FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 30, 2018 MEDIA CONTACT: Emily Dell Executive Director, ScreenCraft Writers Summit
[email protected] John Rhodes ScreenCraft Co-Founder
[email protected] The Atlanta Film Festival and ScreenCraft Announce Expanded Panelists & Sponsors for The ScreenCraft Writers Summit 2018 Los Angeles, CA & Atlanta, GA - The 2018 ScreenCraft Writers Summit, in partnership with the Atlanta Film Society, is excited to announce new panelists and sponsors! To take place at the 2018 Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF), the conference will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, the entertainment industry’s busiest city for film and television production, outpacing Los Angeles in 2017, production home for films such as Baby Driver, Avengers and Black Panther, and television shows such as Stranger Things, and of course FX’s Atlanta. The ScreenCraft Writers Summit runs from Friday, April 13th to Monday, April 16th, 2018. Newly confirmed speakers include: Geoffrey Fletcher (Oscar-winner, Precious), Diana Ossana (Oscar-winner, Brokeback Mountain), Eric Heisserer (Oscar-Nominee, Arrival), Doug Jung (Star Trek Beyond, Banshee), Malcolm Spellman (Empire), Keya Khayatian (Senior Literary Agent at UTA, clients wrote Stick It, Dallas Buyers Club, Brokeback Mountain, Serendipity, etc), Eric Fineman (Producer, Spiderman: Homecoming, Miracles From Heaven) Cate Adams (Vice President, Warner Brothers Pictures, The Nice Guys, Inherent Vice, Midnight Special), Mika Pryce, (Universal Pictures’ Get Out, Darkest Hour), JJ Klein (VP Scripted Originals, FX Network, Atlanta, American Crime Story: Versace), Hannah Ozer, (Literary Manager at Kaplan/Perrone), Tamara Chestna (Exec Producer, The Art of More on Crackle), Michael Lucker (Lilo & Stitch 2, 101 Dalmatians II, Vampire in Brooklyn), Jacob Krueger (The Matthew Shepard Story, founder and Instructor Write Your Screenplay) and more.