatest artistic control for a filmmaker can turn into an on-set nightmare without successful preparation in both the stages of writing and pre-production. Even the act of directing something you yourself have written can be a greater challenge than directing a separate screenwriter’s work. Ironically, the single vision of the ‘auteur’ is often best achieved by splitting oneself in two and demanding the same clarity that the tradtional team of writer and director would amutomatically require. In this workshop we will examine methods and techniques that lead to the successful directing of one’s own writing. The goal here is that the final work make as much sense to the audience as to the artist, while retaining the advantages of unified vision that the writer/director has to offer.

Alan Arrivée

Alan Arrivée is a filmmaker, screenwriter and playwright currently living in Chicago. His short film ‘Silent Radio’ which he both wrote and directed was recently awarded Best Foreign Film and Best Cinematography at ÉCU The European Independent Film Festival 2007 in Paris and Best Short subject at the Ellensburg Film Festival in Washington. It has also received the 2007 Long Island International Film Expo’s Best Actor award (Eric Winzenried) and its Triple Play Award for Best Technical Integration (Cinematography, Original Score and Art Direction). It has been the Official Selection of numerous film festivals, including Staten Island and Breckenridge. Alan will receive story credit on the upcoming feature film ‘The Road to Empire’, directed by Michael Sibay. His plays have been performed in Chicago, Los Angeles and at various universities. He received his B.S. in Communication/Theatre at Northwestern University and is currently in NU’s MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage Program for which he also teaches ‘The Foundations of Screenwriting’.