Dan Gurskis is the writer of The Short Screenplay: Your Short Film from Concept to Production. He is Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Film Department at Brooklyn College-CUNY in New York. He received his B.A. from University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Brandeis University.
Dan is a member of the Writer's Guild of America and an Emmy-Award Winner, Cable Ace Nominee, Shubert Fellow, and MacDowell Colony Fellow. He is a screenwriter, playwright, producer, director with over 40 credits in feature films, telefilms, episodic television, and the theater and has worked for Columbia, Paramount, RKO, HBO, ABC, Showtime, Cinemax, and the USA Network.
To the video production students: now is your chance to ask Dan questions about working as screenwriter in the industry, specific questions you have about his book and how it relates to your crew's script, or general screenwriting questions to pick his brain. Please keep your questions short and to the point and he will do the best he can to answer them over the next week.
"The future of the Internet is up for grabs. Big corporations are lobbying Washington to turn the gateway to the Web into a toll road. Yet the public knows little about what's happening behind closed doors where the future of democracy's newest forum is being decided. If a few mega media giants own the content and control the delivery of radio, television, telephone services and the Internet, they'll make a killing and citizens will pay for it. America's ability to compete in the global marketplace, the unfettered exchange of ideas online, and broadband services that could improve quality of life for millions are at stake. Some say the very future of democracy itself may hang in the balance. In "The Net at Risk," Bill Moyers and journalist Rick Karr report on the wannabe "lords of the Internet" and examine how promises by the big tel-co companies of a super-high speed Internet in return for deregulation and tax breaks have gone unfulfilled while the public has paid the price. After the documentary, Moyers leads a discussion on media reform to explore the real-world impact of deregulation on communities and citizen participation in democracy."
As they say on The DailyKos: chew it up, spit it out...
Comments on All the President's Men should go here.
And, if you've finished reading "1984"...
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace. We want there to be peace. We want people to live in peace all around the world. I mean, our vision for peace extends beyond America. We believe in peace in South Asia. We believe in peace in the Middle East. We're going to be steadfast toward a vision that rejects terror and killing, and honors peace and hope. -- George W. Bush Read the entire speech from 6/18/02.
The Media Blog is meant to enable discussion and debate on topics from Prof. Liz LeDoux's media courses taught at Bentley College (Waltham, MA) within the English Department's Media & Culture Program. This spring students from ART 261: Introduction to Video Production, MC 323: Design and Time-Based Media, and MC 220: Principles of Media Production are up to bat to join the fray...
