Guests of Honor
are screenwriters whose work has shown exceptional artistic achievement
or who have had exceptional recent commercial success, especially in
the past year, and directors and producers of high achievements in film
and TV.
Stills From Guests
of Honor Movies:
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Past Guest of Honor have
Included:
William Goldman, Aaron Sorkin,
Nancy Meyers, John Cleese, Scott Frank, Steve Zaillian, Paul Haggis,
Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Damon Lindelof,
Carlton Cuae, Melissa Rosenberg, John August, Shane Black, Tony Gilroy,
Tim Kring. Bill Lawrence, Danny Cannon, Anthony Zuiker, Alex Kurzman
and Roberto Orci, James Manos Jr., Tina Andrews, John August,
Shane
Black, Phoenix Pictures President Mike Medavoy,
Kerry Kirkpatrick,
Stephen Susco, and others.
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2011
Screenwriting Expo, Sept. 15-18, Westin Los Angeles Airport
Guests
of Honor
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Guests
of
Honor appearing
this
year
include:
(More to be
announced -- watch this
page)
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| KURT WIMMER: |
 Kurt Wimmer is the writer of the
new. Upcoming “Total Recall” starring Colin Farrell. His other
writing credits include: 2010 Salt (written by); 2009 Law Abiding
Citizen (written by); 2008 Street Kings (screenplay); 2006 Ultraviolet
(at left, with Milla Jovovich, written by); 2003 The Recruit (written
by); 2002 Equilibrium (written by); 1999 The Thomas Crown Affair
(screenplay); 1998 Sphere (adaptation); 1996 The Wolves (story); 1995
Relative Fear; 1993 The Neighbor (writer); and 1992 Double Trouble
(story / written by). His directing credits include Ultraviolet,
Equilibrium, and One Tough Bastard, and he has a producer credit for
Law Abiding Citizen.
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| ALFRED GOUGH AND MILES MILLAR: |
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  Alfred Gough and Miles Millar are a
prolific writer/producer team with a string
of successful hits on both the large and small screens. They are
currently writing and developing an edgy remake of the 1970s classic
series “Charlie’s
Angels” for ABC. The one hour drama will be set in Miami. As
creators and
executive producers of the critically acclaimed action-adventure series
“Smallville,” Gough and Millar played a key role in making it the
number one
show in the history of the WB Television Network. The series, currently
shooting its tenth and final season, is the longest-running comic
book-based
series of all time.
On the feature
side, Gough and Millar are responsible for
writing hits such as “Spiderman 2” starring Toby Maguire, “Lethal
Weapon 4”
starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover and “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon
Emperor” for director Rob Cohen. They wrote the screenplay for the hit
action-comedy “Shanghai Noon,” starring Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson and
Lucy Liu
as well as the sequel “Shanghai Knights,” directed by David Dobkin.
Gough and Millar
met in the Peter Stark Producing Program at
the University of Southern California. After completing the
program, the
duo teamed up to form production company Millar/Gough Ink. The
company
has a first look deal with Walt Disney Studios and produced the hit
film “Hannah
Montana: The Movie,” based on the hit Disney Channel series starring
teen
phenomenon Miley Cyrus. The duo is currently writing and executive
producing
the feature “Upgrade” for Paramount with Michael Bay producing and the musical “Monster High” for
Universal Pictures.
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| SHANE SALERNO: |
 Shane
Salerno is
the co-writer and executive producer of "Savages, directed by Oliver
Stone, based on the acclaimed crime novel by Don Winslow.
"Savages" is currently shooting with an all-star, Oscar-winning
cast. Salerno is also the co-writer of the 3-D re-imagining of
"Fantastic Voyage," produced by James Cameron. Both films are set
to hit theaters in 2012.
He is one of the few
screenwriters to have found success in both film and television:
he’s the co-writer of #1 blockbusters "Armageddon" and "Shaft,"
and served as one of the writer/producers of "Hawaii Five O" during its
Golden Globe-nominated first season. Salerno is also one of the select
screenwriters to have sold both pitches and spec scripts to studios for
over $1 million.
Salerno is putting the finishing touches on a
seven-year labor of love, as the producer and director of "Salinger,"
the highly anticipated theatrical documentary on the mysterious life of
"Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger. The film features
interviews with friends, colleagues and members of Salinger’s
inner circle that have never spoken on the record before as well as
film footage, photographs and other material that has never been seen.
In
addition to his own writing, Salerno also runs The Story Factory a
company that produces the work of screenwriters and authors. The
Story Factory has projects in active development at multiple studios
and networks.
Detour Magazine voted Salerno “one of
Hollywood's true shapers of popular culture" and Fade In magazine
selected him as one of the "100 people you need to know in Hollywood" |
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ASHLEY MILLER AND ZACK STENTZ:
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Miller
and
Zack
Stentz have been writing partners for almost a
decade and were behind two of 2011's biggest blockbusters, X-Men: First Class and Thor. They also currently serve as
writers and producers on the Fox show Fringe.
Before
that,
they
broke in with the 2003 screenplay for the family film Agent Cody
Banks as well as being writers/co-producers on the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. |
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MARK FERGUS AND HAWK OSTBY: (Hawk Ostby was
"maybe" as of this posting)
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 MARK FERGUS and HAWK OSTBY co-wrote the
blockbuster “Iron Man” and were nominated for an Academy Award for
their work on the film “Children of Men”. In addition to
their work on “Cowboys and Aliens”, they’ve most recently completed a
live action version of the iconic animated masterpiece “Akira”, being
produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way; an adaptation of James
Patterson’s “Maximum Ride” for Arad Productions and Universal Pictures;
and they’ve just commenced work on the reboot of “Lara Croft: Tomb
Raider” for producer Graham King. MARK FERGUS directed Guy Pearce,
Piper Perabo, William Fichtner and J.K. Simmons in the thriller “First
Snow”, from an original script by Fergus & Ostby. Fergus grew
up steeped in the movies of John Ford and Steven Spielberg -- and to
meld those two sensibilities in “Cowboys & Aliens” was not only the
creative challenge of a lifetime, but also an immense honor. HAWK OSTBY hails from the
dangerous, fish-infested harpoon-happy slums of Oslo, Norway. Deprived
of the most basic filmed entertainment, he fled to the United States by
way of India, Malaysia and Singapore, in the late eighties. After
‘studying’ in Boston, Mr. Ostby was extradited to New York, where he
met co-writer and fellow conspirator, Mark Fergus. In 2010, Mr. Ostby
did not win the Pulitzer Prize, and was not recognized by the Nobel
Committee. He currently ekes out a Kaczynski-like existence deep in the
Green Mountains of Vermont, and only communicates with the outside
world through a complex network of bull frogs.
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| BEN RIPLEY: |
BEN RIPLEY , writer of 'Source
Code, grew up in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. A cum laude
graduate of Stanford University and an honors graduate of
the University of Southern California’s
School of Cinema-Television, he sold his first screenplay
to Fox in 2002. Since then he has
worked steadily in the genres of horror, thriller and
science fiction. His credits include Species
III, Species: The
Awakening and Source Code.
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| VLAS AND CHARLEY PARLAPANIDES: |
 VLAS
and
CHARLEY
PARLAPANIDES
are
a writing team with projects set up at Universal Pictures, Warner
Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Mandate
Pictures. They have been working professionally as writers for
nearly half a decade. ‘Immortals’
is their first produced studio credit. They previously wrote,
directed and produced the indie comedy ‘Everything
For
a
Reason,’
which premiered at the afi international film festival and was acquired
for distribution by The Shooting Gallery, producer of ‘Sling
Blade” and ‘You Can Count on Me’ Before
entering the entertainment industry Vlas worked on Oppenheimer's
Foreign Equity Desk while Charley attended Loyola Law School, where he
graduated in the top 15% of his class. The brothers are a part of
a large Greek-American family and originally hail from Seaside Park,
NJ. Growing up, they often spent summers in Patras, Greece and
took part in both Greek School and Greek Folk Dancing. (interestingly
enough they took part in these activities with comedian Demetri Martin,
whose father was the priest of their local Greek Orthodox
Church) Both brothers went on to study Economics and
Theatre in College. Vlas attended Villanova University while
Charley attended Swarthmore College. |
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