EDUCATION
CONCEPT TO COMPLETION PANELS
WRITING - 10/27 - 10:30am - 12pm
PRODUCING - 10/28 - 10:30am - 12pm
DIRECTING - 10/29 - 10:30am - 12pm
CAMERA - 10/30 - 10:30am - 12pm
AUDIO - 10/31 - 10:30am - 12pm
EDITING- 11/01 - 10:30am - 12pm
DISTRIBUTION - 11/02 - 10:30am - 12pm
After graduating college, with a BFA in theater and a minor in Radio/TV communications, Tracy performed as a standup comic and emcee for various clients. In 1983 Tracy opened Railway Video Productions in Winter Park, Florida. The production house was home to broadcast commercials, industrial projects, and was affiliated with several Emmy nominated productions. Tracy sold Railway in 1986 when he was offered a scholarship study position with The Second City Theater in Chicago. Tracy was employed at the theater from September 1986 - October 1989. While in Chicago, Tracy was cast in the David Mamet film, “THINGS CHANGE”, as a mob hitman (the film starred Don Amici, Joe Mantegna, and William H. Macy).
STORY TO SCREENPLAY
WORKSHOP
and
THE ACTORS SCREENPLAY
There has never been a better time to pitch your novel, short story, memoir, or idea for the big or small screen. Join screenwriter and script coach Brian Edgar for this engaging, interactive workshop, and begin to visualize your story for a feature film or new TV series. Learn what it takes to craft an industry-quality Logline, Screenplay or TV series Pilot—and put your ideas into motion!
Brian Edgar has written scripts for Al Pacino, Killer Films and HBO. Brian’s original screenplay 1066 is currently in development with De Warrenne Pictures. A graduate of the Columbia University MFA film program, Brian has taught Screenwriting at CUNY/Hunter College, Gotham Writers Workshop and Digital Film Academy in New York, and has presented workshops and panels at University of Paris/Nanterre, Rutgers University, Story Expo LA and the Orlando Film Festival. Co-founder of Story to Screenplay, Brian works with writers of all genres who aspire to bring their work to the silver or digital screens.
DIRECTING
KEVIN O'NEIL - was an actor for thirty years, ten years in Los Angeles, and he has been writing, directing, and producing for the last seventeen years. He has been a part of the Orlando Film Festival for ten years and his film “Undertaking” won the grand jury award for Best Short Film in the Orlando Film Festival in 2015. Currently his film “Screaming into the Wind” is in the film festival circuit, and he just wrapped his tenth short film called “Break” that we shot in Texas two months ago. He is currently in pre-production for my next film called “Branded” which is about sex trafficking and he is working with a company from India for my television series titled “Gone Dark.” He also have two other television series that he is pitching along with seven feature film screenplays.
CAMERA
BENJAMIN LOWELL - SOC, ICG - is a cameraman based in Florida and works extensively overseas. He graduated with a BA in Motion Picture Technology at the University of Central Florida. He’s worked on projects from commercials to features with filmmakers including Tony Scott, Spike Lee and Tom Hanks; including the Academy Award winning film “Monster” with Charlize Theron. He has also worked with Academy Award winning cinematographer Bob Richardson on multiple occasions.
Most recently, he camera operated and DP’d additional photography on the Documentary, “PRE FAB!”, the untold story of the beginning of the Beatles.
PRODUCER
SYLVIA CAMINER - is an Emmy Award-winning director and producer with more than 20 years of experience. Her new feature thriller, FOLLOW HER, which she produced/directed through her production company, DolGer Films, is currently streaming on Paramount+/Showtime. She's produced more than fifteen independent features including the Harvey Keitel WWII film, CHOSEN, THE DELI, BLUE MOON, LOVE N’ DANCING, GRACE and BREAKING POINT.
Sylvia also works in Non-Fiction and produced/directed the documentaries, AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART, about Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Rick Springfield; TANZANIA: A JOURNEY WITHIN, an odyssey that explores beauty and suffering in East Africa; and the hit Daytime travel series, SAMANTHA BROWN’S PLACES TO LOVE now in it’s sixth season.
DolGer Films, is actively developing several projects for Sylvia to direct including a screenplay based on the U.K. sci-fi time travel novel, AND THEN SHE VANISHED, which is Book 1 of a 7 book series. And the creature horror film, IT WALKS AMONG US.