Euro Scriptchat Transcript - Guest Jeanne V Bowerman on Adaptations, 6th of October 2013

Tonight Jeanne V Bowerman talked about the process of adapting a novel to screen. The transcript is full of little gems and great tips from securing the rights to adapting the screenplay. Put your feet up and enjoy the read.

You can also read the transcript directly on Storify.

Moderated by Teenie Russell

Euro Scriptchat is joined by Jeanne V Bowerman on Sunday 6th October 2013

Have you ever thought of adapting a book to screen? Not sure where or how to begin?

Euro #Scriptchat is delighted to be joined by our very own Jeanne V Bowerman as we chat about Adapting a Novel to Screen.

Jeanne is the President of Impasse Productions and the Editor and Online Community Manager of Script Magazine, with a weekly column entitled Balls of Steel where she chronicles her fearless journey as a screenwriter as well as shares stories of other writers in the trenches. Beyond screenwriting, she writes teaches screenwriting webinars for The Writers Store.

A graduate of Cornell University, she’s written several spec scripts, including an Expo Screenplay Competition finalist script - the adaption of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name, with its author, Douglas A. Blackmon, senior national correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. The book — an exposé of how slavery didn’t end with the Civil War but was resurrected by white supremacists, businessmen and plantation owners and preserved for seven decades after the Emancipation Proclamation — has already dramatically revised conventional American history. It was a New York Times Best Seller, and has been reprinted more than a dozen times. A documentary based on the book appeared on PBS in 2012.

Her short film, Impasse, is in post production.

Website: Ramblings of a Recovered Insecureaholic jeannevb.com

Script Magazine Balls of Steel Column

Join us as we chat to @jeannevb on Sunday the 6th of October at 8pm BST!

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Guests include Script Mag's West Coast Editor, Joshua Stecker, and two of Scriptchat's treefort team, Jeanne Veillette Bowerman and Jamie Livingston.

The Vote is On - Get Jeanne on Film Courage!

Your treefort wants to bring the voice of screenwriters to the air waves, but we need your help.

David Branin and Karen Worden of Film Courage are having a contest to choose a special guest for their show on December 26 (noon PST), and our own Jeanne Veillette Bowerman @jeannevb is in the running.

The competition is fierce, and while no matter who wins, the show will definitely be great, we’d love to have you all represented by Jeanne’s passion and support for writers. 

Here’s how to vote:

1. Go to the Film Courage Facebook page and click “like”

http://www.facebook.com/filmcourage

2.  Now go to the OFFICIAL VOTING LINK here http://www.facebook.com/filmcourage/posts/146987972019383

 and enter Jeanne’s name in the comment section.

It’s that simple. 

But remember, please do not just post her name on their wall or the vote will not count.  It HAS to be in the OFFICIAL VOTING LINK http://www.facebook.com/filmcourage/posts/146987972019383

Thanks in advance from your treefort!  We want to close out 2010 with power, strength and the unity that only our community can provide!

World domination for screenwriters everywhere!