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.
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2010 Screenwriting Expo, Oct 7-10, Hilton Los Angeles Airport
Guests of Honor
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Guests of Honor appearing
this year include:
JOHN AUGUST SHANE BLACK DAVID MILCH
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| JOHN AUGUST |
 JOHN
AUGUST is the acclaimed writer of Tim Burton's Big Fish and the indie
hit Go. August has also collaborated with Burton on Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory, the animated film Corpse Bride, and the 2011 Disney
release Frankenweenie. August has also delved into action screenwriting
by having a hand in both Charlie's Angels films. His last project was
the lauded film The Nines, on which he made his directorial debut.
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| SHANE BLACK |
 SHANE
BLACK is one of the highest paid screenwriters in film history,
receiving large paychecks for his specs for The Long Kiss Goodnight ($4
million), The Last Boyscout ($1.75 million), and Last Action Hero ($1
million). He is also the mind behind the Lethal Weapon franchise, where
he sold the script for the first installment at only age 23. He
recently wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and is currently
working on Lethal Weapon 5.
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| DAVID MILCH |
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1982, David Milch, a lecturer in English literature at Yale University
and neophyte screenwriter, wrote a script for HILL STREET BLUES. The
episode, "Trial By Fury," premiered HILL STREET'S third season and won
the Emmy, the Writers Guild Award, and the Humanitas Prize for that
season. Milch's academic years were distinguished by achievements and
honors, in some ways foreshadowing his future success in television. He
graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Yale, where he won
the Tinker Prize for highest achievement in English. He then earned an
MFA, with distinction, from the Writer's Workshop at Iowa University.
During his nine-year teaching career at Yale, he assisted Robert Penn
Warren and Cleanth Brooks in the preparation of several college
textbooks on literature. In addition, Milch's poetry and fiction have
been published in various journals, including The Atlantic Monthly and
Southern Review. The success of his first script, however, marked the
end of his academic career and the beginning of a career in dramatic
television. He spent five seasons with HILL STREET BLUES, first as
Executive Story Editor and subsequently as Executive Producer. During
that time, Milch earned two more Writers Guild Awards, a second
Humanitas prize, and another Emmy. Milch's career gained momentum
throughout the 1980's with the addition of two other series to his
credits. In 1987, he created and Executive Produced the HILL STREET
BLUES spin-off BEVERLY HILLS BUNTZ, which featured NYPD BLUE co-star
Dennis Franz, and, in 1989, Milch served as Executive Producer of the
ABC series CAPITAL NEWS, starring Lloyd Bridges. In 1992, Milch
co-created the history-making police drama NYPD BLUE. The highly-rated
series set a record by garnering 26 Emmy Nominations its premier
season, winning the award for Best Drama Series in 1994-1995. Milch
took home Emmys for Best Writing in a Drama for the 1996-1997 and
1997-1998 seasons. The first season of NYPD BLUE also earned Milch a
Humanitas Prize and an Edgar Award for his screenwriting. While still
at the helm of NYPD BLUE, Milch created another police drama, BROOKLYN
SOUTH, co-authored, along with NYPD Blue producer Bill Clark, TRUE
BLUE: The Real Stories Behind NYPD Blue, and served as creative
consultant for Steven Bochco's MURDER ONE and TOTAL SECURITY. Since
forming Redboard Productions, Milch co-created BIG APPLE, a one-hour
drama set in New York City's FBI field office and DEADWOOD for HBO. The
hit series based on actual events in Deadwood, South Dakota, during the
1870's, has received 6 Emmy Awards, a Peabody and a Best Actor Golden
Globe for actor Ian McShane. He is currently in production on the new
drama LUCK, also for HBO, about the horse racing world. Milch was born
in Buffalo, New York, in 1945. His father was a prominent surgeon and
his mother was head of the Board of Education. His brother, Dr. Robert
Milch, also a surgeon, still resides in their hometown and is Medical
Director of Hospice Buffalo.
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| JENNIFER SALT |
 JENNIFER
SALT, the screenwriter of 'Eat Pray Love' and many episodes of
'Nip/Tuck,' had a long acting career, followed by great success as a
screenwriter, achieving the distinctions of both having a two-part
career and following in the footsteps of both parents, her actor mother
and Academy-Award-winning screenwriter father. Currently, Salt is
developing a script based on the Rachel DeWoskin book Foreign Babes in
Beijing, which focuses on contemporary ex-pat life in Beijing. She
wrote and produced eight seasons of the Golden Globe Award winning
series 'Nip/Tuck,' which earned her a Writers Guild Nomination for her
episode, 'Rhea Reynolds.' Before finding her way as a writer,
Salt was an actress on the stage, screen and television. She made her
Broadway debut in Oliver Hailey's Father's Day and began her film
career with a featured role in Midnight Cowboy, then starred in Robert
Altman's Brewster McCloud, Brian DePalma's 'Hi Mom' and 'Sisters,' Paul
Williams' 'The Revolutionary,' and Woody Allen's 'Play It Again
Sam.' After her key role as Eunice Tate in the groundbreaking
series 'Soap,' As a writer, her first series job was with 'Sins
of the City' for USA network, followed by 'Nero Wolfe Mysteries' for
A&E. Her father, Waldo Salt, survived the Hollywood blacklist
and went on to win two Academy Awards for his screenplays 'Midnight
Cowboy' and 'Coming Home,' as well as an Oscar nomination for
'Serpico.' She inherited the love of the stage from her mother,
actress Mary Davenport who was a member of the well-respected Actor's
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