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PROGRAMAÇÃO - Keynote Speaker

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ENCERRADA
OFFICIAL OPENING
15/10/2019
19h00
ROSANNE WELCH
Keynote Speaker
ROSANNE - KEYNOTE
Why Researching Screenwriters (has Always) Mattered

SUMMARY

To understand the world we have to understand its stories and to understand the world's stories we must understand the world's storytellers.
A century ago and longer those people would have been the novelists of any particular country but since the invention of film, the storytellers who reach the most people with their ideas and their lessons have been the screenwriters. My teaching philosophy is that: Words matter, Writers matter and Women writers matter. Therefore women writers shall be my focus. Why? Because they have been the far less researched and yet they are over half the population. We cannot tell the stories of the people until we know what stories the mothers have passed down to their children. Those are the stories that last. Now is the time to research screenwriters of all cultures and the stories they tell because people are finally recognizing the work of writers and appreciating how their favorite stories took shape on the page long before they were cast, or filmed, or edited. But also because streaming services make the stories of many cultures now available to a much wider world than ever before.

Rosanne Welch, Phd, serves as Executive Director of Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting where she created a set of History of Screenwriting courses (because ‘History of Film’ courses become ‘History of Directors’ courses and thereby ‘History of Great Men’) and teaches courses in One-Hour Drama.  Her television writing credits include Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences, ABCNEWS: Nightline and Touched by an Angel. Welch edited When Women Wrote Hollywood (2018), named runner up for the Susan Koppelman Award honoring the best anthology, multi-authored, or edited book in feminist studies by the Popular Culture Association. She co-edited Women in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia (named to both the 2018 Outstanding References Sources List and to the list of Best Historical Materials, by the American Library Association) and wrote Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Popular Culture. She is a research member of the Screenwriting Research Network. In 2016 Welch gave the talk “The Importance of Having a Female Voice in the Room” at the TEDxCPP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JFNsqKBRnA.

Executive Director, Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting

 

Editor of "When Women Wrote Hollywood" 

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Author of "America's Forgotten Founding Father: A Novel Based on the Life of Filippo Mazzei" Published as part of the Mentoris Project by the Barbera Foundation Buy Now - Print/Kindle Editions - More Info

 

Author of "Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture "

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