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MEDIA RELEASE Veteran screenwriter Ron Osborn shares his tried and true techniques and insider tips to create winning screenplays, in Big Island Film Festival workshops, Saturday, May 25, 2013. Two screenwriting workshops, “What’s So Funny?” and “Ripped from the Newspapers,” will be held at The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii Promenade Ballroom. Limited space is available at […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Limited space is still available, but the registration deadline for Big Island Film Festival’s two professional filmmaking workshops is May 6. “Inside Pitch: How to pitch effectively in an evolving marketplace,” by producer Naketha Mattocks precedes Ron Osborn’s screenwriting workshop “It’s Alive: Breathing Life into Your Characters,” for a full day of education […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Professional filmmakers know great movies start with great stories, and to get from idea to big screen requires great skill in the art of “pitching.” This year, Big Island Film Festival is proud to present a new workshop “Inside Pitch” by Larger Than Life Productions’ Naketha Mattocks in addition to popular Ron Osborn’s […]

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Hollywood screenwriter Ron Osborn shares his special system and insider tips for transforming a big idea to the big screen at the Big Island Film Festival’s workshop “Idea to Screenplay: A Step by Step Process for Turning Your Idea into a Screenplay.” Class takes place Saturday, May 15 at Mauna Lani Bay Hotel and Bungalows […]

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MEDIA RELEASE The final deadline to submit films to the Big Island “Talk Story” Film Festival (BIFF) is Feb. 1, 2010. Acclaimed as one of the Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals by MovieMaker Magazine, the 5th annual BIFF is a good venue for filmmakers to introduce their independent narrative short or feature length movies in […]

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CELEBRITIES JOHN SAXON AND RON OSBORN HONORED IN PERSON During Big Island Film Festival May 14-17 WAIKOLOA, HAWAI‘I—The Fourth Annual Big Island “Talk Story” Film Festival celebrates independent narrative films in a number of ways: with no less than 48 film screenings, panel discussions, social gatherings, Hawaiian music concert, and an intensive “Screenplay in a […]

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